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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 582

with Bruce Tolkin.

Bruce is going to share what you got to do

to become that indispensable go-to person in your team

and in your broader workplace.

You'll learn, one, the mindset that makes you indispensable.

Two, while you shouldn't stick to your specialty and three, how to stop juggling and start finishing tasks.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,

drop on by awesome at your job.com slash app 582 or expand your episode notes or description in your current

podcast app player but some of them don't have tapable links and none of them

have the full transcript because that's just too much to stick in there. But anyway good

stuff awaits you at all your job.com whether it is the particular notes and links and transcripts for this episode or the

gold nuggets summary insight wisdom or a directory to every episode we've released

you could search by keyword by topic or competency covered.

There's a lot of good stuff. Anywho, pitch complete. Here's Bruce's story.

Bruce Tolgan is the best-selling author of It's Okay to be the Boss and the CEO of Rainmaker

thinking the management research consulting and training firm he founded in 1993.

All of his work is based on 27 years of intensive workplace interviews and has been featured in thousands of new stories around the world.

Bruce's newest book The Art of Being Indispensable at Work is available in July from Harvard Business Review Press. You can follow Bruce on Twitter at

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