128: Little Things that Make a Big Difference for Your Career with Jeff Kavanaugh
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Infosys Senior Partner Jeff Kavanaugh talks about key skills and differentiators of winning professionals.
You’ll Learn:
- The powerful career distinguisher of “leaning forward” with critical thinking, professionalism, and delivering “done-done” work
- The Pyramid Principle for communicating with impact
- Three concrete steps to take to level up in your field
About Jeff
Jeff Kavanaugh is a Senior Partner at Infosys, one of the world’s largest consulting firms with over $10bn a year in revenue and a market cap in the 11-figures. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and writes at JeffKavanaugh.net.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Jeff’s New Book: Consulting Essentials
- Website: JeffKavanaugh.net
- Book: Contact by Carl Sagan
- Book: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Foundation: Infosys Foundation
- Methodology: Lean Six Sigma
- Program: Girls Who Code
- Survey: Qualtrics Survey
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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 McChitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 128 with Jeff Kavanaugh. |
| 0:27.0 | Jeff has a world of experience and wisdom that he shared in spades. |
| 0:32.0 | So you're going to walk away with one, the powerful career |
| 0:34.8 | distinguisher of leaning forward with critical thinking, professionalism, and living done-done work. |
| 0:41.1 | Two, the pyramid principle for communicating with impact and three, some concrete steps to level up in your |
| 0:48.4 | field. |
| 0:49.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here. |
| 0:53.6 | You'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash epp one two eight and while you're |
| 0:58.1 | over at awesome at your job.com I'd recommend you check out some of our best |
| 1:01.1 | resources including the 10 days to winning at work |
| 1:03.7 | email course with great tools for slashing waste out of your work week and the |
| 1:08.6 | gold nugget email list which summarizes the actionable wisdom of our guests in an email you can read in under two minutes each morning. |
| 1:16.0 | There is a new episode. So check those out, but for now here's Jeff's story. Jeff Kavanaugh is a senior partner in Infosys, one of the world's largest consulting firms |
| 1:25.3 | with over $10 billion a gear in revenue and a market cap in the 11 figures. |
| 1:29.8 | He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and |
| 1:34.1 | writes at Jeff Kavanaugh.net. Here's Jeff. |
| 1:38.0 | Jeff, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your |
| 1:40.8 | job podcast. |
| 1:41.8 | Glad to be on. |
| 1:42.5 | Thanks for having me. |
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