Your Grass Is Greener: Building Better Workplaces With Jason Silver

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Jason Silver is a multi-time founder of kids and a multi-time founder of companies. He gets his biggest thrill helping modern employees and their teams unlock a better way to work—surfing is a close second.

He was an early employee at Airbnb and helped build an AI company from the ground up back before AI was the cool thing to do. Today, he advises a startup portfolio valued in the billions on how to build great, lasting companies that people actually enjoy working for.

He’s a sought-after public speaker, instructor, and advisor on how to transform work into one of the biggest drivers of positivity in your life. When he’s not busy helping people solve their hardest workplace challenges, Jason’s kids are busy reminding him just how much of a work in progress he still is too.

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IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:

  • (2:22) The curveball that changed Jason's life
  • (6:40) Post-traumatic growth
  • (8:14) Jason's previous concept of success
  • (14:30) What Jason has learned from an agency perspective
  • (20:06) Assumptions that Jason has flipped
  • (22:30) Biggest impacts on productivity and life involved removing things, not adding
  • (29:20) Planning and adding in how we want to feel, not just what we need to accomplish
  • (36:23) Test to determine things you're great at and enjoy
  • (40:41) Advantage Mapping and how to uncover your advantages
  • (41:30) Jason's book Your Grass Is Greener
  • (47:35) Big challenges tackled in the book and what working differently means
  • (55:00) Workplace culture
  • (1:07:20) Work can be become a very positive driver in your life

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