Episodes

  • Whitney Johnson on the S-Curve of Disruption
    Dec 17 2025

    Whitney Johnson is the leading authority on disruption with nearly 2 million followers across social media. She's the CEO of Disruption Advisors, and former cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen. Whitney has been recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 management thinkers in the world, and her podcast "Disrupt Yourself" has ranked in the top .5% of listenership of all podcasts.


    Whitney and Brian discuss disruption and when we'll be able to accurately say that AI has disrupted this or that industry, how Whitney met the legendary Clayton Christensen and left her job as an award-winning Wall Street analyst to co-found the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Christensen, how growth is a dopamine management exercise, how she would disrupt the AI industry if gifted a check for $100 billion, and so much more.


    Follow Whitney:

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/

    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnsonwhitney/

    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/WhitneyJohnson

    Podcast - https://thedisruptionadvisors.com/podcast/


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    26 mins
  • Rita McGrath on Strategy in the era of AI
    Dec 8 2025

    Rita McGrath is one of the world's foremost experts on strategy & innovation, she's a strategy professor at Columbia Business School, and a longtime member of the Thinkers50 list, where she has consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world.


    Rita and Brian discuss how to think about the term AI Strategy and the term strategy itself, systems thinking, the history of disruption, her upcoming book, and the great modern tragedy of management thinking and academia. Rita and Brian also discuss whether we still have visionary leaders (and how to cultivate a more visionary mindset), how Rita would help one of the top AI companies win if given full rein, how she would reinvent Hollywood if she were named CEO of a major studio, and more.


    Follow Rita:

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritamcgrath

    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ritamcgrath.hub

    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/rgmcgrath


    Future Solving:

    🟦 Buy Autonomous Transformation book here - https://a.co/d/fDs7GSJ

    🟦 Bring Future Solving to your organization: https://bit.ly/48Y5Qvm

    🟦 Follow Brian on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianevergreen

    🟦 Follow Brian on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brian.evergreen

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    41 mins