I have the pleasure this week of welcoming Erica Dhawan to the show.
Erica is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that accelerates the connectedness of employees, teams, customers and clients.
Through keynote speaking, training and consulting, she teaches business leaders and companies innovative strategies to create increasing value for customers and clients, deliver sustainable results and ensure future global competitiveness.
She writes for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company and the Huffington Post. And, she is the co-author (along with Saj-Nicole Joni) of Get BIG Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.
Get Big Things Done provides the much needed answer to the yearning question of how to connect intelligently in today’s world, so that we can unleash our full human potential and accomplish remarkable results.
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In today’s episode, Erica will share:
- What Connectional Intelligence means and what the process looks like
- Why she believes that Connectional Intelligence can be practiced by anyone
- The power of not just sharing problems but designing them in such a way that many people want to pitch in and solve them…
- And much more!
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Erica Dhawan’s New Book
You can pre-order your copy of Get BIG Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence right now!
Erica Dhawan in Action
Books Erica Recommends
Choose Yourself by James Altucher
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jeff mentioned Become an Idea Machine: Because They are the Currency of the 21st Century by Claudia Azula Altucher
Resources Mentioned
The best place to find out more about Erica is on her website.
Erica has created a website just for the new book.
Find out more about Cotential, the company Erica founded (she serves as CEO).
Follow Erica on Twitter…@edhawan.
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