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238: 8 Surefire Ways to Dramatically Grow Your Business by Becoming the Obvious Choice

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In today’s solo episode, I dive into what I’ve learned over the last 10+ years about standing out as an organization or personal brand.

A complete grasp of these concepts is what allowed me to successfully navigate leaving my traditional job and venturing out onto my own over five years ago.

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I’ve given talks on this topic more and more this year and adapted this episode from my slides.

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    236: Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce

    Featuring Do You Have WHO It Takes author Steve Trautman

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    My guest today is a former Microsoft and Expedia employee. He has also founded his own knowledge transfer and consulting company.

    I’m talking about Steve Trautman. His previous books include Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Transfer through Peer Mentoring and The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management, a book co-written with David DeLong. 

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    Steve’s latest book is called Do You Have WHO It Takes? Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce.

    In it, Steve offers revolutionary yet practical ideas for every level of an organization (including the corporate board) so that you can manage talent risk with clear, measurable, and relevant date.

    And, he goes beyond academic theory to include a talent risk methodology, scripts for critical conversations, case studies, and useful tools gleaned from his own experience.

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      234: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed

      With co-author Kelly Palmer

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      Keeping our skills in sync with fast-changing markets is the biggest challenge of our time

      So says my guest today, Kelly Palmer, and her co-author David Blake.

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      Kelly and David have written a brand new book called The Expertise Economy: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed.

      They say that, in order for companies and their employees to succeed, they need to focus on building skills for the future. The book shows how the most forward-thinking companies, big and small, are transforming their employees into experts and, ultimately, creating their biggest competitive advantage.

      Listen in below as Kelly shares her “expertise” on The Expertise Economy.

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        231: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Highly Efficient and Reclaim Your Life with Kris Ward

        Author of Win the Hour, Win the Day

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        Today’s guest knows how to get attention. In a good way, of course.

        She reached out to me recently with her compelling story that included a personalized video she created.

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        Kris shared with me that she was inspired to write the book when the cards life had dealt forced her team to move forward without her leadership for a time.

        The resulting book is called Win the Hour, Win the Day: Time Management for Small Business.

        In it, Kris hopes to help teach you how to accelerate your business beyond your wildest dreams while reclaiming time for yourself.

        Time management, she says, isn’t about going faster or being in a constant state of high activity. It’s not about being busy; it’s about being productive. Amen!

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          230: How Collaborative Advantage Beats Competitive Advantage with Paul Skinner

          Author, Collaborative Advantage

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          The history of business strategy, so says my guest today, has been built on the idea that businesses must compete to win.

          But what if the competitive model of business is now broken? In today’s interconnected world, could strategies to create competitive advantage actually be holding your business back?

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          Paul Skinner, a strategic consultant and social entrepreneur, presents an alternative model of collaborative advantage which you can use, he says, to drive a greater level of success that is better for you, better for your customers, and better for society.

          Paul unpacks the idea in his brand new book called Collaborative Advantage: How Collaboration Beats Competition as a Strategy for Success. 

          This book is the indispensable guide that will help you rapidly accelerate the growth of your business or the impact of your non-profit organization by bringing the fuller, value-creating potential of the outside world inside your organization.

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