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Disrupt Yourself

Disciplines:
business
personal development
career
innovation/disruption

Summary

Whitney Johnson's 2015 guide to applying disruptive innovation theory to personal career development — arguing that intentionally disrupting yourself (taking on new challenges that restart the learning S-curve) is the optimal career strategy.

Core Contribution

Creates the personal S-curve career framework — Disrupt Yourself translates Christensen's disruption S-curve into career advice, arguing that professionals should seek the low end of new learning curves rather than staying at the top of existing competency curves.

Historical Influences

Clayton Christensen S-curve model

Intellectual Lineage

Whitney Johnson Bibliomotion

Allied Works

The Innovator's Dilemma Reinventing You

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Career development literature

Intellectual Posterity

Disrupt Yourself Personal S-curve

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