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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

115: Building Systems for Winning at Work with Geoff Blades

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Geoff Blades lays down the framework and mindset for achieving success in your career and in life.


You’ll Learn:

  1. How to convert difficult questions into a process towards answering them
  2. Dos and don’ts to discovering what “awesome at your job” TRULY means for you
  3. 5 principles for winning at your career


(Also, apologies on my sound quality. I apparently failed to switch to my good microphone. 1st time out of 115 episodes that happened…)


About Geoff

Geoff is a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and investor at the Carlyle Group. He is an author and advisor to senior Wall Street executives, CEOs, and other leaders on all topics related to getting what they want in their businesses, careers, and lives.

In addition to working one-on-one and with groups, through newsletters, books, and videos he strives to serve more and more people in doing what they want. He’s the author of Do What You Want: A Career Guide for Professionals Serious About Winning.

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Transcript

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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 115 with Jeff Blades.

0:26.5

Jeff is a man who boldly just says what it takes to win in your career and your life and I had a whole lot of fun chatting with

0:35.3

him I think you'll have fun listening to him so you're gonna learn one how to

0:39.4

convert difficult questions into a process toward answering them.

0:43.0

Two, do's and don'ts for discovering what awesome at your job truly means for you.

0:48.0

And three, five principles for winning at any career.

0:53.2

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

0:55.7

or the links to items mentioned,

0:56.8

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

0:59.6

slash Epp 115. And I also would encourage you to let me know what you're thinking

1:06.0

about the show, what do you dig, what would you like tweaked by scheduling a quick time to

1:10.7

chat live, you and me, one-on one on one via awesome at your job

1:14.9

dot com slash chat can schedule a short little appointment and we'll get to know

1:19.5

each other and it'll help me know what you need to hear as well as the thousands of other

1:24.4

listeners will benefit by getting stuff that's more on point based on your feedback.

1:29.7

So much appreciated that you weigh in there as well.

1:34.0

So here's a quick bit about Jeff.

1:35.6

Jeff is a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs

1:38.1

and investor at the Carlisle Group.

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