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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1001: Transforming Relationships by Overcoming Self-Deception with The Arbinger Institute’s Mitch Warner

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mitch Warner reveals how we end up sabotaging ourselves and how you can overcome these obstacles to strengthen relationships and your leadership as a whole. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How “the box” limits your perspective and opportunities 

2) The tell-tale signs self-deception 

3) How to make people feel safe to share their perspectives 


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— ABOUT MITCH — 

Mitch Warner is a bestselling author and Arbinger managing partner with a background in healthcare and organizational turnaround. Mitch is the co-author of Arbinger’s latest bestseller, The Outward Mindset. He writes frequently on the practical effects of mindset at the individual and organizational levels as well as the role of leadership in transforming organizational culture and results. He is an expert on mindset and culture change, leadership, strategy, performance management, organizational turnaround, and conflict resolution.

Mitch is a sought-after speaker to organizations across a range of industries, bringing his practical experience to bear for leaders of corporations, governments, and organizations across the globe. Specific clients include NASA, Citrix, Aflac, the U.S. Army and Air Force, the Treasury Executive Institute, and Intermountain Healthcare. Mitch carries his first-hand perspective as a proven leader into his speeches and facilitation, dynamically bringing Arbinger’s concepts and tools to life through his powerful stories and hands-on experience. His audiences leave inspired to improve and equipped with a practical roadmap to effect immediate change.

• Book: Leadership and Self-Deception, Fourth Edition: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results by The Arbinger Institute 

• Website: Arbinger.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace 

• Book: Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the way that we work when we're at our very best selves. We're just honest. We seep each other as people were outward. We take responsibility

0:16.2

and to the degree that you can uncover the places where you haven't been telling the truth

0:21.2

about how you've been creating challenges you haven't seen. That move will do more to set you

0:27.4

free to do the kinds of things that you want to see in your life that will propel

0:31.6

your success in any relationship, then in my experience any other work that you can do.

0:36.4

So just jump in, take the next step.

0:39.6

The box is this metaphor for that distorted way that I've come to see the world that gives me

0:46.3

justification for my own self-betraals, the way I've chosen to see other people falsely.

0:51.5

So now I've got this distorted view of you and me. It's two-sided. I can't

0:56.8

see you in a less-than way without seeing myself as superior or vice versa if I get

1:02.2

justification that way.

1:04.0

That's Mitch Warner.

1:10.0

He's the Arbinger Institute's managing partner with a background in health care and organizational turnaround.

1:15.0

He writes frequently on the practical effects of mindset and how leadership transforms organizational

1:20.0

culture and results.

1:22.0

His audience is inspired to improve and equipped with a

1:24.5

practical roadmap to affect immediate change. Today he's sharing some of the

1:28.5

transformative wisdom he's seen at work with the Arbager Institute and found in the classic book, Leadership and Self-Dception,

1:36.3

one of my all-time faves.

1:37.3

So you'll learn one, how The Box limits your perspective and opportunities, two, the

1:42.4

tell-tale signs of self-deception,

1:44.4

and three, how to make people feel safe

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