109: Finding and Asking the Right Questions with Toku McCree
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Celebrated business coach Toku McCree shares curated wisdom gleaned from his coaching clients and years of zen monastery reflection on his career spanning over 30 jobs.
You’ll Learn:
- Why you should find your 4% edge and lean on it
- What is mindfulness and how to apply it in the office
- Three keys to growth
About Toku
Toku works with brilliant leaders who are obsessed with greatness and helps them understand that ‘success’ is just the beginning of an amazing life and not the destination.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: UNEXECUTIVE.com
- Book: The Prosperous Coach by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin
- Book: Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
- Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Book: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- App: Time Doctor
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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. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us for episode 109 with Toku McCree. |
| 0:28.0 | We have a unique perspective from a man who's done a lot of thinking,itating mindful pondering on some key critical |
| 0:35.2 | components for being awesome at your job so when you've had 30 different jobs |
| 0:39.7 | and reflected on them for about two and a half years in a Zen monastery. There's some good |
| 0:45.0 | fruit that bubbles up and we're going to get to some of that. In particular, |
| 0:49.5 | one, why you should find your 4% edge and lean on it. |
| 0:53.6 | 2. What is mindfulness and how to apply it in the office? |
| 0:56.8 | And 3. |
| 0:58.0 | 3 keys to growth. |
| 0:59.5 | So if you would like to check out the show notes |
| 1:01.4 | or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here, |
| 1:05.2 | you can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash ep 109. |
| 1:10.4 | Or if you would like some of those take away tidbits faster in an email you can read |
| 1:14.8 | under two minutes. Go ahead and sign up for the gold nugget email list over at awesome at your job |
| 1:19.6 | dot com or check out some other cool stuff we have from the 10 days to winning at work |
| 1:23.7 | email course about slashing waste out of your work week to over 100 other |
| 1:29.0 | other awesome guests and more goodies. So drop on by and I hope to catch you there. But first let's talk here and now about |
| 1:36.8 | Toku. Toku works with brilliant leaders who are obsessed with greatness and |
| 1:41.0 | helps them understand that success is just the beginning of an |
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