How and When to Disrupt Your Career, and Yourself (Quick Study)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2020
- If you’re comfortable but bored at your current position, you’re in the danger zone. Here are some ways to keep growing without leaving your company.
Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and author of "Disrupt Yourself", says we give a lot of airtime to building disruptive products and services, to buying and/or investing in disruptive companies, and we should. Both are vital engines of economic growth. But, the most overlooked engine of growth is the individual. If you are really looking to move the world forward, begin by innovating on the inside, and disrupt yourself.
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I've thought about this topic quite a lot and I came to a similar conclusion. I think that when you can teach someone about every aspect of your role then you're ready to hand it to them and move on.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know of a way to log back into an Instagram account?
I somehow lost the login password. I would love any help you can offer me.
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Some people think that is a threat to their place at the organization..
That last point, that universe sort of nudges you, pushes you; is such an optimistic way of looking at it. Never thought this way before. Very nice and brilliant video!!✨
That’s exactly what the universe did for me.
Happy for you
A common theme throughout life
Exactly how I’m feeling right now. Glad I found this! Im falling ill 🤧 more than often, have lost all motivation in the work I love, and not grooming the people who I lead. All of this is adding upto massive amounts of guilt and my credibility is taking a hit. Guess it’s time to have this conversation
Seeking out a mentor is a powerful boost on the journey.
It has helped me accelerate learning, have challenging conversations, and network to find those opportunities. Also, a word of caution on being constantly challenged. It might lead to burnout if not managed actively.
How did you find your mentor? I have a lot of trust issues due to backstabbers in the past
@@acash93 It's harsh for sure. Not saying it's smooth sailing, but as they say, you got to take a leap of faith. You can hedge against the risk by creating a base before signing up as a mentee for example agreeing on some rules of engagement.
You’re absolutely correct this is very helpful to see the present truth to your matter! I needed this
This is great advice! When learning slows down it’s time to get to the bottom of the S curve!
This is the best thing that I've learnt today. Thank you so much.
Such an important conversation to have - especially with yourself. Being honest with yourself is the best thing you can do 👍
I'm saving this one. You perfectly described how I am feeing which lead to me taking another job outside of my current job. No future roles for me to move to so I moved on.
Huh... I just left my old company where I was at the top of the S curve and now in a new one where I'm clearly at the bottom and everything feels challending.
Hearing about this "S curve" notion totally makes sense. Thanks for making this video. I feel a lot more confident now.
Excellent video! Exactly why I left a job I really loved, they wouldn't let me learn more and challenge myself within the company, so I was getting utterly bored doing tasks I by then had come to really master to the point it felt as though I could have performed these while asleep!
these words have been exactly how I have felt with my previous company. great people, great work life balance, good pay, great job overall, except I was getting deathly bored. Looking back I should have asked to do different roles within the organization but didn't want to do more work because of my complacency, so I chose to leave, which in turn was probably more work to do.
This really hit me and it quite help. Million thanks for your suggestion.
Good one. Need to make sure, your strength areas identified and they can help you find a better one... of your choice.
Thank you for this talk. Glad that I did the right thing. Having managers who can’t recognize the need for employees to grow is awful, esp those who only focus on their own development, as if employees aren’t the same human being… Talking about equality… And some managers don’t let grow but push/press down instead.
God. This is divine intervention. I so needed to hear this.
I liked this video. It is related to my experience. I left my job bec. there is no growth or opportunities inside the organization. This made me suck! Then I'm finding a better opportunity outside the organization.
Sometimes the most scariest thing will lead you to beautiful destination.
Great explanation of S curve very pertinent. Great way to promote the book, I am buying it today !!
This presentation greatly resonated with me. You provided excellence suggestions.
Great advice! Thanks for sharing.
My chosen career, SECOND career that is, is a" NEVER knowing it all" because the laws keep changing. I've been at it and learning, and still don't know it all and never will. The people I work with have been at it for decades. They ARE helpful, but I can't help but feel as if I'm not enough and maybe nver will be.
I need an "atta boy" but will never receive it. I have to do so much in the 8-9 hour day, dealing with personalities, and flow of information that I want to scream. It's the various personalities that actually piss me off. People can be so rude, especially when you are trying to help them!!!
Brilliant and well formulated idea and process. I definitely have seen several S curves in my life and I look forward to many more 😃 This gives me some hints from one of favorite books too, the alchemist.
