Podcast Episodes

Brave New Work 9. Skip the Plan and Learn by Doing with Ben Kaufman

Season 1 Episode 9

When starting something new, most of us tend to research, analyze, plan, and procrastinate. Because we don't want to fail. We don't want to be exposed as imposters. And we don't want to take big risk…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Brave New Work 8. Leading Through Transformation with David Marquet

Season 1 Episode 8

Leading a team through change is hard, but leading a team to a place without traditional leadership is far harder. If you ask people to step up... will they do it? And can you really mandate self-man…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Brave New Work 7. How to Have Productive Disagreements with Buster Benson

Season 1 Episode 7

A diverse team doing important work is bound to disagree. But they’re also likely to avoid talking about it—because conflict makes many of us deeply uncomfortable. But, what if we simply lack the ski…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Brave New Work 6. Defaulting to Transparency with Joel Gascoigne

Season 1 Episode 6

In a complex and dynamic world, sharing information on a "need to know" basis is misguided, because it perpetuates ignorance and bias. No one needs to know everything all the time, but we need the ri…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Brave New Work 5. Egos and Identities in the Workplace with Dr. Gareth Holman

Season 1 Episode 5

Self-awareness in the workplace is hard to come by—because our egos are so good at “protecting” us from reality. For many of us, our identity is so tied up in who we are at work that deep down we wor…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Brave New Work 4. Let's Have Fewer, Better Meetings with Dan Kim

Season 1 Episode 4

In almost every organization we visit, teams aren't just having bad meetings—they're having meetings to prepare for those meetings. The virus is spreading. And so we have to ask: when should we have …

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Brave New Work 3. The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Message Change with Deirdre Latour

Season 1 Episode 3

Communication around organizational change is a prime example of a complicated approach (write an email that nineteen people edit!) to a complex situation (human beings and their feelings!). Most of …

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Brave New Work 2. Rethinking Our Working Agreements with Mike Brevoort

Season 1 Episode 2

The best teams in the world don’t just agree on what they’re going to do, they agree on how they’re going to do it.

In this debut episode, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk about working agreements—…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Brave New Work 1. Introducing Brave New Work with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans

Season 1 Episode 1

Brave New Work is a podcast about reinventing our organizations and the search for a more adaptive and human way of working. But what does that really mean? In this brief introductory episode, we set…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

It's Time for Brave New Work

What’s stopping us from doing the best work of our lives? It’s the way we work. Whether you’re building a startup or reinventing a global enterprise, every day is a battle between chaos and bureaucra…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago