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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

B. CAREER MANAGEMENT. Conquering the Five Career Derailers with Carter Cast

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kellogg professor Carter Cast provides his research on career derailment–and how to prevent it!


— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Two questions to ask yourself to pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses

2) Frequently-occurring risk factors to watch out for

3) The two critical things that put you in the 98 percentile of your company


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— ABOUT CARTER —

Carter Cast is a clinical professor at the Kellogg School of Management. Previously he’s played a pivotal role in building numerous iconic consumer brands including Tostitos Scoops and The Sims. He served as CEO of Walmart.com, growing it to the third largest online retailer in the world. Carter is also a venture partner for Pritzker Group Venture Capital, where he assesses potential investments and advises portfolio companies.

• Carter’s Book: The Right (and Wrong) Stuff

• Carter’s Article: 6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Anam Cara by John O’Donohue

• Book: The Extraordinary Leader by John H Zenger and Joseph Folkman

• Book: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

• Study: Setting the Stage for Success Korn/Ferry 

• Study: For Your Improvement Korn/Ferry

• Prayer: Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the How to Be All about your job introductory episode sampler six-pack.

0:04.2

Here I share favorite examples of each of the key topic categories we cover on the show.

0:08.4

So this is the second where I'll share a taste of how we might cover career management.

0:13.6

So this is all about navigating your situation to find fit and fulfillment and fun.

0:18.9

Ooh, that's a literative, I like it.

0:20.4

And so we'll talk about things like how do you find that fit and learning and

0:23.6

advancements and promotions and raises and even a touch of personal finance managing

0:28.3

your money because that impacts you know what you can do with your career and what

0:31.0

options you have available to you.

0:33.2

So let's hear from Northwestern Professor Carter Cast, who is going to share how to conquer the

0:37.6

five career derailers.

0:39.8

Let's go.

0:41.4

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant

0:45.7

professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to

0:49.1

flourish at work. Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete McKitis.

0:57.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 262 with Carter Cast.

1:06.0

I think you'll find this to be a powerful episode because Carter is laying out what makes a

1:11.4

career flourish versus derail.

1:14.0

You'll learn one.

1:15.1

Two questions to ask yourself to pinpoint

1:17.2

your strengths and weaknesses.

1:18.8

Two, frequently occurring risk factors

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