Fantastic video. I so relate to that video. TH-cam you’re smart and sometimes it’s ok that you’re listening in! 😄
The way my old company messed me about when I had reached this point of boredom and tried to relocate to a different, more international office (over a year of false promises and veiled threats) broke my connection with the concept of a job and especially my emotional connection to the job that I had loved. More importantly it obliterated a sense of 'naivety' (I know that the corporate world is not a fairy tale but I think people need to have some faith in what they are a part of. I don't even have faith in what I hear from my lecturers).
I work for myself now and while I am good at what I do, I have never felt the excitement I had before.
I think it's important to remember that your boss or supervisor might not always have your interests at heart and may actually be actively working to sabotage any plans. As a professional or employee you need to identify someone to trust with your professional / career strategy
It's so swift but relevant, thanks! ♥️
Thanks. Jumping and climbing are great metaphors. If you're ready, starting your own business could be a way for learning even more and faster.
The introduction truely reflects my current state of work.
So jumping after 10 years, I want to learn other things!!!! Scared but excited 🤩
Very great ideas to implement!
That's true.When one met this changing point.Eyes wetting, hearing your lecture.Who get,who got.Million thanks,sir. Prof.
Brilliant advise...thank you
Super interesting…….insightful……and damn clear thinking.
This is a bitter conceptual pill to swallow for professionals in fields that have S Curves that evolve over a decade of schooling, residency, fellowship, etc. But, love the perspective regardless. Thanks for this one, HBR.
Great ideas for my research into disruption
It is interesting to know the concept of S-curve. I might get into the top of S-curve for current org. Need to re-define our mission and think about the innovative and disruptive way of contribution.
It Happened, need a courage to step out from the comfort zone and not an easy things to do, hope you who still find the meaning in life be stronger and grateful for whatever you have, life is not easier but we are getting stronger.
This is so informative 💡Thank you
Oh my... I badly needed this...
Great point!
Love what I do and the company I work for. Tons of upside…Only challenge is my Manager is not my advocate.
Thank you, HBR!
Thanks. Great metaphor for jumping and climbing. A solution could be creating your own business to learn even more and faster, if ready.
This cut Straight to my soul.
Wow! Great video!
The S-Curve aka second curve or the sigmoid curve is beautifully explained in the book "The empty raincoat". Other concepts like donut principle are also explained in detail in that book. Anybody interested should definitely read it.
Thanks!
Explained good thank you
wow the last one minute was too intense....thanks for sharing the insights
Ooh.. This is A+ stuff!
Great, I resigned few days back from my current organization, serving notice period. Time for new S curve.
Inspiring!
S curve is a critical path to decide to choose like in Covid situation.
Just in time 😉 , wow
I wish, it was that simple and ideal situation.
I wish I would’ve done this in my previous role and just stayed at my old job versus going to a new company. It hasn’t been a pleasant experience and just doesn’t feel like the best fit.
Excellent
Very nice.
Gracias!
I think the challenge here is often there is not an incentive to jump on a new S curve. If the culture of the company rewards you for sitting in your position at no risk, many would take that and have enough leisure to consider this a good option. The responsibility for the company should be to gently coerce people to move roles within a certain time frame. And if they don't, the 'gentle' becomes progressively less gentle.
I knew Chevron and few other corporations does that. They hire MBAs and put them in any department to run as entrepreneurs using your business skills.
Yes!
Wow this is me at this moment in my career
Amazing, how true is that? that happened naturally.
Just start working for yourself like this lady did
"You love this company, you believe in the mission", thank god I had already drank my coffee - that stuff would've burst from my mouth to cover my screen otherwise.
Oh my gosh THIS IS ME right now.
Seems like the old fashion expression of getting out of the comfort zone, BUT without loosing connection with it!
I've just come to this crossroads myself, I would add, don't let your current employee be the decider of what your ceiling is. If you're willing to take the risk, make that leap and start that S curve once again.
Very useful
Chingon., Gracias
If you love your company are you getting so anxious on Monday that you are "sick?" because of work? That is absolutely a sign.
Jumping to a new S-curve soon, thanks to this video. 🙌
🙌!!
I’m on this circumtances
I just took a jump a week back!!!
