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**How to Be Awesome at Your Job**

Get more fun, wins, meaning, and money from your job! With 25,000,000 downloads and mentions in *The New York Times*, *Forbes*, and *Linkedin Learning.* This show helps grow your skills and impact at any job that requires thinking and collaborating.

Each week, Pete interviews thought-leaders and results-getters to discover specific, actionable insights that boost work performance. Their stories and advice sharpen the universal skills to flourish at work. Boost your time/energy management, leadership, confidence, career opportunities, and fulfillment—while still getting home earlier.

Try starting with episode 0: START HERE and listener favorite episodes we put at the beginning numbered: A, B, C, D, E, and F. (Subscribe and/or sort Old to New to find these starter episodes.) Welcome!

Latest Episodes:

980: Building the Habits of Mentally Strong Leaders with Scott Mautz Jul 22, 2024

Show notes

Scott Mautz shares powerful strategies to stay confident and in control when negativity strikes.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to wisely managed doubt–and confidence

2) The early warning signs of self-acceptance being degraded

3) The three-step solution to reset negative chatter

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— ABOUT SCOTT —

Scott Mautz is a high-octane speaker expert at igniting peak performance and deep employee engagement, motivation, and inspiration. He’s a Procter & Gamble veteran who successfully ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses, an award-winning/best-selling author, faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for Executive Education, a popular instructor on LinkedIn Learning where his courses have been taken over 1.5 million times, and a frequent national publication and podcast guest.

• Book: The Mentally Strong Leader: Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors

• Website: ScottMautz.com. Listeners can get the Mental Strength Self-Assessment for free at ScottMautz.com/mentallystronggift!

• Article: “Following the 90:10 Rule Will Make You Noticeably More Self-Confident”

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Website: Unsplash

• Book: Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford

• Book: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

• Book: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

• Previous episode: 270: Reclaiming Workplace Inspiration with Scott Mautz

• Previous episode: 669: Making More Impact as a Middle Manager with Scott Mautz

• Previous episode: 945: How to Master Your Inner World and Flourish During Stress with Mawi Asgedom

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979: Building Greater Trust and Connection through Storytelling with Scott Mann Jul 18, 2024

Show notes

Retired Green Beret Scott Mann shares battle-tested strategies for motivating people in low-trust, high-stakes environments.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why storytelling is super powerful

2) The key shift that makes stories memorable

3) How to regulate emotions (both yours and others)

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— ABOUT SCOTT —

Lt. Col. Scott Mann is a retired Green Beret with over twenty-two years of Army and Special Operations experience around the world, and a New York Times bestselling author. He has deployed to Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is the CEO of Rooftop Leadership and the founder of a 501c3, The Heroes Journey, committed to helping veterans tell their stories in transition. Scott regularly speaks to and trains corporate leaders, law enforcement, and special operations forces on best practices for going local, storytelling, and making better human connections.

Scott has frequent appearances on Fox News, CNN, and other national platforms as a thought leader on building organizational relationships, restoring trust in our communities, and a range of national security issues. He is also an actor and playwright who has written a play about the war called Last Out—Elegy of a Green Beret on Amazon Prime. Scott lives in Florida with his wife Monty where they are deepening their skills on empty nesting.

• Book: Nobody Is Coming to Save You: A Green Beret's Guide to Getting Big Sh*t Done

• Website: ScottMann.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Lifeby Stuart Diamond

• Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On Itby Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

• Previous episode: 311: Communication Secrets from FBI Kidnapping Negotiator Chris Voss

• Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

• Book: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?by Jared Diamond

• Play: “Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret”

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978: Crafting Your Personal Resilience Plan for Beating Burnout with with Marie-Hélène Pelletier Jul 15, 2024

Show notes

Marie-Hélène Pelletier argues that resilience isn’t a trait and provides a customizable path to develop yours.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why no one should assume they’re resilient

2) How to design your Resilience Plan

3) The tiny actions that build big resilience

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— ABOUT MARIE-HÉLÈNE —

Throughout her career in business management and psychology, Dr. Pelletier has spearheaded the dialogue on the crucial issues of leadership resilience and work performance. Drawing on her extensive background in corporate, insurance, governance and public sectors, she brings an international perspective and unique expertise on leadership. She is a practicing leadership psychologist and executive coach with over 20 years of experience and holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

Marie-Hélène is a Member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, and past Director on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She has presented and authored and co-authored a number of industry and academic publications and has won numerous academic and industry awards. In 2024, Dr. Pelletier published her award-winning book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health.

