584: How Curiosity Can Help You Reinvent Your Career and Stand Out with Francesca Gino
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Harvard professor Francesca Gino discusses why we shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions and nurture our curiosity.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The mindset shift that leads to great innovation
2) Why our fear of judgment is often overblown
3) How to resolve conflict peacefully with curiosity
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— ABOUT FRANCESCA —
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School and the author, most recently, of Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life. Gino is also affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard, and the Behavioral Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School.
Gino has been honored as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers 50.
• Book: Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life
• Book website: RebelTalents.org
• Website: FrancescaGino.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton
• Company: Second City
• Personality: Massimo Bottura
• Study: Carol Dweck: A Summary of Growth and Fixed Mindsets
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 584 with Francesca Geno. |
| 0:23.6 | Francesca has got some pro tips on how your curiosity, |
| 0:28.0 | you're asking questions can actually in fact |
| 0:31.1 | be a real asset to you in your career and delight people when you ask those questions. |
| 0:36.5 | So good stuff on curiosity. |
| 0:38.7 | You'll learn one, the mindset shift that leads to great innovation. |
| 0:42.8 | Two, our fear of judgment is often overblown, |
| 0:45.4 | and three, how to resolve conflict peacefully |
| 0:48.0 | with curiosity. |
| 0:49.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript |
| 0:50.8 | or the links to items that we've referenced |
| 0:53.0 | visit awesome at your job. |
| 0:53.8 | com slash EP 584. |
| 0:56.3 | That's awesome at your job |
| 0:57.2 | dot com slash F 584. |
| 0:59.7 | Now here's Francesca's story. |
| 1:01.0 | Francesca Geno is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people |
| 1:04.4 | make the decisions they do at work and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative, |
| 1:09.2 | and fulfilling lives. |
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