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How to Be Awesome at Your Job921: Overcoming Failure and Achieving the Impossible with Astronaut Mike MassiminoFormer NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino shares powerful insights on how to push past failure and achieve the impossible. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) The 30-second rule for dealing with failure. 2) The trick to getting along with people you dislike. 3) The most important lesson Mike learned while in space. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep921 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MIKE — Mike Massimino served as a NASA Astronaut from 1996-2014 and flew in space twice for the final two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. He became the first human to tweet from space, was the last human to work inside of...2023-12-0745 min
How to Be Awesome at Your Job921: Overcoming Failure and Achieving the Impossible with Astronaut Mike MassiminoFormer NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino shares powerful insights on how to push past failure and achieve the impossible. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) The 30-second rule for dealing with failure. 2) The trick to getting along with people you dislike. 3) The most important lesson Mike learned while in space. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep921 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MIKE — Mike Massimino served as a NASA Astronaut from 1996-2014 and flew in space twice for the final two Hub...2023-12-0745 minHow to Be Awesome at Your Job919: How to Find Fulfillment, Drive Engagement, and Unlock Your Greatness with Sean PattonSean Patton reveals his warrior mindset to help maximize your potential and performance. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) How to get better at feeling grateful. 2) The root of every workplace failure–and how to overcome it. 3) The coaching approach that really works. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep919 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT SEAN — Sean Patton’s mission is to transform modern leadership into a driver of fulfillment, abundance, and freedom. He applied these principles while growing his own companies and now helps others unlock greatness through Stronger Leaders Stronger Profits, a leadership coaching and consulting company. Sean’s leade...2023-11-3048 minHow to Be Awesome at Your Job919: How to Find Fulfillment, Drive Engagement, and Unlock Your Greatness with Sean PattonSean Patton reveals his warrior mindset to help maximize your potential and performance. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) How to get better at feeling grateful. 2) The root of every workplace failure–and how to overcome it. 3) The coaching approach that really works. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep919 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT SEAN — Sean Patton’s mission is to transform modern leadership into a driver of fulfillment, abundance, and freedom. He applied these principles while growing his own...2023-11-3048 minHow to Be Awesome at Your Job915: How to Maximize the Power of Generational Diversity at Work with Dr. Tim ElmoreTim Elmore reveals the keys to transforming generational differences into opportunities for enhanced collaboration. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) How generalizations across the generations can be both helpful and harmful2) The do’s and don'ts of interacting with each generation3) The keys to turning generational conflict into team harmonySubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep915 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT TIM — Dr. Tim Elmore is founder and CEO of Growing Leaders (www.growingleaders.com), an Atlanta‐based no...2023-11-1347 min
Management MuseMini Episode 16: What Do Tom Cruise and the King of Jordan Have in Common? With Jefferson HowellIn this mini episode, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Jefferson “Beak” Howell shares a few fun stories from his life and relates some lessons on leadership. If you missed his earlier episodes, check out our 3-part series on Crisis Management, episodes 4-6.Timestamps[00:50] General Howell shares a story about Tom Cruise coming over for dinner during a visit to the Johnson Space Center.[06:59] General Howell talks about his surprise promotion to General.[11:43] General Howell shares a story from his time as an infantryman.[22:27] General Howell shares an important leadership less...2022-05-3138 minManagement MuseMini Episode: Thoughts on American Healthcare with Rhonda MundhenkThis mini episode is a standalone conversation that occurred during turnaround episode 12 with Rhonda Mundhenk, Chief Executive Officer of Clinical Health Network for Transformation (CHN). In this mini episode, Rhonda discusses what she would do if given the chance to turn around American healthcare.Episode Highlights· The ways in which social investments and preventative care are central to successful healthcare.