1176: How to Stay Effective Amidst Chaos with Melissa Swift

Write down for a day what you do. Do that across a week, I think many of us would be shocked, and there's some good effectiveness insights just from doing that, because you may say, I thought my job was this, but actually I'm spending my time on this, and I forget any other accounts of the job, I don't think this is what I should be doing. That's Melissa Swift. She's the CEO of Anthro May Insight and a leading voice on how professionals can succeed in an ever more challenging world of work. She's also a consultant, keynote speaker, and author. Her latest book is Effective, How to Do Great Work in a Fast Changing World. So you'll learn one the four trends that make work feel more intense and chaotic. Two, How to hone in on what makes you effective, and three, two critical questions to ask in the face of chaos. And if you'd like a quick summary write about the actual wisdom that Melissa shares, you can find that in our Gold Nugget free email newsletter, which you can grab at awesomatyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's Melissa.

Melissa, welcome. It's great to be here. Well I'm excited to talk about Effective How to do great work, you know, being awesome at your job, being effective at your job are kind of similar. And we could debate the the distinction, but

Could you maybe kick us off with a definition of effectiveness here? Yeah, so it's I think effectiveness is getting done the things you really need to get done. You know, there's a ton of literature on kind of productivity that you can do all the things. And I don't think effectiveness is about doing all the things. It's about doing the things you really want to do to the standard you really want to do them and to a s the standard that others are happy with as well. Mm-hmm. And and I guess I would imagine there's also perhaps a dimension of in a way that doesn't s leave you bitter, burnt out, exhausted. Furious. Frustrated.

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