007: Putting the Wisdom of the Centuries to Work with Jocelyn Davis

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What does Machiavelli have to teach us about management skills? How can the works of Carl Jung make us better employees? Jocelyn Davis dusts off 2,5000 years of literature to show us that the classics aren’t just for history buffs, but can help with personal improvement in today’s workplace.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) What a famed psychologist would do with today’s standard personality tests.

2) A tyrant’s surprising tips on being a great boss.

3) What Frankenstein can teach us about leadership.

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— ABOUT JOCELYN —

Jocelyn Davis is an author and consultant with decades of experience in the corporate learning industry. Before founding her company, Seven Learning, she was head of R&D for The Forum Corporation, a global leadership development firm. In addition to her most recent book, The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers, she is co-author of Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution and has published widely on leadership, strategy execution, and workplace learning.She holds an M.A. in philosophy and is currently working on a master’s degree in Eastern classics. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and daughter.

• Jocelyn's book: The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers

• Jocelyn's book: Strategic Speed

• Jocelyn’s website: jocelynrdavis.Jocelynrdavis.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Organization: The Forum Corporation

• Tool: Myers-Briggs personality type indicator

• Book: Psychological Types by Carl Jung

• Example: Strong communication in Pericles’ Funeral Oration

• Example: Effective communication in ‘The Gettysburg Address’ by Abraham Lincoln

• Book: The Prince by Machiavelli and his knack for “the soft stuff”

• Book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Book: Bhagavad-Gita

• Book: Yoga Vasistha

• Website: The School of Life (theschooloflife.com)

• Website: Book of Life (www.bookoflife.org)

• Example: The Five Phases of Change from The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete Lekitis.
0:16.4	All right, well, I'm super excited to be introducing
0:19.3	Jocelyn Davis here on the seventh episode
0:22.2	of the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.
0:24.3	Jostlin's got a great new book that releases today.
0:27.8	It's called The Great's on Leadership Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers.
0:32.3	And this is so fun, with her about this and it's all
0:35.6	about what the greats have to say about leadership with the great thinkers from
0:39.7	the great books throughout the centuries whether that's Plato or Mary Shelley with
0:44.9	Frankenstein or Carl Jung, all of them. So we've got a good smorgasbord
0:50.1	there of insight here and it was a lot of fun chatting with her clearly
0:53.8	towering intellect made me think of some of the smart folks in my book club
0:58.7	shout out to A and O, A also of Orthodoxy, what what?
1:03.0	And so that was fun just to have a chat through these books.
1:06.0	So there are many just fantastic nuggets of inspiration
1:09.3	and insight, kind of a smorgasborg, if you will.
1:11.8	Some of the tops I'd highlight up front are one
1:14.4	Jocelyn's biggest performance takeaway she gained from serving for decades as a senior
1:19.2	executive in a global leadership development firm to Machiavelli's surprisingly soft side
1:25.2	when it comes to some of his change management advice.
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