1044: Becoming the Boss that Everyone Wants to Work For with Sabina Nawaz

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sabina Nawaz shows you how to cope with the pressures that come with leadership.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The perils of getting promoted

2) Why asking for feedback isn’t enough

3) The power of shutting up

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— ABOUT SABINA —

Sabina Nawaz is an elite executive coach who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions around the world. During her fourteen-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software development teams to leading the company’s executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and nearly a thousand executives. She is the author of YOU’RE THE BOSS: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need).

• Book: You're the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)

• Website: SabinaNawaz.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Martyr: A Novel by Kaveh Akbar

• Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Book: The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert Sutton

• Book: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

• Past episode: 204: How to Survive the Jerks at Work with Robert Sutton

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0:00.0	The quality of feedback you receive is directly proportional to the quality of the question you ask.
0:16.3	Take one thing that you're going to do to improve.
0:20.2	Break it down into the smallest, most ridiculously small unit and do it every day as a micro habit.
0:36.8	That's Sabina Nawaz.
0:38.3	After working at Microsoft for 14 years, she's now an elite executive coach with extensive experience advising sea level executives and teams at Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions around the world.
0:51.0	Her new book, You're the Boss.
0:52.8	Become the manager you want to be and others need,
0:55.5	shares what it takes
0:56.6	to be that exceptional leader
0:58.0	that everyone wants to work for.
0:59.9	So you'll learn one,
1:00.8	the perils of getting promoted,
1:02.5	why simply asking for feedback
1:04.3	isn't enough.
1:05.5	And three, the power of shutting up.
1:08.1	And if you'd like to read
1:08.9	a summary of the actionable takeaways from this
1:11.6	conversation, please pay us a visit at Awesome at Your Job.com and sign up for the free
1:16.0	gold nugget email newsletter. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now,
1:21.4	here's Sabina.
1:26.1	Sabina, welcome. Thanks so much, Pete.
1:28.5	Looking forward to this.
	...

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