Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

What's the secret to having a motivated, engaged, productive team? It's having a framework for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their particular learning curve.

• Provides a framework for leveraging unique talent at the enterprise level
• Brings disruptive theory from the realm of innovation into talent management

Audience: For executives, managers, and team leaders who want to break out of the old paradigm of control and learn how to allow their team to thrive.

Announced first printing: 20,000
Laydown goal: 4,000

ISBN-13: 9781633693647

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Publication Date: 05-01-2018

Pages: 208

Product Dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company, and an expert on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Thinkers50 ranked her among the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Johnson is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division, and an award-winning executive coach and adviser to CEOs. She is the author of several bestselling books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. You can reach her at wj@whitneyjohnson.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Being the Kind of Boss People love to Work For 1

1 The S Curve of Learning 13

2 The Seven Accelerants of Learning and Growth 31

3 Recruiting and Hiring 57

4 Managing the Hungry New Hire 87

5 Playing to Their Strengths 109

6 Managing Masters 129

7 Helping People Leap to New Learning Curves 147

Conclusion: Betting Started 167

Notes 173

Index 183

Acknowledgments 191

About the Author 193