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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

101: Optimal Decision-Making with Pat McDaniel

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Pat McDaniel shares some of his wisest insights about decision-making fallacies and victories.


You’ll Learn:

  1. A 5-step process to better decision making
  2. Unexpected hidden influences that affect your decision making
  3. How to maintain an openness to contrary information


About Pat

Pat McDaniel is the founder of WiseInsights.net a website dedicated to helping motivated but weary people keep moving forward by finding the smartest path toward their success.  Pat is passionate about sharing his story about how he kept hitting the wall, got mad, and was eventually ready to change how he made decisions, so that he could be on the right path.

Pat has a highly diverse background. He has been a long-time student (made it through the 19th grade) a CPA, a pastor and church planter, a sales manager, a search engine marketing strategist working in a marketing agency, an entrepreneur who started his own business from scratch, and an author of the Ebook: 5 Step Process to Making Better More Successful Decisions.


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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.

0:16.1

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 101 with Pat McDaniel and I

0:27.6

think that was a very wise decision you made to choose to listen to this and

0:31.4

Pat McDaniel is going to talk about all sorts of wisdom you need to have when it comes to decision-making, not falling for any fallacies and such.

0:39.7

And I hope this will serve you well in this happy new year 2017 if you're making some decisions

0:45.6

about New Year's resolutions or strategic directions that you're going to

0:49.5

pursue in your career or at your company.

0:53.0

So you're going to learn, one, a five-step process to better decision-making.

0:57.0

Two, unexpected hidden influences that affect your decision-making. And three, how to maintain an openness to new or contrary

1:07.0

information.

1:08.1

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

1:12.0

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com

1:15.0

slash EP

1:18.0

and the number is 101.

1:20.0

And while you're there, I hope you check out

1:22.0

some of the other cool stuff, such as our 10 days to

1:23.8

winning at work free email course or the Gold Nugget email summaries of each of the guests and their

1:30.9

insights and other cool stuff like my training programs.

1:35.0

Would love to meet you in person if you book that and so much more.

1:38.0

So check out awesome at your job.com while you're checking out the show notes transcripts etc at also at your

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