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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

278: The Critical Factors Separating High and Low Performers with Morten Hansen

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Professor Morten Hansen shares the striking results from his multi-year study that identified the seven factors that explain 66% of the difference between low- and high-performing employees.   You'll Learn: The seven key practices that outperformers do How to work less while accomplishing more How to win your colleagues over to collaborate better   About Morten: Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and INSEAD (France), professor Hansen holds a PhD from Stanford Business School, where he was a Fulbright scholar. His academic research has won several prestigious awards, and he is ranked as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. Morten Hansen was also a manager at the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised corporate clients worldwide. Morten travels the world to give keynotes and help companies and people become great at work. He is the coauthor (with Jim Collins) of the New York Times bestseller Great by Choice and the author of the highly acclaimed Collaboration and Great at Work.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep278 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

0:05.4

professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to

0:08.7

flourish at work. Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Machitis.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 278 with Morton Hanson.

0:26.5

I think you'll love this one because last time we talked about some hard-hitting science,

0:32.4

separating high performers from not so high

0:34.5

performers with Clinton Longnecker it was a top episode of 2017 well we're at

0:41.2

it again with Morton Hansen who is bringing it with tremendous results from his study about what it takes to be great at work.

0:50.0

And not his opinion, but some robust research that explains 66% of the variation associated with work performance by variable.

0:59.0

So you'll learn one, the seven key practices that outperformance do, two, how to work less while accomplishing more,

1:05.4

and three, how to win your colleagues over

1:07.7

to collaborate better.

1:09.2

So if you want to check out the show notes

1:10.6

or the transcript or the links to items

1:12.4

that we discuss here.

1:14.0

It's over at awesome at your job.com slash F 278.

1:17.8

Now here is the story with Morton.

1:20.6

Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and in Saad in France.

1:24.6

Professor Hanson holds a PhD from Stanford Business School where he was a Fulbright scholar.

1:30.2

His academic research has won several prestigious awards and he is ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50.

1:39.3

Morton Hanson was also manager at the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised corporate clients worldwide.

1:44.8

Morton travels the world to give keynotes

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