• Book: The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health

• LinkedIn: Marie-Hélène Pelletier

• Website: TheResiliencePlan.com

• Worksheets: The Resilience Plan Worksheets

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

• Research: "Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation" by Edwin Locke and Gary Latham

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977: What Makes Leaders Bad—and What You Can Do About It–with Dr. Barbara Kellerman Jul 11, 2024

Show notes

Dr. Barbara Kellerman explores the roots of bad leadership and offers strategic tips for challenging it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Where leadership training falls short

2) The two core components of “bad” leadership

3) Four tips for standing up to bad leaders

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— ABOUT BARBARA —

Barbara Kellerman was Founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Kennedy’s School’s James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership; and a member of the Harvard faculty for over twenty years. She is currently a Fellow at the Center.

Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in Political Science) degrees from Yale University. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. Kellerman was cofounder of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and is author and editor of many books. She’s appeared on numerous media outlets and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

She received the Wilbur M. McFeeley Award from the National Management Association for her pioneering work on leadership and followership, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association. From 2015 to 2024 she has been ranked by Global Gurus as among the “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals.”

• Book: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good)

• Book: Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers

• Book: Professionalizing Leadership

• Website: BarbaraKellerman.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Documents: The Federalist Papers

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976: How (and When) to Freely Speak Your Mind with Elaine Lin Hering Jul 08, 2024

Show notes

Elaine Lin Hering discusses why to stop censoring yourself at work—and how to strategically do that.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The massive costs of keeping quiet

2) The fundamental question that helps you speak up wisely

3) The subtle ways we silence others—and how to stop

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— ABOUT ELAINE —

Elaine Lin Hering works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on six continents and facilitated executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She is the former Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and lecturer at Harvard Law School. She is the author of the USA Today Bestselling book Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully.

• Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

• Website: ElaineLinHering.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups”

• Book: Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without A Bullhorn by Omkari Williams

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975: Elevating Leadership through Radical Humility with Urs Koenig Jul 01, 2024

Show notes

Urs Koenig reveals how to level up your leadership through the five shifts of radical humility.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why leaders win more when they’re humble

2) Two tricks to getting better quality feedback

3) How to make any tough conversation less intimidating

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— ABOUT URS —

Urs is a former United Nations military peacekeeper and NATO military peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultraendurance champion, a widely published professor, bestselling author, and a seasoned executive coach and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience helping hundreds of leaders and dozens of executive teams unlock new levels of achievement across four continents.

He is the founder of the Radical Humility Leadership Institute and speaks frequently on the topic of leadership to corporations and associations across the globe. His message of Radical Humility in leadership has inspired teams from across the spectrum, including Amazon, Starbucks, the Society of Human Resource Management, Vistage, the University of Melbourne, and Microsoft.

He holds a PhD in geography and a Master of Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Urs is the loving father of two teenage boys who make commanding soldiers look easy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

• Book: Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human

• LinkedIn: Urs Koenig

• Website: UrsKoenig.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Lansing

• Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety

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974: The Eight Inner Skills to Career Happiness with Stella Grizont Jun 27, 2024

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Stella Grizont shares the simple things everyone can do to feel happier and more fulfilled every day.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The master key for overcoming toxic situations

2) The key response that builds quality relationships

3) How to set healthy boundaries without feeling guilty

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— ABOUT STELLA —

Time Magazine named Stella a leading happiness expert. As a speaker and executive coach, Stella works with leaders who are seeking deeper career fulfillment and with organizations that are dedicated to elevating the well-being and engagement of their employees. Her debut book based on her signature coaching program, The Work Happiness Method: Master the 8 Skills to Career Fulfillment, was an instant USA Today Bestseller.

