176: How to Prevent Terrible Decisions using Red Team Thinking with Bryce Hoffman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 6 July 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bryce Hoffman shares how the military’s Red Teaming thinking tools can help professionals make optimal decisions.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to confront lies in your organizations and the lies you tell yourself
2) A quick way to check critical assumptions
3) One question that will help you make better decisions in under 15 minutes
About Bryce
Bryce G. Hoffman is a bestselling author, speaker and consultant who helps companies around the world plan better and global leaders lead better by applying innovative systems from the worlds of business and the military. He is the author of the 2012 bestseller, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, which has become a manual for CEOs looking to transform their corporate cultures. Before launching his international consulting practice in 2014, Hoffman was an award-winning financial journalist who spent 22 years covering the global automotive, high-tech and biotech industries for newspapers in Michigan and California. He writes a regular column on leadership and culture for Forbes.com and regularly appears on television and radio shows in the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit: http://brycehoffman.com/
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Bryce’s book Red Teaming
- Bryce’s website: BryceHoffman.com and RedTeamThinking.com
- Book: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
- Study: Asch Experiment
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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. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 176 with Bryce Hoffman. |
| 0:26.8 | We're talking smart decision-making using some military secret sauce called Red Teaming. So you're going to learn one how to confront lies in your |
| 0:35.4 | organizations and the lies you tell yourselves to a quick way to check critical |
| 0:40.1 | assumptions and three a key question that will help you make better decisions in |
| 0:45.6 | under 15 minutes. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or |
| 0:50.3 | the links to items that we'd reference here. It's over at awesome at your |
| 0:53.4 | job.com slash epp 176 and while you're at awesome at your job |
| 0:58.5 | dot com I encourage you to check out some of our handy resources one I'll highlight here is the 10 days |
| 1:04.5 | to winning at work email course. |
| 1:06.7 | And these are excerpts from my Enhanced Thinking |
| 1:09.8 | Collaboration Training Program, which helps teams slash through waste in their work week. |
| 1:16.0 | And so you'll get some of the most bite-sized actionable tidbits from that to your inbox. |
| 1:20.5 | One a day, over 10 days, to cut through through wasted time so that you can do more cool |
| 1:25.2 | strategic thinking or just get home earlier that's there along with other great |
| 1:29.3 | stuff now here is Bryce's story. |
| 1:32.7 | Bryce G Huffman is a best-selling author, |
| 1:34.9 | speaker, and consultant who helps companies |
| 1:37.2 | around the world plan better and global leaders |
| 1:40.6 | lead better by applying innovative systems from the worlds of business and the military. |
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