HBR’s Whitney Johnson dares you to disrupt your life
Are you a woman with big dreams but you’re unsure how to implement them? If you’re in the market for some inspiration, and Whitney Johnson’s new book Dare, Dream, Do might help you bridge that gap.
Johnson, who kindly judged the Top Women in Tech list for Femme-o-Nomics last year, is a celebrated blogger for Harvard Business Review. She is also a former investment banker turned analyst and the founding partner of Rose Park Advisors, Johnson is easily the poster child for successful businesswomen daring to make their dreams a reality. Like many young women looking for their big break, Johnson started off small: a secretarial gig on Wall Street, with no background in finance, a little bit of confidence, and very big dreams.
Having her business acumen, hard work and determination to thank, Johnson steadily climbed to the top but soon realized that unlike her, many women lacked the courage to breathe life into their ambitions. Based on these conversations with women in all walks of life, Johnson started a blog in 2006, which ultimately inspired the book.
Many readers are thrilled that one of their favorite bloggers has expanded to book format, and lauds Dare, Dream, Do as “a must-read” for both men and women. While a male reader calls Johnson’s work “inspiring, motivating, and practical,” a female reader celebrates the book as a “a tremendous resource for women who are wondering how to live a fully realized life.”
Dare, Dream, Do offers a three-step model centered around daring to disrupt your life, allowing yourself space to dream, and finally learning how to do, executing your dreams and bringing them to life. The book also includes extraordinary stories of women, and a practical framework to realize your full potential.
What’s your dream? Tell us how you will disrupt your life @femmeonomics and follow Whitney if you don’t already @johnsonwhitney.
Category: Women in the World
What a wonderful post Iris, thank you. I, too, am a fan of Whitney’s book. BTW, procrastination power, as Whitney describes in her popular Harvard Business Review blog, is like allowing for fallow time for innovation … or a richer harvest of benefits in your life.
Allowing for such fallow time helps not only innovation, but also for a richer harvest of benefits in your life when you step into daring to dream and then do something greater with your life. Whitney pulls you into the adventure story that can be the next chapter of the life you were meant to lead by sprinkling the path of her well-earned advice and first-hand experience with fascinating stories from other who also took the Dare Dream Do Path that she advocates in her already wildly popular new book.
Whitney pulls you into the adventure story that can be the next chapter of the life you were meant to lead by sprinkling the path of her well-earned advice and first-hand experience with fascinating stories from other who also took the Dare Dream Do Path that she advocates in her already popular new book (I was honored to read an advance copy). This book is a great companion to Marcus Buckingham’s book, Find Your Strongest Life.
Whitney has been supporting women in living from their strength for some years now, in how she leads her life and how she encourages others… Consider this your encourager book and share it with kindred spirits as you step into the new scenes of the next chapter of your life, and pull in new characters to support your way. http://amzn.to/JaFwvq
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