634: How to Get Ahead in Your Career by Developing Your Professional Value with Don Miller
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Don Miller shares how to advance your career even without the need for a fancy title or degree.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The critical skills an MBA doesn’t teach you
2) The harsh truth every professional must accept to succeed
3) How to craft a compelling business case
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— ABOUT DON —
Donald Miller is the CEO of Business Made Simple (BusinessMadeSimple.com), an online platform that teaches business professionals everything they need to know to grow a business and enhance their personal value on the open market. He is the host of the Business Made Simple Podcast and is the author of several books including the bestseller Building a StoryBrand. He lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Elizabeth.
• Don’s book: Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution and More. Email your Amazon receipts to book@businessmadesimple.com to receive a free mini-course!
• Don’s website: BusinessMadeSimple.com
• Don’s planner: HeroOnAMission.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Book: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 634 with Don Miller. |
| 0:23.6 | Don is going to share some brutal, candid truths about how to advance your career. |
| 0:29.0 | You don't need a fancy, titular degree, but you do need to adopt some core, fundamental |
| 0:34.4 | business principles. |
| 0:35.4 | So you'll learn one, the critical skills at NBA does not teach you to the harsh truth. |
| 0:40.6 | Every professional must accept to succeed. |
| 0:43.0 | And three, how to craft a compelling business case. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes with the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:48.2 | you've referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash F634. |
| 0:52.9 | And this might be a great episode to remind you about our gold nugget email summaries. |
| 0:57.0 | Don dropped a lot of truth. |
| 0:59.5 | You might be fiercely taking notes. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, we take those notes for you with the gold nuggets, which provides a summary wisdom |
| 1:06.2 | right up of the guests insights in an email you can read in about three minutes. |
| 1:12.1 | If you're reading every word, you can skim it faster if you like. |
| 1:14.9 | We do some nice selective building to make it easier for you skimmers. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you sign up for the gold nuggets, you also unlock the vault of all 634 guest summary |
| 1:24.6 | gold nuggets. |
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