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KF #30. Self-Development

Sep 30

067: Sharpening Your Memory and Focus with Joanna Jast

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Joanna Jast says: "The fastest way to improve your focus is to fix your environment."

Blogger Joanna Jast shares best practices for boosting your brain’s performance.

You’ll Learn:

  1. The optimal surroundings for optimal productivity
  2. Quick hacks for improving your focus
  3. How our brains are wired to absorb information

About Joanna

Joanna Jast is the author of Laser-Sharp Focus and a top mental performance seeker. She uses her medical background and low-tolerance for fluff to find proven ways of accelerating learning and personal growth. Her mission is to help people achieve professional and educational success faster.

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Sep 07

057: Making a Career Pivot with Jenny Blake

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Jenny Blake says: "You can ask yourself really every week, every day, or for every project... 'What is one next step that would make the biggest impact'"

Career strategist Jenny Blake shares insights about the when, why, and how of career pivoting.

You’ll learn:

  1. When and how to make a “pivot” move in your career
  2. The three “E’s” of piloting something new in your life
  3. How to reinvent your role–right where you are

About Jenny
Jenny Blake is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love. She is the co-creator of Google’s Career Guru Program, host of the Pivot Podcast, and author of the book Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, which released yesterday.

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Aug 08

046: Generating and Selling Ideas with Afif Ghannoum

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Afif Ghannoum says: "There's nothing wrong with borrowing and iterating off the shoulders of giants to come up with better ideas."

Inventor extraordinaire Afif Ghannoum shares tactics for conceiving, testing, and selling great ideas.

You’ll learn:
1. The conditions necessary for creativity to flourish
2. How to successfully borrow, tweak, and validate ideas from giants
3. The three credibilities you need for a compelling story

About Afif
Afif Ghannoum is the founder of NapkinToShelf.com. He is a formerly frustrated lawyer, who has launched over ten products that have sold in over 27,000 stores and online. Afif also has two patents, licensed technology to a large pharma company for a product sold in tens of thousands of stores in multiple countries, and has raised nearly $9 Million (and counting) in venture funding.

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Jun 06

020: Strategically Spending Your 100 Years with Lynda Gratton

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Lynda Gratton says: "In a long life, intangible assets become really important."

 

Living for a century will soon become the norm. Psychologist Lynda Gratton explains how this new found longevity will alter the stages of life, and what this means for your career.

You’ll learn:

1) The massive implications a 100-year life has on your career strategy
2) The importance of spending time with people at different ages
3) An easy tool that allows you to step back and ‘audit’ your own intangible assets, at any point in your career

About Lynda
Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the world’s leading program on human resources. Her eight books cover topics related to the impact of a changing world on employment and work. In 2012, her book The Shift received the business book of the year award in Japan and has been translated into more than 15 languages. Lynda has been named one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world.
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May 16

012: Rising Like a Star with Claire Pedersen Patel

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Claire Pedersen Patel says: "You have to be somewhat on the edge and pushing the limits... appreciating that fear is going to motivate you to learn."

In this episode, “Rising Star of the Consulting Profession” Claire Pedersen Patel shares insight into her rapid career rise, from the importance of finding confidence to the traits that turn employees into great leaders.

You’ll learn:

  1. How Claire’s own initiative led to her leading the entire associate team.
  2. What to do when you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing at work.
  3. The qualities that truly stand out on resumes.

Claire Pedersen Patel is a Principal and Capability Leader at Trexin Consulting.  She was recently recognized with Consulting Magazine’s “35 Under 35 Rising Stars” award.  Claire manages one fifth of Trexin’s client delivery team and remains the only non-partner managing a department at Trexin. Prior to Trexin, she was a Global IT Chief of Staff at Aon Risk Services, reporting to the CIO. She has always been passionate about building the next generation of consultants; in 2015, Claire tripled the size her team. She fundamentally changed how projects were staffed, delivering strong business growth and greater value for clients. Her team is the fastest growing part of the company and will double again in 2016.

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