942: How to Reach Better Team Decisions with Less Drama with Janice Fraser
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Janice Fraser reveals her secrets to team decision-making with less drama.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to get to the root of any argument
2) How to know if your decision is good enough
3) Why a low consensus isn’t a bad thing
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— ABOUT JANICE —
Janice Fraser has coached teams and delivered workshops to organizations around the world, including startups, governments, non-profits, mom-and-pop shops, venture firms, and top business schools.
She built a storied career as a Silicon Valley startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. Her hobbies include healing generational trauma, challenging the patriarchy, and icing migraines.
Janice and her co-author husband Jason split their time between San Francisco and Minneapolis, where they live with a derpy dog, a bitter cat, and a very tall college student.
• Website: JaniceFraser.com
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• Past episode: 038: Establishing the Essential with Greg McKeown
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The world has so much complexity to it. |
| 0:10.0 | I want us all to be able to be as effective as we possibly can be. |
| 0:14.8 | Well, so much friction and waste results from people arguing over something that they're not actually |
| 0:20.4 | explicitly saying. So instead of arguing over the thing that's the proxy, |
| 0:24.8 | you can have a meaningful conversation to align on the things that really matter. |
| 0:32.2 | If you're trying to disrupt the status quo, then you will be taking risks and a small number of those risks will pay very high returns. |
| 0:47.1 | That's Janice Fraser. |
| 0:48.3 | She's a Silicon Valley veteran |
| 0:49.6 | who is founded and invested in numerous winning startups. |
| 0:52.8 | She's also led innovation and transformation projects at NASA, |
| 0:55.8 | the White House, Procter & Gamble, and many other Fortune 500 companies. |
| 0:59.5 | She's going to share one, how to get to the root of any argument, |
| 1:02.4 | two, how to know if the root of any argument to have enough |
| 1:03.8 | if your decision is good enough and three why a low consensus isn't necessarily a |
| 1:08.5 | bad thing I'm Pete Pekitis this is how to be awesome at your job and now here's Janice. |
| 1:14.0 | Janice welcome. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:17.8 | Oh me too. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm excited to be chatting about farther, faster, and far less drama. And I'd love it if you could kick us off with a tale of a time |
| 1:25.9 | you were enmeshed in a whole lot of drama and how things got turned around well. |
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