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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

054: Defining and Achieving "Success" with G. Richard Shell

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Professor G. Richard Shell discusses how to find happiness in your work. You’ll Learn: The importance of changing your metaphor for success How to find happiness in every domain of your life – particularly careers How to self-monitor progress to land in a place of achievement AND fulfilment (instead of a crisis) About Richard G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of Business. There, he created and teaches the famous Success Course. His books include the best-selling Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. He is director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop.   View show notes, transcript, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep54 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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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.

0:16.0

Hello, hello and welcome to episode 54 here. I think you're in for such a treat. We've got a deep

0:29.4

thinker, a source of wisdom that I think will be extremely applicable for listeners here because as I email

0:37.3

folks please holler at me at awesome at your job.com it's pretty clear that we've got a number of ambitious motivated hard charging winner

0:46.3

success driven type folks in the crowd and it's so fun to get to serve you and hear

0:51.4

from you and what you're up to and the cool achievements and such.

0:54.7

And so I've got a guest here who works with those sorts of folks all the time at the Wharton Business

1:00.0

School teaching the famous success course there and get some real perspective on

1:06.2

on what success means. His name is Richard Shell and you're in for a great treat.

1:10.5

So you're going to learn one, the importance of changing your

1:12.7

metaphor for success. Two, how to find fulfillment in every domain of your life,

1:16.7

particularly we'll talk about careers here, and three, how to self-monitor

1:20.9

progress to land in that sweet spot where you've got both achievement and fulfillment and not land in a crisis.

1:28.7

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to things mentioned,

1:32.0

you'll find that over at awesome at your

1:34.0

job.com slash Epp54. Here's a bit about Richard. A G Richard Shell is the Thomas

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Garrity professor of legal studies, business ethics, and management at the

1:44.7

Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

1:47.9

There he created and teaches the famous success course.

1:50.7

His books include the best-selling Springboard, launching your personal search for success,

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