931: How to Overcome Obstacles and Kickstart Change with R. Michael Anderson
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
R. Michael Anderson shares how vulnerability can be your greatest strength as a leader.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why to be more open about your struggles
2) The drivers behind your worst decisions
3) The key relationship that everyone overlooks
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— ABOUT MICHAEL —
R. Michael Anderson, MBA, MA has a striking combination that creates truly impactful transformation in leaders – he has the real-life business success of founding, scaling and exiting three software companies, plus the educational background of a Masters Degree in Psychology.
This combination gives him the unique ability to connect to other leaders as a peer, then teaches evidence-based leadership skills that genuinely drive behaviour and performance.
With his background in psychology and neuroscience, he transforms managers into true leaders with high-performing teams in high-growth companies. He’s written two best-selling business leadership books, contributes to Entrepreneur.com, and is a former radio-show host.
• Book: Leadership Mindset 2.0: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Reaching your Full Potential
• Book site: LeadershipMindsetTheBook.com
• Website: RMichaelAnderson.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Family Secrets - The Path from Shame to Healing by John Bradshaw
• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Past episode: 104: Overcoming Self-limiting Beliefs with R. Michael Anderson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Instead of self-medicating, I went for a job. |
| 0:10.0 | I met things head on and I made a commitment to myself and I'm going to figure this life thing and this business thing out. |
| 0:15.2 | That was a turning point in my life. I know there's a lot of high achievers and people that are really driven and |
| 0:21.2 | chances are you're like me you're your own hardest critic and |
| 0:25.2 | just give yourself a break you do so many amazing things just focus on them and when you mess up |
| 0:29.6 | here or there because you probably will because you're a risk taker just give yourself some slack. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm actually okay when I make mistakes or if people don't like me because it's like |
| 0:40.0 | look here I am you may like me you may not like me. |
| 0:43.6 | Sometimes there's parts of myself that maybe not be ideal, |
| 0:47.0 | but I have this massive compassion for myself |
| 0:49.9 | and this acceptance that trumps everything else. |
| 0:53.8 | That's our Michael Anderson. |
| 0:55.3 | He helps transform leaders through psychology and neuroscience. |
| 0:58.3 | He's helped countless managers turn into true leaders of outstanding teams |
| 1:01.9 | and today he shares his inspiring story with insights to help |
| 1:05.2 | whether you're looking to turn around yourself or your team. So you'll learn one, why to be more open |
| 1:10.6 | about your struggles? Two, the drivers behind your worst decisions. And three, the key |
| 1:15.9 | relationship that everyone overlooks. I'm Pete McKitus. This is how to be awesome at your job. |
| 1:21.1 | And now here's our Michael Anderson. |
| 1:23.0 | Michael, welcome back. |
| 1:25.0 | Pete, good to be here again. |
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