900: Six Mindsets For Thriving in Uncertain Times with Charles Conn

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Charles Conn shares how to be strategic and make breakthroughs when things are uncertain.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How talented people unknowingly self-sabotage.

2) The simple question that leads to clever breakthroughs.

3) How to communicate your ideas so people will care.

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— ABOUT CHARLES —

Charles Conn is an investor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Monograph, a venture firm, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He is Board Chair of Patagonia and sits on The Nature Conservancy European Council. He was founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch, and was a partner at McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Boston Universities.

He is co-author with Robert McLean of Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, published with Wiley in 2019, a best-seller now in six languages, and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times, 2023.

• Book: Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything (website)

• Book: The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times (website)

• LinkedIn: Charles Conn

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “M.B.A. Students vs. ChatGPT: Who Comes Up With More Innovative Ideas?” by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich (and full-text PDF of paper)

• Website: Kaggle

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Book: Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert Updegraff

• Book: The Selfish Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins

• Book: Biodiversity by E. O. Wilson

• Past episode: 896: Finding More Success and Joy in Everything You Do with Suneel Gupta

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Transcript

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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.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McHydus.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 900.
0:23.0	Big Dines 00 with Charles Khan.
0:26.0	Charles has had an extremely impressive career.
0:28.0	He knows a boatload about problem solving and thriving in uncertain times.
0:32.0	And he shares some power tools that can aid you in many, many circumstances
0:38.0	in which you are trying to figure out what the heck is going on,
0:42.0	finding the right answer, communicating it well, such that folks respond
0:46.0	and great things can happen.
0:48.0	So you'll learn one, how talented people unknowingly self-sabotage.
0:52.0	Two, the simple question that leads to clever breakthroughs.
0:55.0	And three, how to communicate your ideas so people actually care.
0:59.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced here,
1:02.0	please drop on by awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep900.
1:06.0	Now here's a little bit about Charles.
1:08.0	Charles Khan is an investor, environmentalist and entrepreneur.
1:11.0	He's a kill founder of monograph, a venture firm, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford.
1:17.0	He's board chair of Patagonia and sits on the Nature Conservancy European Council.
1:22.0	He was founding CEO of ticket master's city search and was a partner at McKinsey Company.
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