939: How to Waste Less Time on Meetings…and Spend More Time on Strategy with Rich Horwath
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Rich Horwath reveals how to cut through the busywork and make more time for strategy.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What being “strategic” really means
2) The critical questions that determine what truly matters
3) Why most meetings are useless—and how to fix them
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— ABOUT RICH —
Rich Horwath is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books on strategic thinking and has been rated the #1 keynote speaker on strategy at national conferences, including the Society for Human Resource Management Strategy Conference.
He has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV to provide commentary on the strategic aspects of current events and his work has appeared in publications including Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review.
A former Chief Strategy Officer and professor of strategy, Rich has created more than 700 resources to help leaders at all levels maximize their strategic potential. He designed the Strategic Quotient (SQ) Assessment, a validated tool to measure how effectively a person thinks, plans, and acts strategically. Rich created the Strategic Fitness System as an online platform for leaders to practice the skills to effectively navigate all areas of their business, including strategy, leadership, organization, and communication.
• Book: Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence
• Website: StrategySkills.com
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• Book: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Strategy isn't just what's written in the PowerPoint deck, |
| 0:10.0 | it's how each and every one of us spend our time. |
| 0:13.6 | So all of us out there are strategists. |
| 0:15.9 | The key is to really understand, |
| 0:17.8 | are we putting our time into the priorities |
| 0:20.4 | that are really gonna drive value? |
| 0:23.0 | Great strategies as much about what we choose not to do |
| 0:26.0 | as it is about what we choose to do. |
| 0:29.0 | So the best leaders I've seen are really crystal clear for themselves and their team on here the areas and things that we're not going to spend our time on. |
| 0:40.6 | If you can identify that 20% of things that's going to drive 80% of the value, that's going to be a great ticket to being as effective as possible. |
| 0:51.0 | That's Rich Horworth. He's authored eight books on strategy and has been |
| 0:55.2 | rated as the number one keynote speak-run strategy. He's created over 700 |
| 0:59.9 | resources to help leaders maximize their strategic potential to achieve more of what really matters. |
| 1:05.6 | So you'll learn one, what being strategic even really means. |
| 1:09.1 | Two, the critical questions that determine what truly matters, |
| 1:12.7 | and three, why most meetings are useless |
| 1:15.7 | and how to fix them. I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job, |
| 1:19.6 | and now here's Rich. |
| 1:22.0 | Rich, welcome. |
| 1:23.0 | Pete, thanks, great to be with you today. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, I'm excited to dig into your wisdom that you put forward in your book Strategic. |
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