533: How to Identify and Eliminate Friction with Roger Dooley
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Roger Dooley talks about how eliminating friction at work can lead to better productivity.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The cardinal rule of friction.
2) How to reduce the friction of meetings.
3) How mistrust creates friction.
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— ABOUT ROGER —
Roger Dooley is an author and international keynote speaker. His books include Friction: The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage and Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing. He is behind the popular blog, Neuromarketing, as well as a column at Forbes.com.
He is the founder of Dooley Direct, a consultancy, and co-founded College Confidential, the leading college-bound website. He has an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee.
• Book: "FRICTION―The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage"
• Book: "Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing"
• Blog: Neuromarketing
• Podcast: Brainfluence
• Website: RogerDooley.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Pocket
• Book: “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert Cialdini
• Book: “Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies” by Paul Zak
• Company: Gallup
• Personality: Cal Newport
• Personality: Jack Welch
• Personality: Richard Thaler
• Personality: Werner Heisenberg
• Previous episode: 124: The Science Behind Trust and High-Performance with Paul Zak
• Software: Google Tag Manager
• Survey: Customer Effort Score
• Survey: Net Promoter Score
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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 so much for joining us here for episode 532 with Roger Dooley. Roger is sharing all about how to reduce |
| 0:26.0 | friction, the stuff that makes work harder. So you'll learn one, the cardinal rule of friction, |
| 0:31.0 | two, how to reduce the friction of meetings, and three, how mistrust is often at the |
| 0:35.6 | root of friction. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:39.0 | Adams we've referenced, drop on over all the about your job.com slash F-52. |
| 0:44.0 | Now here's Roger Dooli is an author and international keynote speaker. |
| 0:48.0 | His books include Friction, Gun Tad Force that can be your most powerful advantage |
| 0:52.0 | and brainfluence 100 ways to |
| 0:54.0 | persuade and convince consumers with neuromarketing. He's behind the popular blog |
| 0:58.5 | neuromarketing as well as a column at Forbes.com. Roger is the founder of Dewey Direct, a consultancy, |
| 1:05.0 | and co-founded College Confidential, |
| 1:07.0 | the leading College Bound website. |
| 1:09.0 | He has an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1:11.0 | and an MBA from the University of Tennessee. |
| 1:14.0 | Big thanks to Roger for taking some time to chat with us and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:18.0 | Check him out. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, here's Roger. |
| 1:22.0 | Roger, thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, happy to be here, Pete, thanks for the invite. |
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