900: Six Mindsets For Thriving in Uncertain Times with Charles Conn

Charles Conn shares how to be strategic and make breakthroughs when things are uncertain. — YOU’LL LEARN — 1) How talented people unknowingly self-sabotage. 2) The simple question that leads to clever breakthroughs. 3) How to communicate your ideas so people will care. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep900 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT CHARLES — Charles Conn is an investor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Monograph, a venture firm, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He is Board Chair of Patagonia and sits on The Nature Conservancy European Council. He was founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch, and was a partner at McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Boston Universities. He is co-author with Robert McLean of Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, published with Wiley in 2019, a best-seller now in six languages, and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times, 2023. • Book: Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything ( website ) • Book: The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times ( website ) • LinkedIn: Charles Conn — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Article: “M.B.A. Students vs. ChatGPT: Who Comes Up With More Innovative Ideas?” by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich (and full-text PDF of paper) • Website: Kaggle • Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman • Book: Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert Updegraff • Book: The Selfish Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins • Book: Biodiversity by E. O. Wilson • Past episode: 896: Finding More Success and Joy in Everything You Do with Suneel Gupta See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .