How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Jeremy Pollack explains the critical role our nervous system plays in conflict resolution.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The neurobiological underpinnings of conflict
2) The 60-second hack to regain your composure
3) How to deal with a conflict that’s going nowhere

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— ABOUT JEREMY —
Jeremy Pollack, Ph.D. is a social-organizational psychologist and a leader in the field of workplace conflict resolution and peacebuilding. He is the Founder of Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, an international conflict resolution consulting firm. He is also co-founder and chairman of the Peaceful Leadership Institute, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to promoting the model and theory of Peaceful Leadership. Jeremy is a coach, trainer, mediator, and author. He coaches and trains executives and employees at a variety of levels and industries, from Fortune 100 companies to major non-profits.
• Book: Wired for Peace: Using 7 Neuroscience-Based Principles to Resolve Conflicts
• Website: PollackPeaceBuilding.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Term: Terror management theory
• Book: Little Book of Conflict Transformation: Clear Articulation Of The Guiding Principles By A Pioneer In The Field (Justice and Peacebuilding) by John Lederach

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Dr. Marilee Adams shows you how to ask the questions that drive improvement and innovation.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How your inner questions shape your decisions and behavior
2) Why brainstorming often falls short–and what to do instead
3) The hidden assumptions that limit your thinking and creativity

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— ABOUT MARILEE —
Marilee Adams, PhD, award-winning author, is a pioneer in inquiry-based coaching, leadership, and organizational culture. The originator of the Question Thinking methodologies, she is CEO and founder of the Inquiry Institute and a consultant for organizations large and small.
Dr. Adams is an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead’s Executive Education Program at Case Western Reserve University and for ten years was an adjunct professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.
• Book: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Fifth Edition: 14 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Results
• Book: The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy (Wiley Series in Couples and Family Dynamics and Treatment)
• Email: marilee.adams@inquiryinstitute.com
• Website: InquiryInstitute.com
• Tool: Choice map

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Padma Lakshmi
• Book: The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr

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Jia Jiang explains his four-step framework for making discipline and success easier.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The problem with hard discipline
2) How to make your goals feel easy and enjoyable
3) Two handy tips to defeat procrastination

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— ABOUT JIA —
Jia Jiang is an award-winning speaker, entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of Rejection Proof. As a keynote speaker, Jiang has spoken at corporate and industry events and in front of 400,000+ live audiences. His TED talk has millions of views and is ranked in the top 1% among all TED talks. Jiang is also the owner of Rejection Therapy, which helps people overcome their fear of rejection and develop mental resilience. His work has been featured in Time, CNN, Today, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired, and more.
• Book: Easy Discipline: An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things
• TED Talk: What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED
• Video series: 100 Days of Rejection Therapy
• Substack: Easy Ambition

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Book: Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There by Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz
• Book: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• YouTube: Caroline Girvan
• Game: Slay the Spire II
• Past episode: 016: Going for No with Andrea Waltz
• Past episode: 1167: Mastering the Three Elements of Charisma with Olivia Fox Cabane

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DJ DiDonna makes the case for why taking more extended time off helps professionals get further in their careers–and shares tricks for actually snagging that time.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to convince your boss to let you take a sabbatical
2) How sabbaticals act as “regret insurance”
3) How to plan a truly fulfilling sabbatical

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— ABOUT DJ —
DJ DiDonna is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches MBA courses on entrepreneurship and building meaningful professional and personal lives. He has spent his career translating social science research into real-world tools for positive change. In 2019, DiDonna founded The Sabbatical Project to define, explore, and research the role of sabbaticals in modern life. He has helped organizations around the world—from nonprofits to Fortune 50 companies—design and implement sabbatical policies.
His work has been featured in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Time, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Previously, DiDonna cofounded EFL Global, a fintech company that enabled more than $2 billion in capital to underbanked businesses and individuals across twenty countries before its acquisition in 2018. DiDonna earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. On his sabbatical, DiDonna walked nine hundred miles on pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan, helped lead the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at his undergraduate alma mater, Notre Dame, and unskillfully remodeled his kitchen. Outside work, you can find him plotting how to be in the Big Outdoors.
• Book: Big Time Off: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals and How to Take One by DJ DiDonna
• LinkedIn: DJ DiDonna
• Website: TheSabbaticalProject.org
• Website: djdidonna.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Tool: Voice Dream Reader
• Book: The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series, 1) by Cixin Liu
• Book: Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra

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Simone Stolzoff shows you that it’s possible to turn uncertainty into your advantage.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to build your uncertainty tolerance
2) What to ask when you face indecision
3) Why curiosity is the antidote to fear

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— ABOUT SIMONE —
Simone Stolzoff is an author and journalist who explores big questions about work, meaning, and identity. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, he is the author of two books: The Good Enough Job and How To Not Know. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and on the TED stage. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.
• Book: How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers
• Book: The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
• Book site: HowToNotKnow.com
• Substack: The Article Book Club
• Website: SimoneStolzoff.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Tool: Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS)
• Study: World Uncertainty Index
• Study: "Is the Pain Worth the Gain? The Advantages and Liabilities of Agreeing With Socially Distinct Newcomers" by Katherine W. Phillips, Katie A. Liljenquist, and Margaret A. Neale
• Study: "Increasing intolerance of uncertainty over time: the potential influence of increasing connectivity" by R Nicholas Carleton, Gabrielle Desgagné, Rachel Krakauer, and Ryan Y. Hong
• Figure: Annie Duke
• Book: Flex Your Feelings: Train Your Brain to Develop the 7 Traits of Emotional Fitness by Dr. Emily Anhalt
• Book: London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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