682: How to Boost Your Results Through Extreme Productivity with Robert Pozen
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Robert Pozen shares his key tips for effective prioritization and how you can make meetings easier.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The schedule hack for efficient prioritization
2) The system to make your email work for you
3) How to say “no” to a meeting
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— ABOUT ROBERT —
Robert C. Pozen teaches at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he offers courses to executives on personal productivity. He was president of Fidelity Investments and executive chair of MFS Investment Management, and served as a senior official in both federal and state government. His seven books include Extreme Productivity, a top-rated business title that has been translated into 10 languages. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and was on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Book: Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
• Book: Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are
• Book Website: RemoteIncBook.com
• Website: BobPozen.com
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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 so much for joining us here for episode 682 with Bob Pozen. |
| 0:23.0 | Bob brings a wealth of experience as a former busy executive and cherished, |
| 0:29.0 | amazingly on-time writer for the Harvard Business Review, |
| 0:32.0 | and shares some of his simple yet immensely valuable wisdom to achieve extreme productivity. |
| 0:40.0 | Still, learn one, the schedule hack for efficient prioritization. |
| 0:43.0 | Two, the system to make your email work for you. |
| 0:45.0 | And three, how to say no to a meeting. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes, |
| 0:49.0 | or the transcript or the links to how to be referenced, |
| 0:51.0 | drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP682. |
| 0:55.0 | And while that awesome at your job.com, take a spin around. |
| 0:58.0 | A lot of cool resources like searching the full text transcripts, |
| 1:01.0 | or email summaries of these episodes. |
| 1:03.0 | Good stuff. |
| 1:04.0 | And awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:05.0 | And here's Bob's story. |
| 1:06.0 | Robert C. Pozen teaches at MIT Sloan School of Management, |
| 1:09.0 | where he offers courses to executives on personal productivity. |
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