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Speaker 1: You're about to listen to My Favorite Tip episode, where

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Speaker 1: I select one of my favorite tips that I've heard

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Speaker 1: on this show. But I want to know what your

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Speaker 1: favorite tip has been that you've heard on How I Work,

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Speaker 1: because I'm putting together a short series of listeners favorite

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Speaker 1: tips that I'll be releasing next month. To submit a tip,

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Speaker 1: email me a voice memo or a note to Amantha

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Speaker 1: at Inventium dot com dot Au. That's Amantha at Inventium

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Speaker 1: dot com dot Au and you can get my email

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Speaker 1: from the show notes. You might even want to mention

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Speaker 1: how you've applied the tip in your own life. The

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Speaker 1: modern office dress code is a pretty nebulous thing nowadays.

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Speaker 1: Most industries have been slowly moving away from strict business

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Speaker 1: attire for decades now. The full suit and tie gave

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Speaker 1: way to the business shirt before modern tech entrepreneurs popularize

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Speaker 1: the image of a T shirt and jeans as the

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Speaker 1: uniform of the workaholic disruptor. And that's all before we

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Speaker 1: started working from our couches. But Chris Oliver Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: director of production for Netflix Australia and New Zealand, doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to hang up his suit for good just yet.

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Speaker 1: When he first left his job at the ABC, he

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Speaker 1: bounded into an interview for a new position dressed in

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Speaker 1: a T shirt and jeans. When he accepted the job,

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Speaker 1: his new mentor told him that his first port of

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Speaker 1: call was to go out and get a suit. He's

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Speaker 1: never been entirely short if she just wanted him to

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Speaker 1: dress a bit sharper, but he found deeper meaning in

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Speaker 1: that advice, nonetheless, to smarten up. My name is doctor

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Speaker 1: Amantha Immer. I'm an organizational psychologist and the founder of

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Speaker 1: Behavioral science Consultancy Inventium. And this is how I work,

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Speaker 1: a show about how to help you you do your

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Speaker 1: best work. On today is my Favorite Tip episode. We

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Speaker 1: go back to an interview from the past and I

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Speaker 1: pick out my favorite tip from the interview. In today's show,

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Speaker 1: I speak with Chris Oliver Taylor, and Chris has received

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Speaker 1: a lot of advice over his very illustrious career, and

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Speaker 1: I was keen to know which pieces had stuck with

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Speaker 1: him and served him. Well.

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Speaker 2: There's two bits. One's facetious and funny maybe but important.

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Speaker 2: Other ones maybe more serious. So the first one was

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Speaker 2: come from a wonderful former colleague of mine called Sandra

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Speaker 2: Levy and Sandra used to the director of TV at

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Speaker 2: the ABC and a esteemed media leader, wonderful, wonderful person

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Speaker 2: who gained my break at the ABC when she didn't

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Speaker 2: need to. And she offered me the job as head

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Speaker 2: of production, probably years before I was ready. And I

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Speaker 2: came up to Sydney for Melbourne and I was in

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Speaker 2: my jeans, T shirt and bound into the office ready

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Speaker 2: for this meeting with Sandra. That sound was quite formidable

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Speaker 2: and a very I didn't know her at all well,

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Speaker 2: so thinking, oh, okay, fine, So I went in there

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Speaker 2: and we had a commentment of the job. Do you

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Speaker 2: want the job? Yes, I'd love the job. Good, go

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Speaker 2: and buy yourself a suit. With her advice, and I

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Speaker 2: think what that meant to mean, I took it kind

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Speaker 2: of heart, was smart enough. You know, be professional, this

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Speaker 2: is this is this is important, and you've got to

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Speaker 2: have an image to some degree that for you know,

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Speaker 2: the chords with the organization you work for, or the

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Speaker 2: role that you hold, or of course the image you

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Speaker 2: want to project. And that even though she may not

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Speaker 2: quite meant it in that way, I took that away.

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Speaker 2: Let your advice around. Remember you're always on show, You're

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Speaker 2: always auditioning. You're always performing, you're always pitching, and so

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Speaker 2: make sure that how you're projecting yourself matches who you

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Speaker 2: are working with. And so I've always get that very

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Speaker 2: front center. And the second one, which is really I

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Speaker 2: think for producers to take heed of, you know people

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Speaker 2: on this side of defense that I am. As I

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Speaker 2: was leaving the ABC to join match Box, they were

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Speaker 2: owned by NBC, and my NBC boss said to me,

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Speaker 2: and his name is Michael, Michael Elston, another really amazing

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Speaker 2: leader who I learned so much from. Michael said, now,

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Speaker 2: remember at the ABC, you can do nothing. You can

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Speaker 2: send no emails, make no phone calls, never leave your

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Speaker 2: office if you like, and the work will pile up

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Speaker 2: outside your door. You will open your door and there'll

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Speaker 2: be a thousand people wanting you to sign something and

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Speaker 2: answer this and do that because you're in a broadcaster

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Speaker 2: and work just happens once you leave that and you

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Speaker 2: join the other side, where you have to generate everything.

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Speaker 2: If you do nothing, nothing happens. You have to generate everything,

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Speaker 2: generate momentum, generate those phone calls, generate relationships, and generate

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Speaker 2: a culture. And I've always kept that really front and

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Speaker 2: center that if you do nothing outside of a most jobs,

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Speaker 2: if you do nothing, nothing happens. You have to generate everything

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Speaker 2: and make it happen. And so I've kept that really

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Speaker 1: If you're looking for more tive to improve the way

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Speaker 1: that you work, I write a short fortnightly newsletter that

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Speaker 1: contains three cool things that I've discovered that helped me

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Speaker 1: work better, ranging from software and gadgets that I'm loving

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Speaker 1: through to interesting research findings. You can sign up to

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Speaker 1: that at howiwork dot com. That's how I Work dot co.

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Speaker 1: How I Work is produced by Inventium with production support

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Speaker 1: from Dead Set Studios. And thank you to Matt Nimba

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Speaker 1: who does the audio mix for every episode and makes

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Speaker 1: everything sound so much better than it would have otherwise.

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Speaker 1: See you next time.