How to Be Awesome at Your Job

799: The Unspoken Rules of High Performers and High Potentials with Gorick Ng


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Gorick Ng lays out the unspoken rules and expectations of managers that explain why top performers get ahead. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The three questions everyone is asking about you 

2) The A+ way to ask for help 

3) The mentality that keeps professionals from progressing 


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— ABOUT GORICK — 

Gorick Ng is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, a book published by Harvard Business Review Press. It is a guide to help professionals, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, take control of their careers, based on 500+ interviews with professionals across geographies, industries, and job types. Gorick is a career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He has worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), investment banking at Credit Suisse, and research with the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School. He has been featured in The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, New York Post, Fast Company, and CNBC. He was named by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers to watch in 2022. Gorick, a first-generation college student, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

• Book: The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right 

• Website: Gorick.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Tool: Instapaper 

• Book: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer 

• Book: Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus 


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