At work, we're often placing bets.

Which direction to take, which project to prioritize, which problems to surface, and which to sit on.

But how often do we really think about how to improve our odds of success?

Today's episode is a bit of a kickstart for you.

Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise,

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So as a kid, and yes, I am about to date myself, my brother and I were big Nintendo players, like the OG system. My fave was Legends of Zelda, but I digress. I don't remember a ton

of details about playing those games, but I do remember this.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left right.

If you know, you know.

That was a cheat code.

At the beginning of certain games, you would press that series of buttons on your remote to get a bunch of extra lives.

Cheat codes are, at least by my definition, things that we do that are relatively

simple, but yield pretty big advantages. Like, why wouldn't you do them? In video games, they're

pretty obvious, but in the workplace, maybe less so. But these days, as so many of us are feeling

wiped or burned or unsteady, let's talk about some

ways we can better inoculate ourselves against unfortunate outcomes. You know, give ourselves a few

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