671: How to Make Change Happen Faster, Easier, and Better with Jake Jacobs
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jake Jacobs reveals why organizational change doesn’t have to be difficult and provides key levers that make the difference.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to keep change from becoming overwhelming
2) The hack to accelerate change
3) How leaders accidentally kill enthusiasm for change
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— ABOUT JAKE —
Jake Jacobs helps organizations, teams, and individuals make monumental changes. He’s worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing. He’s consulted for 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to community theaters and supported more than 210,000 people in changing strategy, creating cultures, and mergers and acquisitions.
Jake has partnered with CEOs, front-line workers and middle management at Ford, Kraft and Marriott. He’s also helped create change in the City of New York, U.K.’s National Health Service, and the United States Army and Navy.
Clients call Jake when they need faster, easier, better results.
• Book: Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results
• LinkedIn: Jake Jacobs
• Website: JakeJacobsConsulting.com
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• Book: Preferred Futuring by Lawrence Lippitt
• Book: The Practical Theorist: The Life and Work of Kurt Lewin by Alfred Jay Marrow
• Theory: The Zeigarnik Effect
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 671 with Jake Jacobs. |
| 0:24.0 | Jake has some fantastic perspectives on how to make change faster, |
| 0:29.0 | easier, and better. |
| 0:30.0 | So you'll learn one, how to keep change from becoming overwhelming. |
| 0:33.0 | Two, the hack to accelerate change. |
| 0:35.0 | And three, how leaders accidentally kill enthusiasm for change. |
| 0:39.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we mentioned here, |
| 0:43.0 | please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep671. |
| 0:48.0 | And if you had awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out our gold nugget email summaries, |
| 0:53.0 | which give you a nice write up of Jake's wisdom. |
| 0:56.0 | You can read in about three minutes. |
| 0:58.0 | It goes right to your inbox when episodes come out and unlocks the vault of all such summaries. |
| 1:04.0 | That's called the gold nuggets over at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:07.0 | Now here's Jake's story. |
| 1:08.0 | Jake Jacobs helps organizations, teams, and individuals make monumental changes. |
| 1:12.0 | He's worked in 61 industries from high tech to manufacturing. |
| 1:15.0 | He's consulted for 96 organizations from Fortune 50 to community theaters |
| 1:19.0 | and supported more than 210,000 people in changing strategy, |
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