799: The Unspoken Rules of High Performers and High Potentials with Gorick Ng

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Gorick Ng lays out the unspoken rules and expectations of managers that explain why top performers get ahead.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The three questions everyone is asking about you

2) The A+ way to ask for help

3) The mentality that keeps professionals from progressing

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— ABOUT GORICK —

Gorick Ng is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, a book published by Harvard Business Review Press. It is a guide to help professionals, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, take control of their careers, based on 500+ interviews with professionals across geographies, industries, and job types. Gorick is a career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He has worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), investment banking at Credit Suisse, and research with the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School. He has been featured in The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, New York Post, Fast Company, and CNBC. He was named by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers to watch in 2022. Gorick, a first-generation college student, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

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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.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to episode 799 with Gorik Eng.
0:24.2	Gorik has done some deep research and goes into such delicious detail to unveil what
0:30.6	are the unspoken rules of high performers and high potentials, these expectations that
0:36.3	are frequently unfortunately not articulated aloud and yet are running the show behind
0:41.8	the scenes.
0:42.8	See, I'll learn one, the three questions everyone's asking about you to the A plus way to ask
0:47.8	for help.
0:48.8	And three, the mentality that keeps professionals from progressing.
0:52.6	If you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that
0:55.0	we mentioned here, please drop them by awesome at your job.com slash EP 799.
1:00.2	And while you're there, check out some goodies like the Goldnugget email list, which provides
1:03.7	a summary right up of the actual wisdom, Gorik shares in an email.
1:07.5	You can read in about two minutes, as well as unlocking the vault of all of these summaries.
1:11.8	That's called the Goldnuggets over at awesometyourjob.com.
1:15.2	Now here's Gorik's story, Gorik Eng is the Wall Street general bestselling author of
1:18.9	the unspoken rules, secrets to starting your career off right.
1:22.3	A book published by Harvard Business Review Press.
1:24.7	It's a guide to help professionals, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds,
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