In the last 17 years, Stella has coached over 1,800 individuals in over 30 countries. Stella was one of the first 150 people in the world to earn a master's in Applied Positive Psychology (aka the science of happiness) from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter, and son, who continue to teach her what life is all about.

• Book: The Work Happiness Method: Master the 8 Skills to Career Fulfillment

• Exercise: VisionGenerator.com

• Website: StellaGrizont.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: World Happiness Report 2024

• Tools: Gable's Four Responses to Good News

• Book: "Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred" by Mark Nepo

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

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973: Mastering the New Rules of Persuasion with Leslie Zane Jun 24, 2024

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Leslie Zane reveals why traditional persuasion tactics often fall short—and offers a new alternative that’s more effective.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why most attempts at persuasion fall short

2) How to bypass resistance with triggers

3) The unexpected people who will drive your success

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— ABOUT LESLIE —

Leslie Zane is an award-winning marketer, TEDx speaker and the foremost authority in harnessing the instinctive mind to accelerate brand and business growth. In 1995, she founded Triggers®, a CMO advisory and the first brand consulting firm rooted in behavioral science, where she continued to champion the primacy of the instinctive mind in brand decisions. With her groundbreaking discoveries in boosting salience, the Brand Connectome® and Growth Triggers®, Zane and her team have delivered over 2X incremental revenue growth for their Fortune 100 clients. Today, Triggers’ strategies are evident in diverse fields from consumer-packaged goods, health care and insurance.

An alumna of Yale, Harvard Business School and Bain & Company, Zane is a recipient of the Congressional Women of Distinction and the Ogilvy Award. In 2021, she coined the term “Covid-stasis” forecasting the pandemic’s lasting psychological and behavioral effects. Zane has been published in prestigious publications including Knowledge@Wharton, Harvard Business Review, World Economic Forum, Newsweek and Ad Age. Zane is a board member of El Centro Hispano, the leading non-profit empowering Hispanic immigrants with skills to thrive in the United States.

• Book: The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life

• Book site: ThePowerOfInstinctBook.com

• LinkedIn: Leslie Zane

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Measure: A Read with Jenna Pick by Nikki Erlick

• Movie Scene: Planes,Trains and Automobiles (1987), curtain earrings

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972: Amy Edmondson on How to Fail Well Jun 20, 2024

Show notes

Amy Edmondson shares how to minimize unproductive failures and maximize intelligent ones.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What separates good failure from bad failure

2) The surprisingly simple tool that prevents many failures

3) How to stay motivated in the face of failure

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— ABOUT AMY —

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked with founder and CEO Larry Wilson to design change programs in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and innovation in the built environment remains an area of enduring interest and passion.

• Book: Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

• Website: AmyCEdmondson.com

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— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process” by Lee Ross

• Book: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

• Book: The Road to Character by David Brooks

• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety

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971: Mastering The Three Keys to Getting Noticed with Jay Baer Jun 17, 2024

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Jay Baer discusses how professionals can use the principles of excellent customer experience to stand out above the rest.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why it pays to reply super fast

2) The best way to recover from a mistake

3) Why competency won’t get you noticed—and what does

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— ABOUT JAY —

Jay Baer is a 7th-generation entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author of seven books, and founder of six multi-million dollar companies. In 2023, he was named a Top 30 Global Guru in both Customer Experience and in Marketing. Jay has advised more than 700 brands in his career, including Nike, Oracle, Hilton, The United Nations and 40 of the FORTUNE 500.

He is an inductee into the professional speaking and word of mouth marketing halls of fame. Jay has authored or co-authored among the best-selling business books of all-time in the categories of digital marketing, customer service, customer experience, and business growth. He has been named to more than 50 top global business influencer lists. Jay’s books are known for deep, first-party research combined with unique, compelling case studies, and a heavy sprinkling of humor.

• Book: Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers

• Book: Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth

• Book: The Time to Win: How to Exceed Your Customers’ Need for Speed

• Book: Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype

• Website: JayBaer.com

• Website: TequilaJayBaer.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

• Past episode: 950: Cal Newport: Slowing Down to Boost Productivity and Ease Stress

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