611: How to Get Ahead and Stay Ahead by Becoming a 10X Talent with Michael Solomon
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michael Solomon discusses the fundamental skills that keep game-changers above the rest.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The one thing that leads to exponential career growth
2) An overlooked skill that sets any professional apart
3) The most dangerous thing you can do to your career
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— ABOUT MICHAEL —
Michael Solomon is the cofounder of 10x Management, the world’s first tech talent agency. 10x matches top contract technology experts, designers, and brand innovators with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 clients like American Express, HSBC, Google, Verizon, Yelp, and more. He has appeared on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg TV and spoken at SXSW.
He founded Brick Wall Management, a talent agency representing multi platinum and Grammy award-winning recording artists, songwriters, top record producers, and filmmakers. Michael also co-founded Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live music to over 700,000 people in health care facilities across the U.S. and remains an active member of its Board of Directors.
• Michael’s book: Game Changer: How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy, with Rishon Bloomberg
• Michael’s email: Michael@10XManagement.com
• Michael’s site: GameChangerTheBook.com
• Company: 10X Ascend
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• Quiz: Are You 10X Quiz
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | With your host, Pete McIdas. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 611 with Michael Solomon. |
| 0:23.9 | Michael is sharing how you can get ahead and stay ahead by becoming what he calls a 10X |
| 0:28.2 | talent as in your delivering 10X plus value. |
| 0:32.2 | And people love you, want to keep you and promote you, et cetera. |
| 0:35.4 | So you'll learn one, the one thing that leads to exponential career growth, two, an overlooked |
| 0:40.0 | skill that sets any professional apart and three, the most dangerous thing you could do |
| 0:44.8 | to your career. |
| 0:45.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:48.4 | Reef Reference, drop out by awesome at your job.com slash EP 611 and why you add awesome |
| 0:54.6 | at your job.com. |
| 0:55.6 | And you check out some handy resources such as our gold nugget email list, which provides |
| 0:59.5 | you with summary insight wisdom from Michael and all the guests who've gone before him |
| 1:04.2 | and an email summary. |
| 1:05.5 | You can read it about three minutes, goes right to your inbox and you unlock the vault |
| 1:10.2 | of all of these summary gold nuggets over at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:14.7 | Now here's Michael's story, Michael Solomon is the co-founder of 10X Management. |
| 1:17.9 | The world's first tech talent agency, 10X matches top contract technology, experts, designers |
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