811: How to Lead Positive Change and Grow Your Influence with Alex Budak
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Alex Budak shows you how to initiate change at any level.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why you don’t need titles to be a leader
2) The five influence superpowers
3) How to build your leadership skills–one moment at a time
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— ABOUT ALEX —
Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur, faculty member at Berkeley Haas, and the author of Becoming a Changemaker. At UC Berkeley, he created and teaches the transformative course, “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is a Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs.
As a social entrepreneur, Alex co‐founded StartSomeGood, and held leadership positions at Reach for Change and Change.org. He has spoken around the world from Cambodia to Ukraine to the Arctic Circle, and received degrees from UCLA and Georgetown.
• Book: Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level
• Changemaker Index: ChangemakerBook.com/index
• LinkedIn: Alex Budak
• Website: AlexBudak.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives by Christoher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek
• Book: The Long View: Some Thoughts About One of Life's Most Important Lessons by Matthew Kelly
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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. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | With your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 811 with Alex Budeck. |
| 0:23.0 | Alex has some excellent wisdom on how you can lead good change no matter what your level |
| 0:28.2 | or title or role. |
| 0:29.2 | So you'll learn one, well, you don't need titles to be a leader, two, the five influence |
| 0:33.6 | superpowers and three, how to build your leadership skills, one moment at a time. |
| 0:38.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or some of the links to bits |
| 0:41.6 | that we mentioned here, please pace the visit over at awesome at your job.coms.ep 811. |
| 0:48.4 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, you can find all kinds of goodies, such as the |
| 0:51.8 | golden nugget email list, which summarizes the actionable wisdom that I guess shares in |
| 0:56.1 | a quick email. |
| 0:57.1 | You can read it about two or three minutes. |
| 0:59.6 | And you also unlock the whole archive of all of these such summaries called the gold nuggets |
| 1:03.6 | at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:05.1 | Now here's a bit about Alex. |
| 1:06.1 | Alex Budeck is a social entrepreneur faculty member at Berkeley Haas and the author of becoming |
| 1:10.3 | a changemaker at UC Berkeley. |
| 1:12.0 | He created and teaches the transformative course, becoming a changemaker and is a faculty |
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