025: Competing to Win with Dan Rust
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 June 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
“Competition” within an organization is often frowned upon, but “workplace provocateur” Dan Rust discusses the benefits and tactics associated with competition, politics and more.
You’ll learn:
1) When internal competitiveness can be positive for an organization
2) A secret tip for crushing your next yearly performance review
3) The massive benefits of bringing just a little bit more energy to each work day
About Dan
Dan Rust is the founder of Frontline Learning, an international publisher of corporate training resources. His award-winning keynote speeches and workshops focus on employee engagement, productivity, and career management. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s the author of Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
Items mentioned in the show:
- Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played? by Dan Rust
- Workplacepoker.com
- Workplace Poker blog
- Frontline Learning
- Mastery by George Leonard
- Evernote app
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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 McKitis. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, well, I think you're going to have some fun |
| 0:22.1 | with our next guest, Dan Russ. If you've ever said, |
| 0:25.6 | ugh, I hate politics or competitive personalities or stuff in that vein, Dan Russ really kind of reframes it and makes it fun. |
| 0:35.0 | So you're gonna walk away with some great takeaways including one |
| 0:38.0 | when internal competitiveness can really be positive for an organization, |
| 0:42.0 | two, a couple of secret tips for crushing your next |
| 0:45.4 | yearly performance review, and three, the massive benefits of bringing just a little bit |
| 0:50.9 | more energy to work each day. |
| 0:55.3 | And if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, things linked, you could find |
| 0:59.2 | that awesome at your job.com slash Epp 25. And if you want it faster in an email you can read two minutes or less |
| 1:06.4 | sign up for the gold nugget email list over there at awesome at your job |
| 1:10.7 | dot com. So a bit about Dan. |
| 1:13.7 | Dan. Russ is the founder of Frontline Learning |
| 1:16.6 | an international publisher of corporate trading resources. |
| 1:19.2 | His award winning keynote speeches and workshops |
| 1:21.6 | focus on employee engagement, productivity, and career management. |
| 1:24.9 | He lives in Minneapolis and is the author of workplace poker. |
| 1:28.8 | Are you playing the game or just getting played? |
| 1:32.2 | Here's Dan. |
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