340: How to Be a Chief Even without a Title with Rick Miller
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rick Miller outlines what power really means and the five components needed to build it.
You’ll Learn:
1) Where true power comes from
2) Five ways to create insight and energy
3) Why supporting other people’s success grows your influence
About Rick
Rick Miller is an unconventional turnaround specialist, a servant leader, and a go-to Chief. He is also an experienced and trusted confidant, an author (Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title, September 4, Motivational Press), a sought-after speaker, and an expert at driving sustainable growth. For over 30 years, Rick served as a successful business executive in roles including President and/or CEO in a Fortune 10, a Fortune 30, a startup, and a nonprofit. Rick earned a bachelor’s degree from Bentley University and an MBA from Columbia. He currently lives in Morristown, NJ.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Rick’s book: Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title
- Rick’s website: BeChief.com
- Book: The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance by Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
- Research: Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study
- Book: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
- App: Calm
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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 |
| 0:21.0 | for episode 340 with Rick Miller. |
| 0:23.3 | I think you'll dig this chat with Rick as he is talking about how to be Chief, even it without a title. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm not talking about Chief Alignai Wick of my alma mater, the University of Illinois |
| 0:32.3 | or Banish Champaign. I mean, or Bana, Champagne. |
| 0:33.5 | I mean, chief like a chief financial officer, |
| 0:35.8 | chief operating officer, etc. |
| 0:38.3 | How you can wield that kind of influence and power |
| 0:41.4 | even if you don't have a title like that. |
| 0:43.4 | So you'll learn one, where true power comes from, |
| 0:45.9 | two, five ways to create insight and energy, |
| 0:48.6 | and three, why supporting other people's success |
| 0:51.4 | grows your influence. |
| 0:52.8 | So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcripts or the links to items |
| 0:55.8 | we've referenced, you'll find it over at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 340. |
| 1:00.8 | And why you're at awesome at your job. |
| 1:02.4 | I hope you'll check out some of our cool stuff. |
| 1:04.3 | One cool thing I'd point you to is the gold nugget email list |
| 1:06.6 | which provides summary insights from Rick |
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