Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Cost of Managing From Above | William Hurst, Revisited
Season 1
William Hurst is all too familiar with the disasters that have resulted from tops-down governance. Through years of fieldwork in China and Indonesia,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Toxicity We Tolerate at Work | Catherine Mattice
Season 1 Episode 183
Toxicity at work isn’t always obvious. Most times, it shows up as sarcasm, neglect, and unresolved conflict. Catherine Mattice learned this firsthand…
7 months ago
Technology Alone Won’t Change the World | Kentaro Toyama, Revisited
Season 1
Kentaro Toyama spent a decade designing technologies to fight global poverty and improve education and health. As co-founder of Microsoft Research In…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Problem With Scale: What Growing Too Big Does to Work | Geoffrey West
Season 1 Episode 182
Geoffrey West didn’t set out to explain work. He was a physicist trying to understand why living things grow, age, and die. But when his questions ex…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
What Classrooms Reveal About Designing Better Work | Peter Liljedahl, Revisited
Season 1
After decades in education, Dr. Peter Liljedahl realized that many classrooms fail to engage the people inside them. Rather than accept that reality,…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
What Complex Organizations Do to Ethics | Ed Freeman
Season 1 Episode 181
Ethical questions at work rarely show up as rules or compliance issues. They show up in the systems organizations design and the outcomes those syste…
8 months ago
The Experience IS the Brand | Alder Yarrow, Revisited
Experience is brand. The experiences people have with a company shape how they feel, what they trust, and whether they stay. Creating those experienc…
8 months, 1 week ago
What Happens When AI Removes Friction from Work | Aaron Horwath
Season 1 Episode 180
While leading L&D at Creative Force, Aaron Horwath and his leaders began treating work as a product to be designed. That shift had wide effects, incl…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Psychological Design: How Environments Predict Our Psychology, Behavior, and Ability to Thrive | Jan Golembiewski, Revisited
Every building comes with a set of expectations. Students are quiet in a library, but loud on a playground. Adults are focused in their deckchairs ye…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Investing in the Future of Work: A New Path for Venture Capital | Virginie Raphaël
Season 1 Episode 179
Ideas don’t grow on their own. Something has to amplify them. Universities amplify what they teach, consultants amplify what they recommend, and mone…
9 months ago