· Differences in attitudes about healthcare between the United States and other developed countries.· How America’s focus on treating disease rather than creating health shapes our approach to healthcare.Times...2022-05-3108 minManagement MuseMini Episode 14: The Tooth Fairy Entrepreneur with Nate SelfNote: Not recommended for kids who still believe.This mini-episode of Management Muse is a great story from Nate Self’s Transitions episode 8. We loved the story so much, that we didn’t want it to die during editing. So, here it lives.In this mini-episode, Nate talks about a time his youngest child, Griffin, caused him to suffer an involuntary and abrupt transition.About Nate SelfNate is a former U.S. Army officer and founder of the Praevius Group. Nate graduated from West Point with honors and served on acti...2022-05-3108 minManagement MuseMini Episode 13: Inequality In Healthcare with Welela TereffeThis mini episode is a standalone conversation from the culture episode 2 with Welela Tereffe, M.D., the Chief Medical Executive of the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. In this mini episode, Welela shares important lessons about healthcare inequality, and discusses ways to improve the American healthcare system.Episode Highlights· Why there is a massive racial disparity in U.S. healthcare.· Implicit biases affect the quality of healthcare people of color receive.· How stress and aging take a disproportionate toll on African Americans.· How minority representation in health...2022-05-3126 minManagement MuseTurnarounds: Rhonda Mundhenk Tells Us to Run with The WildebeestManagers are often decent at waging bets, but what if you had to take over a losing hand? Management is hard on a good day, but leading an organizational turnaround takes special skills and a willingness to persist in the face of imposing obstacles. How do you condition yourself to lead an organization when the odds are stacked against you? That’s what we cover on this episode of Management Muse.In this episode, we discuss Organizational Turnarounds with Rhonda Mundhenk. Rhonda is the Chief Executive Officer at Clinical Health Network for Transformation (CHN), and former Chief Ex...2022-05-2449 minManagement MuseOrganizational Change: Solutions In the DumpsterOrganizations move slowly, until they don’t. They resist change, until they can’t. Why? On this episode of Management Musewe discuss an unusual—and unusually powerful—way of thinking about organizations…like they are trash cans! Hosts Cindi Baldi and Geoffrey Tumlin talk about one of the greatest management papers you’ve never read: "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice," the classic article written by Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen.As crazy as it sounds, the trashcan model of organizations makes a lot of sense: Organizations are messy and chaotic. There’s a lo...2022-05-1744 minManagement MuseDeception: Can Lying Be Good? Matt McGlone Makes the CaseTo lie or not to lie, that is today’s question. Deception isn’t always a bad thing—you probably don’t tell your significant other everything.There’s a difference between outright lies—almost always counterproductive and bad—and selective deception, which is not saying something. Sometimes, a little selective deception is a smart management strategy. After all, that’s what having trade secrets is all about. Today's guest on Management Muse, Professor Matthew McGlone, is here to tell us more.The key to leveraging deception in business is to focus on the good, like your good reviews, yo...2022-05-1051 minManagement MuseIncentives: Dodging CarrotsOrganizational incentives are tricky, in at least eight counterproductive ways. This episode of Management Muse is inspired by "On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B," a timeless article written by Steven Kerr in the 1970s, this episode provides eight classic examples of incentives that frequently are either misplaced, distorted or internally inconsistent:1. Demanding teamwork but rewarding individual achievement.2. Valuing diversity but continuing to hire the same types of people.3. Encouraging merit and excellence, but doling out paltry, across-the-board increases that reward no one.4. Rallying employees to show customer l...2022-05-0353 minManagement MuseTransitions With Nate Self: Finding Yourself Is So YesterdayTransitions are tough, even if you are a war hero. In this episode of Management Muse, former U.S. Army Special Operations (Ranger) officer and founder of the management consulting firm Praevius Group, Nate Self, talks about the most challenging transitions in his life, and shares his advice for more smoothly navigating work and home transitions.Episode Highlights Transitions can be: Structured or unstructured, abrupt or deliberate, and voluntary or involuntary. When possible, try to consider the complexities of transitions before making them. Abrupt and involuntary transitions