Good luck
This is exactly how I'm feeling right now
Do you have more suggestions about how manage the how and when to jump? i decide to change my job, but i not sure if i have to wait to the end of the current project or just start look for a new job and do it right now. How can i know if is a good time to do it?
Good question!
Here are some more detailed articles by this author about self-disruption:
hbr.org/podcast/2015/10/disrupt-your-career-and-yourself
hbr.org/2012/07/disrupt-yourself-3
The universe not only nudged me, it kicked me in the balls on the way out. I’ve never been more greatful
What if you feel that you constantly in the beginning? Everytime you begin to go into the "sweet spot", you need to learn something new, or there is a change. This is how I personally feel most of the time in tech right now. I am a professional software developer.
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So right and so right timing.. can I forward this video to my boss ? 😂😂
Can you really go back to the very bottom of the S-curve? Unless there is a complete change in career, but even then, with a certain work experience there are always skills to build on, so the jump will rather be to the middle part, right? From the employers perspective, I would not want to promote someone to a job that they will need months to figure out the basics of...
I myself changed my employer after 10 years and found myself just below the plateau and reached it again after about 1 year... Feels stupid.
Then I was offered a very new position, but I felt I was too low on that S-curve and did not completely want to leave my plateau, because there are some aspects of my current job that i don't want to leave behind.
It's not always that easy to find a suitable new S-curve, I think. But this video opened my eyes nonetheless!
Wonderful, S curve, thanks dear. #SafiullahWasiullah
Crazy timing. I will speak to my law firm boss tomorrow to switch from corporate to litigation.
So how did it go? Hope it went well.
@@ivan-nm1xn It went decently. He asked me to wait for a while though as there are no vacancies in the litigation. Fingers crossed.
Or we can say that when reach to top skill of that work and feel enough for you and you want more progess further like the end of road we have to choose old or new.But new may better or worse than old place.So enthutism reducing, productivity lesser, ansomnia which one can notice.
Dream still dream,if not be done.
One question: How do we justify that the move is good for the company and we will help them solve the problems when a considerable amount of learning is involved? Use of transferable skills or else?
I believe the reference to jump to a new S-curve doesn’t necessarily mean you’re starting from the bottom. Imagine you’re already a master in what you’re doing, refreshing your S-curve would be to utilize your gained/available skills into something more challenging, this way we will continue to learn and further master ourselves and move on to next then next then next S-curve. That means the S-curve will look like a stairs shaped line on the chart.
@@fadiajouli4779 that makes sense, thanks. Of course in addition to that, the experience or in other words 'soft skills' would help on the new role or challenge as well. Got some thinking to do!
Wisdom at 6:15!
I jumped ☺️
I'm going to give Joint Entrance Exam(JEE) for B-TECH. can you suggest me a source which can give me the details about what's going to be in there
"There’s no test like production." author ~ "Unknown"
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Scary alpha lady. Lots of words but not much content. But the gold is in the comments... This subject clearly resonates with folks.
What if you are comfortable in your job but not on the plateau yet, one fine day you find a disruptive opportunity with new growth - do you stay on the journey to finish the S curve or move
Amazing
Here's the S-curve in one sentence: "A pattern of slow initial progress, followed by rapid skill acquisition, and finally a plateau of expertise."
One should never invite disruption in one’s life. These are used to find out dancers in a company, even if are a church going FROG who knows only jumping. Rather then inviting disruption try meeting new people and talk to people.
At this time no way to choose hold on your curve well otherwise you'll fall down the curve.
This is completely irrelevant but, what kind of music is that at around 3:00?
What if you're in a state where after the first curve, you fall into a difficult second curve that doesn't allow for mastery and induces unnecessary stress and nausea?
Her first statement about people waking up and saying they have to work; what if that feeling is substantial dislike for the work? The team, mission, and boss are good, but the job is nauseating?
Then change jobs through tears and depression and keep searching and keep trying to be positive through the job search, it will take two-three months but once you are out, you won't remember the nauseating experience of the old job and you'll only regret why you didn't start the job search sooner. Fingers crossed, you clearly don't belong there and have to leave asap for your mental health xx
@@2011ekon I actually did do that and I'm at such a better place now! Thanks!
Before that you must have a very strong self-awareness
3:27 - when your brain is so high that you start to die... I can feel you too (Four Twenty)
I believe in that hypothesis, the universe will just give you that nudge when you really need to jump to another S-curve.