382: The Immense Power of Clarity with Karen Martin
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Lean management authority Karen Martin shares how many workplace problems can be solved through better clarity.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why people fear asking for clarity
2) Key clarifying questions that stimulate great thinking
3) Why tolerance for ambiguity is actually bad
About Karen
Karen Martin, president of the global consulting firm TKMG, Inc., is a leading authority on business performance and Lean management. Known for her keen diagnostic skills and rapid-results approach, Karen and her team have worked with clients such as AT&T, Chevron, Epson, GlaxoSmithKline, International Monetary Fund, Lenovo, Mayo Clinic, Prudential Insurance, Qualcomm, and the United States Department of Homeland Security to develop more efficient work systems, grow market share, solve business problems, and accelerate performance.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Karen’s website: www.TKMG.com
- Karen’s book: Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
- Karen’s book: The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence
- Research: Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching
- Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Tool: Superhuman
- Tool: www.ClarityFirstQuiz.com
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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 McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 382 with Karen Martin. |
| 0:23.1 | Karen is talking about clarity and the huge difference it makes in terms of making |
| 0:27.4 | workplaces move and function well. |
| 0:30.4 | So you'll learn one why people fear asking for clarity. |
| 0:33.0 | Two, he clarifying questions that stimulate great thinking. |
| 0:36.0 | And three, why a tolerance for ambiguity is actually a bad thing. |
| 0:40.0 | So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:42.6 | albums we've referenced it's on over to awesome at your job.com slash F three eight two |
| 0:46.5 | and while you're at awesome at your job.com I encourage you to check out some of our |
| 0:50.0 | nifty resources one of the niftiest is the gold nugget email list so you can |
| 0:54.2 | get summary insights from Karen and all the guests that have come before her |
| 0:57.8 | and afterwards in a quick bit you can read in two to five minutes in your inbox as well as accessing the |
| 1:04.1 | archive of everyone's summary gold nugget wisdom that's the gold nuggets |
| 1:07.9 | over at awesome at your job.com now here's Karen story Karen Martin is the |
| 1:11.7 | president of the global consulting firm |
| 1:13.2 | TKMG Inc, which is a leading authority on business |
| 1:16.4 | performance and lean management. |
| 1:17.8 | She's known for her keen diagnostic skills and rapid results approach. |
| 1:22.1 | Karen and her team have worked with clients such as AT&T, Chevron, Epson, Galaxo-Smith Klein, |
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