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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

409: How to Crush Complexity with Jesse Newton

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Newton makes the case for simplifying your organization’s complex processes and getting rid of distractions.   You'll Learn: The five factors that drive organizational complexity Key questions that clarify what’s truly important The communication mistake people make when simplifying work   About Jesse: Jesse Newton is the author of Simplify Work; Crushing Complexity to Liberate Innovation, Productivity, and Engagement. He is the founder and CEO of Simplify Work; a global management consulting firm that helps organizations throw off the shackles of debilitating complexity and reignite top performance. His clients include McDonalds and PepsiCo. Prior to launching Simplify Work, Newton was a senior member of Booz & Company’s Organization, Change and Leadership consulting practice and also spent a number of years consulting around the world with Ernst & Young’s People & Organizational Change practice.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep409 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 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 409 with Jesse Newton.

0:22.6

Jesse's talking about how to crush complexity

0:24.9

to bring about simplicity and enjoy the benefits that it yields.

0:29.2

So you'll learn one, the five factors that drive organizational complexity, two,

0:33.2

some key questions that clarify what's truly important,

0:36.0

and three, the communication mistake that people make when they try to simplify work.

0:40.7

So if you want to check up the show notes, the transcript, the links to items we've referenced, it's over to awesome at your job.

0:45.0

dot com slash Epp 409. And here's Jesse's story.

0:48.0

Jesse Newton is the author of Simplify Work, Crushing Complexity to Liberate Innovation, Productivity, and Engagement. He, productivity, and engagement.

0:54.0

He's the founder and CEO of Simplify Work, a global management consulting firm that helps

0:58.4

organizations throw off the shackles of debilitating complexity and reignite top performance.

1:04.6

His clients include McDonald's and PepsiCo,

1:06.4

and prior to launching exemplify work,

1:08.1

Newton was a senior member of Booze and Coe's organization change

1:11.8

and leadership consulting practice, and he also spent a number of years consulting practice and he also spent a number of years

1:14.6

consulting around the world with Ernst & Young's people in organizational change practice.

1:19.1

Big thanks to Jesse for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:22.1

Check him out. Here is Jesse.

1:25.9

Jesse thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be All Smat Your Job podcast.

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