578: How to Stay Calm and Productive Amid Uncertainty with David Lebel

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Professor David Lebel shares tactics for overcoming the fear of the uncertain and building the courage to speak up.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Simple, but powerful ways to ease your anxiety

2) The surprising cost of leaving things unsaid

3) A handy script for when you need to disagree

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— ABOUT DAVID —

David Lebel is an award-winning teacher and researcher, currently serving as Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Dave has received multiple teaching awards and was the highest rated professor at the Katz school during the 2017-2018 academic year. His research focuses on proactive behaviors at work including voice/speaking up, innovation, and taking initiative.

Dave received a BS in Economics, an MS in Management, and a PhD in Organizational Behavior, all from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to pursuing a PhD, he was a management consultant with Deloitte, providing strategy and operations expertise to public sector clients, and an analyst for a large $15 billion privately held supply chain organization.

He lives with his family in Pittsburgh, PA.

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— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

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• Researcher: Amy Edmondson

• Book: Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work by Debra Meyerson

• Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

• Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath

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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, Pete McKitis.
0:16.3	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 577 with David LaBelle.
0:24.2	David is talking about how to stay calm and productive
0:26.9	in the midst of uncertainty,
0:28.8	whether that's the particular uncertainty we're in now
0:30.9	or just the general discomfort of simply speaking up.
0:33.8	So you'll learn one simple but powerful ways to ease your anxiety.
0:37.2	Two, the surprising cost of leaving things unsaid and three a handy script for
0:42.2	when you need to disagree.
0:43.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to
0:45.6	albums we've referenced, do visit awesome at your job.com slash EP 578
0:51.2	and while you're there you might sign up for the Gold Nugget emails, which gives you summary
0:54.8	insight from David and every guest who's gone before him in an email as each episode comes out.
1:00.4	You can read in about three minutes,
1:02.7	as well as access to that whole vault.
1:04.4	That's called the gold nuggets at all to make your job.
1:06.6	Now here's it David's story.
1:08.3	Dave LaBelle is an award-winning teacher
1:10.2	and researcher currently serving
1:11.6	as assistant professor of business
	...

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