337: Six Tactics for Extraordinary Performance, with Morten Hansen
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Morten Hansen: Great at Work
Morten Hansen is a management professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor with Jim Collins of the New York Times bestseller Great by Choice and the author of the new book Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More*.
Key Points
The Six Tactics:
- Carve out the 15
- Chunk it
- Measure the soft
- Get feedback
- Dig the dip
- Confront the stall point
Other Points:
- Focus on one skill you want to prove.
- Meetings should only be for debate, not status updates.
- Having a coach is great, but often you can coach yourself if you only focus on one thing at a time.
Resources Mentioned
- Great at Work* by Morten Hansen
- Great by Choice* by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Great at Work in PDF format (free membership required).
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| 0:00.0 | We all like to think we're fast learners, but what does the research say about us performing better? |
| 0:06.0 | On this episode, six research-based tactics that will help you achieve extraordinary performance. |
| 0:12.0 | This is coaching for leaders, episode 330. achieve extraordinary performance. |
| 0:12.6 | This is coaching for leaders episode 337. |
| 0:16.4 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:18.9 | Maximizing Human Potential. potential. and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:33.1 | Leaders aren't born, they're made. |
| 0:35.4 | And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom |
| 0:39.2 | that will empower you to become a better leader. You hear me say that every week. Leaders aren't born, they're made. |
| 0:46.7 | We are always learning and developing our leadership skills if we want to have the privilege and the opportunity to be able to lead and influence others. |
| 0:55.7 | Today's episode I know is going to challenge all of us to continue that process of developing ourselves as leaders not only for our own |
| 1:06.1 | benefit but for the benefit of the people we have the privileged influence and |
| 1:10.4 | of course for the benefit of the organization as well. |
| 1:14.0 | Today's guest has done a ton of thinking but not only thinking a tremendous amount of research |
| 1:19.8 | on how to create extraordinary performance. |
| 1:22.8 | And I know he's gonna be helpful in helping us |
| 1:25.2 | to get some immediate action around that. |
| 1:27.5 | Morton Hanson is my guest today. |
| 1:29.1 | He is a management professor |
| 1:31.1 | at the University of California Berkeley. He is the co-author with |
| 1:34.8 | Jim Collins of the New York Times bestseller Great By Choice. His academic |
| 1:39.5 | research has won several prestigious awards and he is ranked as one of the world's most |
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