The Career Builder's Podcast

The Long Game with Dorie Clark

Episode Summary

Dorie Clark - one of the world's top business thinkers and an authority on reinventing yourself and your career - discusses the key lessons of her newest Wall Street Journal Bestseller. Its title? The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World.

Episode Notes

Topics Covered:

• Dorie Clark - Duke & Columbia Business Professor; Ranked #1 Communication Coach; HBR Author; Top 50 Business Thinker in World - Thinkers50
  • Book: The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World - learn more at dorieclark.com/thelonggame
  • You can download her free Long Game self-assessment workbook
• How the long game had a positive impact on Dorie's life
• The value in strategic and tactical thinking
• Understanding and applying the concept of "optimizing for Interesting"
• Seeing failure as an experiment and the value in testing concepts out first before going all in
• Are you trapped in a permanent state of execution mode? If so, here's how to get out of it.
• How to say no with intention
• When it's ok to say yes to short-term gain
• Strategies to stay focused while pursuing the long game
• How the long game vision helps you live in the now
• Why you should think in a long-term, strategic way about your career
• Dorie's 80%/20% rule
• "Don't pay for office space"