854: Mastering Your Surprise Career Super Power: Notetaking with Anh Dao Pham
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Anh Dao Pham shares pro tips on developing the most underrated skill that makes a world of difference: note-taking.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why note-taking is a powerful differentiator
2) The four-hour investment that ends up saving hundreds of hours
3) How to synthesize your notes for maximum impact
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— ABOUT ANH —
Anh Dao Pham, VP of Product & Program Management at Edmunds.com, has successfully led technical projects for two decades at start-ups and major corporations. In her book Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged, High-Performing Teams, Anh vividly brings compassionate, positive, nimble leadership to life, demonstrating with actionable guidance, the power of caring and connection to inspire outstanding results.
Anh lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles, California.
• Book: Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged, High-Performing Teams
• Website: GlueLeaders.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee
• Book: On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft) by Stephen King
• Book: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
• TED Talk: Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
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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 with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Episode 854 with Anne Dowfam. |
| 0:23.0 | Anne is coming back rather quickly for her last appearance because she teased an episode on note-taking. |
| 0:29.0 | I asked you all if that's something of interest. Got a bunch of emails back saying, oh yes it is. |
| 0:34.0 | Anne is unveiling your surprise career superpower, which is note-taking. |
| 0:40.0 | So you'll learn why note-taking is a powerful differentiator. |
| 0:43.0 | Two, the four-hour investment that saves you hundreds or thousands of hours over your career |
| 0:49.0 | and three, how to synthesize your notes for maximum impact. |
| 0:53.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we mentioned here, |
| 0:57.0 | visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash EP854. |
| 1:02.0 | And while you're there, you might want to check out some goodies such as the gold nugget emails. |
| 1:07.0 | This is our attempt at some note-taking to summarize the most actionable and powerful wisdom a guest shares in an email you can read in about two or three minutes, |
| 1:18.0 | as well as unlocking the archive of all 854 now of these gold nugget summaries. |
| 1:23.0 | I recommend you check those out. |
| 1:25.0 | Along with other goodies at awesometyourjob.com. |
| 1:28.0 | Now here's a bit about Anne. And Alfam is the VP of product and program management at Edmunds.com. |
| 1:33.0 | And she has successfully led technical projects for two decades at startups and major corporations. |
| 1:38.0 | In her book, Glue, how project leaders create cohesives engaged high-performing teams, |
| 1:43.0 | and vividly brings compassionate, positive, nimble leadership to life demonstrating with actionable guidance |
| 1:49.0 | the power of caring and connection to inspire outstanding results. |
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