338: Keeping Your Networks in Good Working Order with Glenna Crooks
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 26 August 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Glenna Crooks illustrates the eight different kinds of networks everyone has and why you should make sure these work for you while you work for them.
You’ll Learn:
1) The eight different kinds of networks in your life
2) A method for successfully pruning your network
3) The maximum number of connections each person can sustain
About Glenna
Glenna Crooks is a strategist, innovator and trusted counsel to leaders globally. She was a Reagan appointee, global vice-president of Merck’s Vaccine Business and founder of a global strategy firm solving tough health care problems. She is active in academia, on boards, writes books and blogs, is a sought-after speaker and was recently named A Disruptive Woman to Watch. She is also a Zen artist and donates her paintings to support children with special needs.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsored messages: Blinkist summarizes great books for you
- Glenna’s book: The NetworkSage: Realize Your Network Superpower
- Glenna’s website: http://www.GlennaCrooks.com
- Glenna’s app: SageMyLife
- TED talk: The hidden influence of social networks by Nicholas Chistakis
- TED talk: How social networks predict epidemics by Nicholas Chistakis
- Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
- Aritcle: Coworker with two computer screens
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 338 |
| 0:22.2 | with the Glina Crooks. |
| 0:23.4 | Glena is chatting about your networks, |
| 0:25.1 | all the people that are in your pit crew |
| 0:27.1 | that support you and that you support |
| 0:29.2 | and how to get that support moving |
| 0:31.8 | in the very best ways |
| 0:32.7 | so you can show up and do good work |
| 0:34.8 | and live good life. |
| 0:35.9 | So you'll learn one, the eight different kinds |
| 0:38.6 | of networks in your life, two, a method |
| 0:40.9 | for successfully pruning your network, and 3. The maximum number of connections a person can sustain. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, |
| 0:50.0 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job. com slash epit 338 and while at awesome at your job |
| 0:55.0 | dot com I encourage you to check out some cool stuff one cool thing at |
| 0:57.9 | to point you to was the 10 days to winning at work email course so if you would |
| 1:01.8 | like to prune some of your work day and have it go a little bit |
| 1:06.5 | quicker and shorter because you slash the waste out of there well I've got 10 bite-sized |
| 1:10.7 | lessons one email a day for 10 days that are excerpted from my |
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