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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

119: Build Your Grit, Achieve Your Goal with Linda Kaplan-Thaler

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Linda Kaplan-Thaler shares how you can turn up your GRIT factor to better put in the hard work needed to achieve success.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Why hard work trumps genius
  2. The GRIT framework for reaching success
  3. The research-based 30-minute rule that gritty winners follow


About Linda

Advertising Hall of Famer Linda Kaplan Thaler is responsible for some of America’ s most famous and award-winning advertising campaigns, including the Aflac duck and the hilarious “Yes, Yes, Yes” commercials for Clairol Herbal Essences. She has composed jingles that are among the industry’s gold standard, including “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, I’m a Toys ‘ R’ Us Kid,” and “Kodak Moments.”

Today, Linda is a renowned motivational speaker and is President of Kaplan Thaler Productions. Linda is also a nationally acclaimed author and, together with Robin Koval, their newest bestseller, “GRIT to GREAT,” was ranked one of the top business books for 2015.


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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.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 119 with Linda Kaplan Thaler.

0:27.0

Linda has a really cool background and experience set from her advertising in her books and she shares, one, why hard work

0:35.2

trumps genius, two, the grit framework for reaching success, and three, the research-based 30-minute rule that gritty winners follow.

0:44.1

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we

0:48.1

mentioned here, that's over at awesome at your job.com slash F-119, and I'd encourage you while you're there to check out

0:54.9

some the other cool resources from our 10 days to winning at work, free email

0:58.7

course to the gold nugget email summaries. Those emails have the wisdom of the guests in a

1:04.4

quick email you can read in under two minutes. So here's a quick bit about

1:08.3

Linda. Linda is an advertising Hall of Fame responsible for some of America's most famous in award-winning

1:13.8

advertising campaigns including the Affleck Duck Toys R Us kids, Kodak Moments, Urban Lessons is yes, yes, yes, and so many more.

1:22.0

Previously, Linda was the CEO of the Kaplan Theler Group,

1:24.5

which she grew from a fledgling startup

1:26.0

to a company with over a billion dollars in Billings.

1:28.8

Today, Linda is a renowned motivational speaker

1:31.3

and is president of Kaplan Thaler Productions.

1:33.7

Linda is also a nationally acclaimed author and together with Robin Kovall

1:38.0

their newest bestseller, Grit to Great, was ranked one of the top business books for 2015.

1:43.3

Mrs. Cathin Baylor is a familiar face in the media having appeared on The Apprentice,

1:47.8

Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, and as the host of Oxygen's television series making it big.

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