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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

127: Making Better Decisions with Matt Bodnar (Host of the Science of Success podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Matt Bodnar shares tools and mental models to be high-leverage as possible through better decision-making. You'll Learn: Why decision-making skills are a timeless key to being high-leverage Approaches to build a powerful tool box of mental models How to apply the 80/20 principle to life and work decisions   About Matt: Matt Bodnar has been named to Forbes “30 Under 30”, called a “Rising Restaurateur Star” by the National Restaurant Association, and a “Strategy Pro” by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine. He’s a partner at early stage investment firm Fresh Hospitality. Bodnar joined Fresh in 2011 after several years at Goldman Sachs. He sourced and lead the firm’s investment in I Love Juice Bar, vertical farming startup Square Roots, Vui’s Kitchen, Grilled Cheeserie, and several more deals. Bodnar is a board member and works closely with a number of portfolio companies including Tazikis, I Love Juice Bar, Martins BBQ, Octane Coffee, and Fresh Technology. Bodnar is also the co-founder of Fresh Capital, which focuses on commercial real estate investing and development. He also hosts The Science of Success Podcast, which has received nearly a million downloads. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep127 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 127 with Matt Bodner.

0:27.0

Matt is all about being high leverage in the Archimedes sense of the word.

0:31.0

Give me a place to stand and lever long enough and I will move the world.

0:36.2

That's what's up.

0:37.2

That's about getting big results per unit of effort and he thinks decision-making is one of the

0:42.3

finest ways to do that.

0:43.5

So you're going to learn one why decision-making skills are a timeless key to being

0:48.1

high leverage. Two, approaches to build a powerful toolbox of mental models.

0:53.0

And three, how to apply the 80-20 principle to life and work decisions.

0:57.6

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript

1:00.1

or links to some of the items that we are referencing here.

1:03.6

You can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash epp one two seven.

1:08.4

So here's Matt's story.

1:09.9

Matt Bodner has been named to Forbes's 30 under 30, called a rising restaurant

1:14.9

star by the National Restaurant Association and a strategy pro by Restaurant Hospitality magazine.

1:21.1

He's a partner at Early Stage Investment Firm, Fresh Hospitality. He's a partner at Early Stage Investment

1:22.9

firm, Fresh Hospitality.

1:24.8

Bodner joined Fresh in 2011 after several years at Goldman Sachs.

1:28.7

He sourced and led the firm's investment in I Love Jusbar,

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