566: How to Start Focusing and Stop Firefighting with Mike Michalowicz
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Mike Michalowicz shares how to zero in on the most important issues to fix next.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to identify what you need to fix next.
2) A crucial question you’re forgetting to ask.
3) The tremendous energy unleashed by providing context for goals.
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— ABOUT MIKE —
Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, The Pumpkin Plan, and his newest book, Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneurial advocate.
• Book: Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 566 with Mike McCallowix. |
| 0:23.7 | Mike is sharing what to fix next so you can better focus, |
| 0:27.6 | you can stop the firefighting and get more good solid stuff done that matters. |
| 0:32.6 | So you all learn one, how to identify what you need to fix next. |
| 0:35.8 | Two, a crucial question you're forgetting to ask. |
| 0:38.4 | And three, the tremendous energy unleashed by providing the context for goals. |
| 0:43.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:46.0 | out of you've referenced, expand the episode notes or show description in your |
| 0:50.0 | podcast at player or visit awesome at your job. |
| 0:52.2 | dot com slash EP EPF find. podcast at |
| 0:55.0 | a player or visit awesome at your job. |
| 0:53.0 | slash EP E. F.66 |
| 0:56.0 | and you'll find them that away with handy clickable links on our website. |
| 1:00.0 | Now here's Mike Story, Mike McAllowicks is the entrepreneur behind three |
| 1:04.4 | multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, |
| 1:07.6 | The Pumpkin Plan, and his newest book, Fix This Next. Make the vital change that |
| 1:11.6 | will level up your business. |
| 1:13.0 | Mike is a former small business columnist for the Wall Street Journal |
| 1:16.0 | and regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneurial advocate. |
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