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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

072: Unleashing Simplicity with Lisa Bodell

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Bodell shares pro-tips on how to declutter our work lives to better focus on what truly matters.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Tools to eliminate unnecessary complexity in the workplace
  2. A methodology to reclaim 50% of your time spent in meetings
  3. The optimal attitude that gets your bosses to notice and value you


About Lisa

Lisa Bodell serves as a global council member of the World Economic Forum; and has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at Bloomberg, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, and many others. She has been rated as a top speaker at Google’s client events and is the author of the best-selling book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, which won the 2014 Axiom Best Business Book Award and was voted Best Business Book by USA Book News and Booz & Co. Her new book, Why Simple Wins, releases October 2016. Lisa is an advisor on the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists; and Novartis’ Diversity and Inclusion Board in Basel, Switzerland. Among her many academic activities, Lisa has taught innovation and creativity at both American and Fordham Universities.


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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. Hello and thanks for joining us here with episode 72.

0:25.0

If you find yourself with a lot of emails,

0:28.0

a lot of meetings in your day or day work day,

0:30.8

then my guest here at Lisa Bedell has got some answers for you.

0:36.0

She is talking about finding simplicity and making it happen.

0:40.0

So you're going to learn one tools to eliminate unnecessary complexity in the workplace, two, a methodology

0:45.8

to reclaim 50% of your time spent in meetings, and three, the optimal attitude that gets your

0:51.8

bosses to notice and value you. So if you want to check

0:55.2

out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to things mentioned, you'll find that over at

0:58.7

awesome at your job.com slash Epp72 or if you just like those takeaways all the faster in an email you could read in

1:06.3

under two minutes then sign up for the gold nugget email list over there at

1:11.0

awesome at your job. So here is a quick bit about Lisa

1:16.0

Badell serves as a global council member of the World Economic Forum and has

1:20.4

helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at Bloomberg,

1:23.7

Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, and many others.

1:26.5

She's been rated as a top speaker at Google's client events

1:29.9

and is the author of the best-selling book, Kill the Company,

1:32.8

and the status quo, Start an Innovation Revolution,

1:36.2

which won the 2014 Axiom Best Business Book Award

1:39.7

and was voted Best Business Book by USA Book News and Boos and Co.

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