820: How to Solve Tough Problems through Both/And Thinking with Marianne Lewis
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Marianne Lewis shows how to turn tensions into opportunities for growth.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why to never ask yourself “Should I…?”
2) How to find and benefit from the yin and yang of everything
3) The three steps for better decision-making
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— ABOUT MARIANNE —
Marianne W. Lewis is dean and professor of management at the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati. She previously served as dean of Cass (recently renamed Bayes) Business School at City, University of London, and as a Fulbright scholar. A thought leader in organizational paradoxes, she explores tensions and competing demands surrounding leadership and innovation.
Lewis has been recognized among the world’s most-cited researchers in her field (Web of Science) and received the Paper of the Year award (2000) and Decade Award (2021) from the Academy of Management Review. She enjoys her three children and two grandchildren from her home base in Cincinnati.
• Book: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
• Website: BothAndThinking.net
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
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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 McHydus. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to Episode 820 with Mary Ann Lewis. |
| 0:23.0 | Mary Ann has some excellent wisdom, really good perspectives. |
| 0:26.7 | So whenever you're thinking through problems, how to think through them better, solve them |
| 0:31.2 | faster and with more fun, creativity, and good vibes and outcomes, you'll learn one, |
| 0:36.5 | why to never ask yourself, should I? |
| 0:39.4 | As in should I do this or that? |
| 0:41.0 | How to find the benefit from the in and yang of everything and the three steps for better |
| 0:46.0 | decision making. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:49.3 | we mentioned, please visit us over awesome at your job.com slash ep820. |
| 0:54.3 | And while they check out some goodies like the transcripts, the email goodies, and more, |
| 0:59.5 | at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:01.0 | Now here's Mary Ann Lewis's story, Mary Ann W. Lewis is dean and professor of management |
| 1:05.8 | at the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. |
| 1:09.8 | She previously served as dean of CAS, recently renamed Bayes, School of Business at City University |
| 1:14.6 | of London, and as a full bright scholar, a thought leader in organizational paradoxes that |
| 1:18.4 | she explores tensions and competing demands surrounding leadership and innovation. |
| 1:22.4 | Lewis has been recognized among the world's most cited researchers in her field and received |
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