116: Achieving More with Less Resources with Scott Sonenshein
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein proposes a change in mindset when it comes to constraints and stretching resources and getting more with less.
You’ll Learn:
- Principles behind the “Myth of More” and the “Power of Less”
- Why experts are over-rated
- The four keys of an effective stretching mindset
About Scott
Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University. His award winning research, teaching, and consulting has helped Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals in a variety of industries. He holds a PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a strategy consultant for companies such as AT&T and Microsoft and lived the rise and fall of the dotcom boom while working at a Silicon Valley startup.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Share your feedback at AwesomeAtYourJob.com/chat
- Book: Stretch by Scott Sonenshein
- Book: Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- Book: The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
- Website: http://www.scottsonenshein.com/
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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 Lekitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 116 with Scott Sun and Shine. |
| 0:26.0 | You're going to learn one principles behind the myth of boar and the power of less |
| 0:30.0 | two why experts are overrated and 3. The four keys of an effective stretching mindset. |
| 0:36.2 | If you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcripts or the links to stuff we talk about here, |
| 0:40.4 | that's over at awesome at your job dot com slash epp 116 and while you're at awesome at your job |
| 0:46.5 | dot com I'd encourage you to schedule time to talk to me and tell me what do you like |
| 0:50.6 | about the show what would you like to see changed about the show that's at awesome at |
| 0:54.0 | your job dot com slash chat here's the scoop on Scott Scott Sunnenshine is the |
| 0:59.8 | Henry Gardner Simon's professor of Management at Rice University. |
| 1:04.1 | His award-winning research, teaching, and consulting |
| 1:06.4 | has helped Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, |
| 1:08.8 | and professionals in a variety of industries. |
| 1:11.2 | He holds a PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan, |
| 1:15.0 | an M Phil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Virginia. |
| 1:20.0 | He has worked as a strategy consulted for companies such as AT&T and Microsoft |
| 1:24.6 | and lived the rise and fall of the dot-com boom while working at a Silicon Valley startup. |
| 1:29.5 | Here's Scott. |
| 1:30.5 | Scott, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job |
| 1:34.4 | podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | Thanks for having me here, Pete. |
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