Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Platforms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work | Andrei Hagiu
Season 1 Episode 146
If work is a product, and employees are customers of that product, then every company is a multi-sided business, one that must serve both consumers a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Built on Audacity: How to Be Bold at Work and Take Worth-It Risks | Anne Marie Anderson
Season 1 Episode 145
At its best, work is co-created. It’s not something companies hand out—it’s something employees help build by showing up fully and taking risks. But …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Surprising Power of Humility at Work | Simon Moss
Season 1 Episode 144
When we talk about what makes a great leader, we tend to focus on confidence, decisiveness, and maybe even charisma. Less often do we talk about humi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Listening Beyond Words: How to Really Hear People at Work | Oscar Trimboli
Season 1 Episode 143
Oscar Trimboli has spent his life helping people hear what’s not being said. As a listening expert and advisor to some of the world’s largest compani…
1 year, 4 months ago
How Employee Ownership Could Save America’s Democracy | Joseph Blasi
Season 1 Episode 142
What do the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, 19th-century industrialists, and a modern defense contractor have in common? According to economic soc…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works | John Truby Replay
Season 1
From an early age, John Truby knew that stories are not just something that happens on a page. Story is all around us. It structures how we interpret…
1 year, 5 months ago
How to Build an Economy That Works for Everyone | Nick Romeo
Season 1 Episode 141
As a journalist, Nick Romeo has interviewed people doing remarkable things, from running worker-owned companies to redesigning gig work as public inf…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Progressive Work Ethic: What We Lost and How to Win It Back | Elizabeth Anderson
Season 1 Episode 140
For centuries, the work ethic was used to justify inequality, but it also fueled a powerful movement for justice. In the final part of this series, E…
1 year, 5 months ago
Work Ethic's Dark Turn: The War on the Poor | Elizabeth Anderson
Season 1 Episode 139
The work ethic began as a religious principle before evolving into an economic theory. But by the 18th and 19th centuries, it had taken on a new role…
1 year, 5 months ago
How Work Became a Moral Duty: The Origins of the Modern Work Ethic | Elizabeth Anderson
Season 1 Episode 138
Elizabeth Anderson is one of today’s leading political philosophers and has spent years studying how the work ethic shapes our economy, society, and …
1 year, 6 months ago