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Increasing Leverage in a Workplace
50:49 - 57:31 (06:41)
The speaker shares how to increase leverage in the workplace by increasing your employer's investment in you and also finding ways to make it more painful for them to lose you. He also explains how he came up with the title for the book "The 4-Hour Workweek".
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The key to increasing leverage in the workplace is to make yourself so valuable that losing you would cost the employer.
50:49 - 55:14 (04:24)
Summary
The key to increasing leverage in the workplace is to make yourself so valuable that losing you would cost the employer. In talking with his publisher, the idea of a "two hour work week" was created as a way to compromise and make the concept more believable for readers.
ChapterIncreasing Leverage in a Workplace
Episode#548: The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW 2007
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The worst thing that can happen when getting fired is receiving unemployment and having an extended vacation until finding a new job.
55:14 - 57:31 (02:17)
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The worst thing that can happen when getting fired is receiving unemployment and having an extended vacation until finding a new job. Advices for increasing personal value to make yourself more irreplaceable on a work team are given.