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

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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

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— 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

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

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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”

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— 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

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• 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

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Ethan Bernstein reveals the process for finding and seizing career opportunities you won’t regret.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The four quests driving every career transition

2) The exercise that keeps you relevant

3) The problem with job descriptions—and what to focus on instead

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— ABOUT ETHAN —

Ethan Bernstein is the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Developing Yourself as a Leader and Managing Human Capital courses. He spent five years at The Boston Consulting Group and two years in executive positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including Chief Strategy Officer and Deputy Assistant Director of Mortgage Markets. Bernstein earned his doctorate in management at Harvard, where he also received a JD/MBA.

• Book: Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career, with Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta

• Assessment: JobMoves.com

• Course: Developing Yourself as a Leader

• Email address: e@hbs.edu

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• Theory: Jobs to be Done

• Term: Story spine

• Book: Pooh's Little Instruction Book by Joan Powers, A. A. Milne, Ernest Shepard

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Megan Hellerer reveals the simple shifts that make your career and life feel more meaningful.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why many overachievers feel underfulfilled

2) The mindset that leads to fit and fulfillment

3) The key questions to ask before any decision

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— ABOUT MEGAN —

Megan Hellerer is a career coach and the author of DIRECTIONAL LIVING: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life. She has led hundreds of women, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to transform their lives by transforming their careers. After checking all the traditional boxes of success—graduating at the top of her class from Stanford University and spending eight years as a Google executive—and still deeply unhappy, she quit her great-on-paper job with no plan. Now her mission is to provide others with the support and guidance that she needed when she herself was struggling.

• Book: Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life

• Instagram: @meganhellerer

• Quiz: Are you an Underfulfilled Overachiever?

• Website: MeganHellerer.com

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• Article: “U.S. Engagement Hits 11-Year Low” by Jim Harter

• Book: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

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Rich Diviney reveals the hidden drivers of optimal performance: attributes.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The crucial difference between skills and attributes

2) When your “weaknesses” are “strengths”

3) A neuroscience hack for focus and overcoming stress

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— ABOUT RICH —

Rich Diviney developed his expertise in human performance during his over twenty-year career in the US Military, during which he completed more than thirteen deployments overseas and held multiple leadership positions.

While serving as the officer in charge of selection, assessment, and training for a specialized Navy SEAL command, Diviney was intimately involved in an extremely elite SEAL selection process, which required pairing down a group of exceptional candidates to a small cadre of the most elite optimal performers.

He also spearheaded the creation of a mental performance directorate that focused a strong emphasis on physical, mental, and emotional discipline to optimize individual and team performance, allowing operators to perform faster, longer, and more effectively in all environments—especially high-stress ones.

• Assessment: The Attributes Assessment (AYJ listeners get a 15% discount with the code AWESOME15)

• Website: TheAttributes.com

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• Book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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