Tanya Menon: ...to think about the kind of connections you'd like to have at the end of your life
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Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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You may need to break out of your social comfort zone in order to find new opportunities in life! Hear more about that from Tanya Menon, an organizational researcher who studies how people think about relationships, and how this affects the way they make decisions, collaborate, and lead at work. She is Professor of Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. Her research on decision making, influence, culture, teams, and networks has been cited in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Financial Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me, I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. Our guest for this segment, |
| 0:17.8 | Tanya Menion, believes that the secret to great opportunities lies in the person you haven't met yet. |
| 0:23.8 | We want to find out more about that and how it applies to our lives as we talk with Tanya, who's an organizational researcher specializing in decision making, influence, culture, teams, and networks. |
| 0:35.9 | She's an associate professor at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. |
| 0:41.6 | Tanya, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:43.9 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:45.4 | You say we are socially narrow in our lives and in our work. |
| 0:51.2 | Explain more about that. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.6 | So when we think about how we connect with other people, |
| 1:05.9 | we actually don't think about it very much. We're not very intentional in how we think about it. |
| 1:12.2 | And so what ends up happening is we filter quite, quite narrowly. |
| 1:18.3 | So we make very rapid, almost automatic decisions about who is relevant to us, who is not relevant to us, who we like, who we feel comfortable with. |
| 1:21.4 | And before we know it, we find ourselves in very close, narrow circles with people who are basically our twins. |
| 1:31.3 | Interesting. So how do we pay the price for having such a narrow group of friends and associates? |
| 1:37.0 | For example, when we get in trouble or when we need a job? So there's certain advantages of living in Click and network researchers. One of the things that |
| 1:49.3 | psychologists, network researchers, all through social sciences, people point to is the fact |
| 1:55.0 | that you get tremendous support from people who are in your clique, people who are like you, |
| 1:59.8 | people who are similar to you, people who you like you, people who are similar to you, |
| 2:00.9 | people who you've connected with very, very deeply. |
| 2:04.1 | The problem is when you need new opportunities. |
| 2:07.2 | The problem is when you need new ideas, when you're on creativity, when you want to be |
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