Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow It Started v How It’s Going: 3 years of TWT
Season 3 Episode 25
Buy a sports car or start a podcast. It all could have gone the way of a new hobby, with audio kit languishing in a drawer. Instead, this podcast has…
5 months ago
Buzzword Bingo
Season 3 Episode 24
In this Christmas special, Caroline, Alison and Danielle unwrap the public service’s most gear-grinding buzzwords, what they’re supposed to mean and …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Imagine if... you were leading an orchard of bad apples
Season 3 Episode 23
Your shiny new promotion turns out to be more than you bargained for.
In this scenario-based "Imagine if..." episode, Caroline and Danielle assume th…
6 months ago
Imagine if … your sleepy grants program woke up
Season 3 Episode 22
When politics meets process, what’s a conscientious public servant to do? This “Imagine if…” episode puts Alison and Danielle in the shoes of a proje…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the public service's ‘Human Handbrake’: why reform stalls and how to fix it
Season 3 Episode 21
Demos has released a fascinating paper, The Human Handbrake, on the five human habits that stall public sector reform. In this episode we pick throug…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
“It’s just a minor restructure” said no calendar ever
Season 3 Episode 20
In our second change management episode, Danielle pulls apart the myth of the “minor” restructure and lay out a practical way to change without break…
7 months, 1 week ago
Who Really Moved My Cheese? Tales from the change management trenches
Season 3 Episode 19
Danielle takes us on a romp through change management, starting, as with all good contrarians, with a challenge to the idea of ‘change management’ it…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Regulator/policy cage fight: ANZSOG National Regulators Community of Practice Conference 2025
Season 3 Episode 18
Our first live show at the wildly successful ANZSOG NRCOP Conference in Brisbane August 2025.
The conversation tackles head-on the structural disconne…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Hon Tom Koutsantonis MP: Lessons from a Veteran Minister
Season 3 Episode 17
What makes someone qualified to be a minister? In this candid conversation with Tom Koutsantonis, South Australia's longest-serving current parliamen…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Billion-Dollar Payroll Disaster: lessons from Queensland Health’s Payroll System
Season 3 Episode 16
In this episode, Danielle, Caroline and Alison look at ANOTHER big ICT transformation project, with enormous human impacts and a long and expensive c…
9 months, 1 week ago