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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

102: #Hustle with Andrew Hermalyn

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Andrew discusses how collecting letters and business cards from CEOs contributed to his quick rise to Executive Vice-President.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Key lessons repeated among 500 letters from CEOs
  2. How to change “I don’t know” from a negative to a positive
  3. Effective approaches for mentor relationship building


About Andrew

Andrew is a founding member of 2U and head of university partnership and corporate development. He is uniquely good at relationship management and has had the quirky hobby of writing letters to CEO’s and collecting business cards since childhood. In fact, it was through that hobby that he got his first job at 2U – as an undergraduate college student. His personal motto is #Hustle.


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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.

0:16.2

Well, hello, and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 102 with Andrew

0:26.5

Hermann. You're going to hear some pretty cool stories from a guy who's been

0:31.1

collecting letters and business cards from CEOs and founders since he was a kid and it's pretty cool.

0:37.0

So you're going to learn one, key lessons repeated among 500 letters from CEOs.

0:42.0

Two, how to change I don't know from an among 500 letters from CEOs.

0:42.6

Two, how to change I don't know from a negative

0:45.5

to a positive and three, effective approaches

0:48.7

for mentor relationship building.

0:50.6

So if you want to check out the show notes,

0:52.3

the transcripts, or the links to items

0:53.9

mentioned you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 102 and while

0:59.7

you're over there at awesome at your job.com I recommend you check out some of the cool stuff you have

1:03.4

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1:05.2

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1:07.8

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1:10.0

which get the wisdom of the guests distilled in a quick email you can read in

1:14.8

under two minutes so check out the goods over at awesome at your job.com

1:18.3

so here is a quick bit about Andrew Andrew is a founding member of 2U and a head of University Partnership and Corporate Development

1:26.3

there.

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