How to Be Awesome at Your Job

886: How to Become an Executive with Adam Bryant


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Adam Bryant shares powerful insights on how to get promoted and be successful as a leader. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) What every aspiring leader should know about themselves. 

2) How to get promoted without asking for a promotion. 

3) The key ratio that positions you for advancement. 


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— ABOUT ADAM — 

Adam Bryant is Senior Managing Director and Partner at the ExCo Group, where he works with hundreds of senior leaders and high-potential executives. As the creator and former author of the iconic “Corner Office” column in The New York Times, Bryant has mastered the art of distilling real-world lessons from his hundreds of interviews and turning them into practical tools, presentations, and exercises to help companies deepen their leadership benches and strengthen their teams. He also works with executive leadership teams to help drive their transformation strategies, based on a best-practices framework he developed for his widely praised book, THE CEO TEST: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders

• Book: The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership 

• Book: The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed 

• Website: AdamBryantBooks.com 

• Company Website: ExCoLeadership.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Video: “Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk” 

• Book: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger 

• Book: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick 


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