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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

459: How to Make Work More Sustainable Through Reinvention with Diana Wu David

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Diana Wu David shares how to future-proof your work-life with approaches for reinvention and re-framing.


— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Approaches for taking agency over your own career.

2) How to recognize the “treadmill of self-sacrifice” and get off it.

3) The right way to ask for what you want at work.


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— ABOUT DIANA —

Diana Wu David is a strategist, innovator, entrepreneur, and the founder of Sarana Capital and Sarana Labs. Her companies transform how executives work and prepare companies for the future of work, invest in Edtech and HRtech, and support innovative education initiatives across public and private sectors. Her diverse, global career includes assisting Henry Kissinger and leading executive education initiatives for Financial Times. A superconnector of people and a sought-after speaker, Diana lives in Hong Kong with her husband and their three children.  

• Diana’s Book: “Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration”

• Diana’s TEDx Talk: The Difference Between Running and Running Free

• Diana’s Website: DianaWuDavid.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• App: Zoom

• App: SaneBox

• App: SaneLater

• Podcast: Inside Asia

• Book: “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity” by Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott, and Mark Meadows

• Prior episode: 020: Strategically Spending Your 100 Years with Lynda Gratton

• Prior episode: 418: Separating Your Self-Worth from Your Productivity with Rahaf Harfoush


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Transcript

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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, Steve McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, thanks for joining us here for episode 459 with Diana Wu David.

0:23.0

Diana is talking about how to make your work life work better for your life

0:28.2

and future proofing it and so much more good stuff.

0:31.0

See all learn one approaches for taking agency over your own

0:34.2

career. Two, how to recognize the treadmill of self-sacrifice and get off it.

0:38.7

And three, the right way to ask for what you want at work. So if you want to take a look at the

0:43.2

show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've referenced you'll find that

0:46.3

over at awesome at your job.com slash f for-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f9. I really appreciate

0:51.6

Diana and here's her story Diana Woo David is a strategist innovator

0:55.4

entrepreneur and the founder of Serrano Capital and Serrano Labs. Her companies

0:58.8

transform how executives work and prepare companies for the future of work, invest in ed tech and

1:03.3

HR tech and support innovative education initiatives across public and

1:07.8

private sectors. Her diverse global career includes assisting Henry

1:11.7

Kissinger and leading executive

1:13.5

education initiatives for Financial Times. A super connector of people and

1:17.3

a sought-after speaker, Diana lives in Hong Kong with her husband and their

1:20.9

three children. Thanks to Diana for spending some time with us,

1:23.6

and thanks for our sponsors.

1:24.7

Check him out.

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