793: The Six Mind Shifts for Thriving at Work with Aliza Knox
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Aliza Knox breaks down the six critical shifts that help turn around an unpleasant work situation.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to stay enthusiastic in the face of work hardships
2) What to do when you feel stagnant
3) How to engineer serendipity for your career
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— ABOUT ALIZA —
Aliza built and led APAC businesses for Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. She is a BCG advisor, Forbes columnist, and board director. Called a “Kick Ass Woman Slaying the World of Tech”, Aliza wrote Don't Quit Your Day Job, outlining 6 mindshifts you need to rise & thrive at work as part of her commitment to empowering the next generation of leaders. She’s in the Top 100 Women in Tech, Singapore and was named IT Woman of the Year Asia, 2020.
• Book: Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Six Mind Shifts You Need to Rise and Thrive at Work.
• Article: “The New Meaning Of CEO: Chief Empathy Officer - 4 Reasons Leaders Need Empathy Now”
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• Twitter: @alizaknox
• Website: AlizaKnox.com
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• Study: “How Job Crafting Can Make Work More Satisfying” by Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
• Study: “The Power of Empathy in Times of Crisis and Beyond” by Tara Van Bommel, PhD
• Book: Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
• Book: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
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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 to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings and thanks for joining us here for episode 793 with Aliza Knox. |
| 0:24.0 | Aliza shares six critical shifts to help you turn around |
| 0:28.0 | in unpleasant work situations. |
| 0:30.0 | So learn one, how to stay enthusiastic in the face of work hardships. |
| 0:34.0 | Two, what to do when you feel stagnant. |
| 0:36.0 | And three, how to engineer serendipity for your career. |
| 0:39.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've mentioned, please. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey, so visit over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep793. |
| 0:47.0 | And while you're there, check out some goodies like the Golden Nuggets, |
| 0:50.0 | which let you get a summary email of the actionable wisdom Aliza shared as well as unlocking the vault |
| 0:56.0 | of all 793 of these writeups. |
| 0:59.0 | You can find those over at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:02.0 | Now here's Aliza's story. Aliza built and led businesses for Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. |
| 1:07.0 | She's a BCG advisor for its columnist and board director called a kick ass woman slaying the world of tech. |
| 1:14.0 | Aliza wrote, don't quit your day job outlining six mindships. |
| 1:17.0 | You need to rise and thrive at work as part of her commitment to empower the next generation of leaders. |
| 1:23.0 | She's on the top 100 women in tech Singapore and was named IT woman of the year Asia in 2020. |
| 1:29.0 | Now here's Aliza. Aliza, welcome to how to be awesomeat your job. |
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