131. Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

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Think Fast Talk Smart

Communicating, Influence, Career Skills, Career, Business, Education, Leadership, Careers, Communication, Career Growth, Public Speaking, Language Learning, Improv

4.7 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Why resistance isn’t always a bad thing.

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0:00.0	We know from research that success isn't just about effort. It's about strategy, accountability, and of course, communication. And yet, when it comes to job transitions, promotions and salary negotiations, most people go it alone. That's where today's sponsor, Strawberry.combeer career coaching, comes in. Kylie, on the Think Fast Talk Smart team met with a strawberry.
0:21.0	dot me coach and found it really helpful. Kylie, how is your coach helping you in terms of
0:26.1	your career growth and personal development? From the very beginning, the whole process has helped
0:30.7	me to really reflect on how I want to move forward and define my goals. And then my coach Rashmi
0:35.8	took my ideas, helped make them tangible,
0:38.8	and suddenly I'm moving forward with actionable steps that I can manage in my life.
0:43.7	Wow. Sounds like your coach was super helpful. Absolutely.
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1:02.2	To become our best selves, the most creative and generous, we must focus on friction.
1:10.3	I'm Matt Abrahams.
1:11.6	I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
1:15.6	Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.
1:20.6	Today I am thrilled to speak with my GSP colleague and friend, Huggie Rau.
1:26.6	Huggie studies collective action within organizations and in markets.
1:30.8	His research and teaching focus on scaling up mobilization, innovation, and talent in organizations.
1:37.4	Huggy teaches many popular classes, including people operations, from startup to scale up.
1:46.5	He also has written several helpful and popular books, including scaling up excellence, getting to more without settling for less, and market
1:51.4	rebels, how activists can make or break radical innovations. Along with his partner in crime
1:57.0	Bob Sutton, he is a new book out called The Friction Project, How Smart Leaders
2:02.8	Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder. Well, Huggy, it is so good to have you on
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