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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The secret to building a team is to optimize the team for growth and inclusivity. This starts with being open to hybrid work, hiring people who can be productive wherever they are, having a plan for developing each employee no matter where they are on their personal S Curve of Learning, and then ensuring that your hybrid work place is inclusive. Your team is a collection of S Curves. Orient yourselves for growth by optimizing those curves.
Whitney Johnson
CEO, WLJ Advisors
Whitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 and Financial Times 2020 fastest-growing private company in America. One of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (#14) as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at helping individuals, teams and organizations become peak performers.
An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and author of the bestselling Build an A-Team (Harvard Business Press, 2018), a Financial Times and 800-CEO-READ Book of the Month, and Disrupt Yourself (Harvard Business Press, 2019), which Publisher’s Weekly called “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb.” In her books she codifies the S Curve of LearningTM and Seven Accelerants of Personal DisruptionTM which provide a systematic, data-driven approach to leadership development. Her validated S Curve InsightTM assessment monitors and tracks where individuals are in their growth and generates insights on how to accelerate organizational growth.
