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.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 186 with Dr. Clint Longnecker.

Clint has a wealth of research-based insights and studies on what makes high-performance high-performance

so you'll learn one research revealing the five key things high-performance have in common

two the dangers of being too busy, and three, the power of a strategic stop.

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

here, you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com

slash Epp 186.

Now here's Clint's story.

Clinton Oliver Longneker is an award-winning educator and one of America's leaders in the area of rapid performance improvement and is a distinguished university professor and the director of the Center for Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo.

He's written three books and has a huge caring heart.

Here's Clint.

Clint, thanks so much for joining us here

on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

Thanks, Pete, it's a privilege to be here

and I really appreciate what you do and how you do it and who doesn't want to be

awesome at their job. Come on. Wait, I love that attitude. I sure think it's the only way

to go in terms of enjoying it and having fun and making a big impact. And I understand you from my

readings about you. You like to make a big impact in your frequent travels to Haiti. What's the story there?

Well, that's a great question. I was my first trip to Haiti

was in 1983 or a very very long time ago and I took a group of 38 high school and

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