Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Makaitas.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 877 of Richard Moran.

Richard has some good wisdom on why small decisions matter and how to make them all the better.

So you'll learn one, the one word to purge from your vocabulary.

Two, the simple trick that makes making decisions easier.

And three, how to use your gut effectively.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced.

Please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep877.

And here's a bit about Richard, Richard A. Moran is a Silicon Valley based business leader workplace pundit bestselling author venture capitalist former CEO and college president.

He's best known for his series of humorous business books beginning with the best selling never confuse a memo with reality and is credited with starting the genre of business bullet books.

His body of work includes 10 books about using common sense and business.

He's the host of the CBS syndicated radio program in the workplace, which has appeared on CNN NPR and most major media outlets.

He continues to work with organizations to help them make better decisions and is an influencer on LinkedIn where he is a regular contributor.

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