480: Get Noticed Without Selling Out, with Laura Huang
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Laura Huang: Edge
Laura Huang is an associate professor at the Harvard Business School. Her research examines interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. She is the creator of #FindYourEdge, an initiative dedicated to addressing inequality and disadvantage through personal empowerment.
Her award-winning research has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Forbes — and she was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. She’s the author of the book Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage*.
In this conversation, Laura and I discuss the value of constraints, why hard work isn’t enough, and the reason you’re not selling out when reclaiming an awareness of yourself. We also explore why it’s essential for you to be able to tell your story.
Key Points
- “Be yourself” is sometimes bad advice.
- You’re not selling out when you reclaim an awareness of yourself.
- Bring value — and also be sure that people KNOW you bring value.
- Self awareness can sometimes encumber our ability to guide.
- Don’t passively let others write your narrative — write your own narrative and guide other’s view of you. Let your past make you better, not bitter.
Resources Mentioned
- Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage* by Laura Huang
Book Notes
Download my highlights from Edge in PDF format (free membership required).
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| 0:00.0 | Hard work is important, but it's not enough. We still need to be able to tell our story. |
| 0:06.0 | On this episode, How to Get Notice Without Selling Out. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 480. |
| 0:13.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:18.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:26.9 | host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful |
| 0:36.5 | conversations. |
| 0:38.1 | Our hard work should speak for itself, shouldn't it? |
| 0:41.8 | If only it was that easy. Really though we need to be able to not only work |
| 0:47.3 | hard, not only to do the diligent responsible work that so many of us in our listening community do every day throughout our |
| 0:54.0 | careers, but also to be able to position ourselves well so that we can rise up. |
| 0:59.6 | Today's guest is really an expert at helping leaders to do this well. I'm so glad to welcome to the show |
| 1:06.8 | Laura Huang. She is an associate professor at the Harvard Business School. Laura's research examines interpersonal relationship |
| 1:14.7 | and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. |
| 1:18.4 | She is the creator of Find Your Edge, an initiative dedicated to addressing |
| 1:22.4 | inequality and |
| 1:23.3 | disadvantage through personal empowerment. Her award-winning research |
| 1:27.1 | has been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes |
| 1:31.6 | and many others. |
| 1:32.8 | And she's also been named as one of the 40 best business school professors |
| 1:37.2 | under the age of 40 by Poets and Quants. |
| 1:40.1 | She's the author of the new book, Edge, turning adversity into advantage. |
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