531: How to Differentiate Yourself to Get Promoted with Stan Silverman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Stan Silverman discusses how being different and taking risks pays off for your career.
You'll Learn:
1) Why failing is the first step to achieving more at work
2) How to take calculated risks that win at work
3) Why and how to break policy
About Stan:
Stan Silverman is the founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership. He is also a speaker, advisor, and the author of Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success. He is a nationally syndicated writer on the topics of leadership, entrepreneurship, and corporate governance, writing for several publications such as the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Silverman has served on several public, private, private equity and nonprofit boards and currently sits as the vice-chairman of the board of trustees at Drexel University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering and an MBA degree from Drexel University. He is also an alumnus of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
- Book: Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success
- Website: SilvermanLeadership.com
- LinkedIn: Stan Silverman
Items mentioned in the show
- Book: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
- Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
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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 531 with Stan Silverman. |
| 0:23.5 | Stan is sharing how to differentiate yourself |
| 0:25.7 | to get promoted. |
| 0:26.5 | You'll learn one, why failing is the first step |
| 0:29.0 | to achieving more at work. |
| 0:30.2 | Two, how to take calculated risks that win at work and 3. Why and how to break policy? |
| 0:37.0 | So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to Islands we've referenced, |
| 0:41.0 | throw over at awesome at your job. dot com slash F-531. |
| 0:44.6 | And if you're new, hello, welcome. |
| 0:47.1 | I recommend that you check out the favorite episodes |
| 0:50.8 | in between episodes, numbered zero and, are some faves labeled ABC-D-E-F that have high |
| 0:56.8 | levels of downloads and engagement. I think you'll dig them and will help you get oriented to what |
| 1:01.3 | the show is all about. |
| 1:02.7 | Now here's Stan's story. |
| 1:03.9 | Stan Silverman is the founder and CEO of Silverman Leadership. |
| 1:07.1 | He's also a speaker, advisor, and author of Be Different, |
| 1:10.2 | the key to business and career success. |
| 1:12.3 | He is a nationally syndicated writer on the topics of leadership, |
| 1:15.2 | entrepreneurship, and corporate governance, writing for several publications such as the Philadelphia |
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