are often particularly jarring. Group membership and other external...2022-04-2643 minManagement MuseManagement Errors: The Shortcut That Is Under ConstructionMistakes are a part of life, but when they happen in business, they can be costly. That's why Management Muse brought you this episode, to help you identify a common management mistake—question substitution error—and to improve your own decision-making skills.Today, Cindi and Geoff discuss substitution error, which happens when our brains unconsciously replace the tougher questions in our day-to-day lives with simpler ones, because our brains are constantly trying to help us find shortcuts.The substitution error occurs at work and at home, and almost happened to Cindi and Geoff as a very...2022-04-1946 minManagement MuseCrisis Management: The Columbia Disaster with Jefferson HowellEncountering crisis as a leader comes with profound challenges. Having the right plan in place can mitigate the hardships that inevitably arise from crisis.In this episode of Management Muse, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Jefferson “Beak” Howell shares his experience leading through crisis and tragedy while Director of the Johnson Space Center during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.Episode Highlights Clear crisis communication plans with well-defined job responsibilities are integral for efficient crisis management. The failures and successes of previous crisis responses should inform responses to future crises. In addition to the increased job...2022-04-1248 minManagement MuseCrisis Management: Noses In Collision with Jefferson HowellGenerations of Marine Corps leaders have been inspired by ethos of honor and respect. But what happens when aspirational maxims crash—in a fraction of a second—with a potentially career-ending collision over the Sea of Japan? The answer, according to Lieutenant General (retired) Jeff Howell, is it gets real, because “the farther you go up the flagpole, the easier it is to get shot down.”Our guest on this episode of the Management Muse, Ret. USMC Lt. Gen. Jefferson Howell, takes us on the roller-coaster ride he experienced when a joint exercise he was leading with Japanese...2022-04-1237 minManagement MuseCrisis Management: Who Slashed My Tires? with Jefferson HowellIn this episode of Management Muse, we’re joined by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Jefferson “Beak” Howell. Beak Howell has managerial experience at all levels of organizations, and he has handled a number of significant crises throughout his distinguished careers in and out of uniform.In this episode, Beak talks about the first crisis he navigated as a squadron commander in the Marines. Beak talks about admitting when you’re wrong and owning up to your mistakes, and he also shares why he believes transparent communication, even in times of crisis, and even when painful, is essentia...2022-04-1229 minManagement MuseLeader Development Inspired by Howard Prince: One Flame, Many CandlesIn today's episode, our topic is leadership development in honor of our mentor Howard T. Prince II, a pioneer in leadership education, who passed away last year. We reflect on Howard’s life and contribution to our understanding of leadership. We talk about three myths that Howard disrupted, about his life in the army and in academia, and what a great person he was to know. Howard was a leader who created thousands of other leaders—a light to many candles. He is deeply missed.Episode Highlights The crucial difference between experience, reflection, and wisdom Building bett...2022-04-0548 minManagement MuseOrganizational Culture: Values Unmasked with Welela TereffeIn this episode of Management Muse, we’re joined by Welela Tereffe, the Chief Medical Executive at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Welela talks about strengthening culture in a large organization and what a healthy work culture looks like. Welela also shares how the pandemic taught her the importance of narrative in bringing together people and improving work culture.Finally, Welela shares how COVID caused people to reprioritize their life’s goals and strengthen their gratitude practices. Welela explains that by openly and consistently communicating with employees in times of uncertainty, you build trust and...2022-04-0548 minManagement MuseDecision Making: Know Who Shouldn’t Hold the Remote Control With Spencer FraseurAre you the kind of person who tries to optimize your decisions, but then often ends up regretting your choice because you might have missed something better? This means you are probably a maximizer. Or are you the kind of person who decides quickly and confidently, and then seldom looks back on decisions with regret? You are probably a satisficer.In this episode of Management Muse, we're joined by Spencer Fraseur, Cindi and Geoff’s nephew, and a doctoral candidate in management at the University of Texas at Arlington. In this episode, the Muse dives into the di...2022-04-0545 min