How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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  • Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in The New York Times, Forbes, and Linkedin Learning. This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating.

    Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier.

    Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) Welcome!
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  • 1013: Harnessing the Six Motives that Shape Culture with Neel Doshi

    1013: Harnessing the Six Motives that Shape Culture with Neel Doshi
    Nov 21 2024

    Neel Doshi reveals how to build and sustain high performing cultures through total motivation.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) The six motives at the root of culture

    2) How to use metrics the wrong and right way

    3) The questions that kill motivation


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1013 for clickable versions of the links below.


    — ABOUT NEEL —

    Neel is the co-founder of Vega Factor and co-author of bestselling book, Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation. Previously, Neel was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, CTO and founding member of an award-winning tech startup, and employee of several mega-institutions. He studied engineering at MIT and received his MBA from Wharton. In his spare time, he’s an avid yet mediocre woodworker and photographer.

    • Book: Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation

    • Website: Factor.ai


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Study: “Poverty impedes cognitive function” by Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, and Jiaying Zhao

    • Book: Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman


    — THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —

    • Lingoda. Visit try.lingoda.com/Awesome and save up to 20% off your sign up fee! Plus, get an extra $25 off with the code AWESOME

    • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/beawesome

    • Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    41 mins
  • 1012: Triple Your Learning through Productive Failure with Dr. Manu Kapur

    1012: Triple Your Learning through Productive Failure with Dr. Manu Kapur
    Nov 18 2024
    Dr. Manu Kapur reveals how to maximize learning by intentionally designing for failure. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) Why to avoid explanations and experts (at first) 2) How to achieve the sweet spot of deep learning 3) Four ways to hack your motivation Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1012 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MANU — Dr. Manu Kapur is a world-renowned expert on learning and currently heads the Future Learning Initiative at ETH University Zurich. He divides his research time between ETH Zurich and the Singapore-ETH Center in Singapore. Dr. Kapur earned his doctorate in Education from Columbia University. Dr. Kapur is known for his pioneering research on intentionally designing for and learning from failure, demonstrating how this approach can lead to more effective learning compared to traditional methods. He frequently speaks at corporate and educational events and is often interviewed on learning-related subjects, including several appearances on NPR and two successful TEDX talks: Productive Failure and How Failure Drives Learning.• Book: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing (book site) • TED Talk: Productive Failure • TEDx Talk: How failure drives learning | Manu Kapur | TEDxHSGSalon • Website: ManuKapur.com • LinkedIn: Manu Kapur • Twitter/X: @ManuKapur24 • Instagram: drmanu_kapur — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts — THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —• Lingoda. Visit try.lingoda.com/Awesome and save up to 20% off your sign up fee! Plus, get an extra $25 off with the code AWESOME • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/beawesome• Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    42 mins
  • 1011: How to Defeat Overwhelm and Get SO MUCH Done in 15 Minutes with Sam Bennett

    1011: How to Defeat Overwhelm and Get SO MUCH Done in 15 Minutes with Sam Bennett
    Nov 14 2024

    Sam Bennett shows you how to transform the way you work through the magic of the 15 minute method.


    — YOU’LL LEARN —

    1) The impressive amount you can get done in 15 minutes

    2) How to deal with the overwhelm

    3) Why it’s worth “doing it grumpy”


    Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1011 for clickable versions of the links below.


    — ABOUT SAM —

    Sam Bennett is the author of Get It Done, Start Right Where You Are, and most recently, The 15-Minute Method: The Surprisingly Simple Art of Getting It Done. A writer, speaker, actor, and creativity/productivity specialist, she is the founder of TheRealSamBennett.com, a company committed to helping overwhelmed creatives and frustrated overachievers get unstuck.

    Sam is also a popular course instructor on LinkedIn Learning with over a million class participants worldwide. She lives in Connecticut, and you will find her online at www.TheRealSamBennett.com and 15MinuteMethod.com.

    • Book: The 15-Minute Method: The Surprisingly Simple Art of Getting It Done

    • Course: The Daily Practicum

    • Website: TheRealSamBennett.com


    — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

    • Past episode: 368: Upgrading Your Productivity through Accountability with Focusmate’s Taylor Jacobson

    • Book: Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

    • Tool: Levenger Legal Pads


    — THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —

    • Lingoda. Visit try.lingoda.com/Awesome and save up to 20% off your sign up fee! Plus, get an extra $25 off with the code AWESOME

    • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/beawesome

    • Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order!

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    36 mins

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