Podcast Episodes

151. Understanding Our Power at Work with Larissa Conte

Season 5 Episode 52

“Power.” It’s a loaded word that can conjure up feelings of negativity, fear, and general ickiness. And with good reason. If our default definition of power is all about authority and control, then t…

Published on 3 years ago

Our Hosts in the Wild: Human Capital Innovations: Adaptive Organization Design and the Future of Work, with Rodney Evans

Sometimes, Rodney and Aaron stop by other people’s podcasts to nerd out on the hits we know and love: new ways of working, self-management, breaking down the binary between chaos and bureaucracy, the…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

150. Giving Our Feedback Some Feedback

Season 5 Episode 51

We’ve covered feedback before on the show, because learning how to give and receive it is a key part of team growth and success. But establishing an entire system that lets different flavors of feedb…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

149. How To Build a Brand New Team

Season 5 Episode 50

Picture it: Your company’s landed on an important and shiny new project and it needs a team to bring it to life. Cue the barrage of big questions—questions like: “So…who’s on this team? What support …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

148. Building a Digital HQ with Slack's Ali Rayl

Season 5 Episode 49

Spoiler alert: Your organization already has a Digital HQ. Because whether you’re back in an office Monday through Friday or working remotely in your fluffiest slippers, every team now operates with …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

147. Another Trip to the Mailbag

Season 5 Episode 48

Show us a podcast that gets better questions than ours, we dare you. Listeners, you’re crushing the question game these days—so we’re heading back to the mailbag (there’s just so much mail there!) to…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

146. Thinking Outside the Ballot Box with Emily Amick

Season 5 Episode 47

We often talk about complexity and work, but complexity is everywhere: at our schools, sports teams, churches, families… you get the idea. Today, we’re looking at a different kind of complex system t…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

145. Shhh....We're Talking About Quiet Quitting

Season 5 Episode 46

Odds are you’ve discussed quiet quitting with your colleagues, your friends, your barista, your aunt Barbara… you get the idea. Super-hyped-up conversations about quiet quitting are everywhere these …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Kick Your Company Retreat Up a Notch [Rebroadcast]

[Rebroadcast note: The Ready gathers for its next retreat next week, so there’s no better time to re-air this episode from December 2021.]

Wait, haven’t we already covered retreats? Yes. But if the f…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Adaptive Organization Design and the Future of Work, with Rodney Evans

Sometimes, Rodney and Aaron stop by other people’s podcasts to nerd out on the hits we know and love: new ways of working, self-management, breaking down the binary between chaos and bureaucracy, the…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago