How to Be Awesome at Your Job

698: How to Grow Your Career Faster through Reading with Jeff Brown (Host of the Read to Lead Podcast)

Aug 30, 2021

38:36

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What Are Some of the Top Books That Really Nail It?

03:08

Are Leaders Readers?

04:32

Are There Any Bad Reading Habits That You Should Not Do?

01:46

Introduction

2min

How to Read to Lead in a Big Way

2min

Reading as if Your Career Depended on It

2min

How Do You Think Reading Makes You Better?

3min

Are Leaders Readers?

5min

Those Ance Peace Is Associated With Not Wanting to Admit Ignorance or Changed Minds

2min

How to Read More Better

2min

Public Speaking - What's the Sub Thing?

2min

How to Develop a Reading Habit?

4min

10.

How Can I Double or Triple My Reading Speed in Minutes?

2min

11.

How to Retain and Increase Comprehension

3min

12.

Are There Any Bad Reading Habits That You Should Not Do?

2min

13.

What Are Some of the Top Books That Really Nail It?

3min

14.

Blinkest - The Simple Habit That Expands Your Career

2min

15.

What's Your Favorite Study?

2min

16.

How to Start Small and Build a Tiny Habit

3min

Jeff Brown breaks down how to make the most of the one habit that puts you ahead in your career: reading.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to strategically pick out your next read

2) How to double (or triple) your reading speed in minutes

3) Two simple tricks to maximize comprehension

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— ABOUT JEFF —

Jeff is an award-winning radio producer and personality, and former nationally-syndicated morning show host. Following a 26-year career in radio, Jeff went boss-free in 2013 and soon after launched the Read to Lead Podcast. It has gone on to become a four-time Best Business Podcast nominee and has featured Jeff's interviews with today's best business and non-fiction authors, including actor and author Alan Alda, Stephen M. R. Covey, Seth Godin, John Maxwell, Liz Wiseman, Dr. Henry Cloud, Gary Vaynerchuk, Simon Sinek, Brian Tracy, Nancy Duarte, and over 300 more.

Jeff has personally coached hundreds of successful podcasters around the globe – many of them award nominees and winners themselves – and has consulted on podcasts for the US government, two of the largest churches in the US, and numerous multi-million dollar companies.

Jeff and his work have been featured in Inc., Entrepreneur, and Hubspot, the blogs of Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Jeff Goins, and Social Media Explorer, as well as publications like the Nashville Business Journal, the Tennessean, and hundreds of other blogs and podcasts.

• Jeff’s book: Read to Lead: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career, with Jesse Wisnewski

• Jeff’s website: ReadToLeadBook.com

• Jeff’s podcast: Read to Lead

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Focus@Will

• App: Idagio

• Tool: reMarkable 2

• Study: “Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds”

• Book: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

• Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

• Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John Maxwell