Mark & Jane Johnson

Mark & Jane Johnson discuss their professional careers and the principles that helped them reach success.

List of principles:
1. Take the initiative. Make things happen by being creative and how you can make things happen, not just have everything that happen to you or what’s required of you
2. Be a pro-active communicator; don’t leave things to chance; communicate clearly, deliberately, and often
3. So much of effective leadership and management of organizations is about thinking future-back and outside-in. Lead from the future back and all investment and innovation should stem from being relentlessly outside-in and what really matters to the customer, now and in the future
4. Be authentic and error on transparency in all your dealings, even when it seems hard to do so
5. The underpinning of successful innovation is effective learning and the underpinning of effective learning is humility
6. The power of mentorship

Show Notes

Jane Clayson Johnson is an award-winning broadcast journalist widely known for her work over the last decade as a radio host on NPR.  Before that, Jane worked in television for many years… first at CBS News, hosting the network morning program, interviewing presidents and Hollywood stars. Many remember her high-profile interview with Martha Stewart… just before Martha went to prison. Jane was also on the air on 9/11.  Before CBS, Jane was a correspondent at ABC News, where she traveled the world from Kosovo to Indonesia, covering the biggest news stories of the day.  She started her career at KSL Television in Salt Lake City. 

Jane is an accomplished musician… she went to BYU on a violin performance scholarship. A popular speaker — Jane is also the best-selling author of two books. Her latest book, Silent Souls Weeping, is a candid look inside the core-shaking world of clinical depression. Jane and her husband, Mark Johnson live outside Boston.

Mark W. Johnson co-founded the strategy and innovation management consultancy Innosight with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen, in 2000 (which was acquired by the Huron Consulting Group in 2017). Mark advises CEOs and other leaders on how to envision the future, create new growth, and manage transformation. He is the co-author of the book Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth (April 2020), a manifesto for “Future Back” thinking and a hands-on guide to long-term planning, strategy development, and execution within established organizations. He is also the author of Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth (2018) and a co-author of Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future (2017), Mark has written and co-written numerous articles for a wide range of publications, including the McKinsey Award-winning “Reinventing Your Business Model” for Harvard Business Review, one of HBR’s 50 Best-Selling articles of all time. Prior to Innosight, Mark was a nuclear power-trained surface-warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. Mark and his wife Jane Clayson Johnson are the parents of five children and the grandparents of three.

Links:
Silent Souls Weeping
Lead from the Future

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