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Systematic Leader

Difficult Conversations Spur Growth with Thanh Pham

  • E60
  • 54:55
  • November 16th 2021

Thanh Pham is the founder of Asian Efficiency. He’s a productivity expert who has learned how to dig deep into himself and come out a better leader and friend. You are going to love how open he is about how he has learned to have difficult conversations so he can continue to grow.

Highlights from the interview:

  • How his busy parents raising style helped form his personality.
  • The super smart system his parents used to help him get in his home when his parents were working.
  • Why he is working on deepening his ability to feel empathy for others.
  • Why he started working with a sports psychologist.
  • He grew up in a household that didn’t talk about feelings and how he worked at becoming more comfortable with sharing his feelings.
  • Communicating in a more meaningful way.
  • Why difficult conversations spur growth.
  • What he learned from a difficult conversation with a friend that helped him.
  • The importance of having a coach/mentor/therapist to help you have an outside perspective, so you can process what is really going on in your life.
  • Why great relationships are so important to living a healthy life.
  • What is a fixed mindset?
  • What is a growth mindset?
  • Learn how you can cultivate a growth mindset to grow your career.
  • Why he hires people with a growth mindset.
  • How he cultivates having deep conversations with his employees that doesn’t talk just about work, but he wants to have personal conversations with them as well.
  • The power of helping people feel heard so you can be a better leader.
  • Favorite book.
  • Favorite podcast.
  • Favorite speaker.
  • Thanh is a productivity master and he shares his number one productivity tip to our community.

You can learn about Thanh over at his website Asian Efficiency. You can sign-up for his newsletter where he shares productivity tips. He also has an amazing podcast called The Productivity Show.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you love the interview please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

Systematic Leader

Leaders need processes and systems to make good decisions. The Systematic Leader podcast interviews leaders (CEOs, Authors, and Enterpreneurs). They share their best frameworks so you can make better decisions in your business.

“Developing the habit of mastering the multiple models which underlie reality is the best thing you can do.” Charlie Munger

I interview experts in their fields so you can learn and apply their frameworks to your business.

Hi, I'm Karl Staib. The creator of the Dig to Fly method and author of Bring Gratitude. I struggled for years with making quality decisions because I didn't have a system in place. Once I developed routines that worked for my personality type that's when my business took off.

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