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At Work with The Ready

By: Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin
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  • Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin have helped teams around the world adopt more modern ways of working and on At Work with The Ready they’re sharing the inside scoop with you, too. Whether you’re struggling with a carousel of ineffective meetings, annual strategy sessions that go nowhere, or decision-making churn that never ceases, they’ve seen it all and are here to help. In each episode, they'll break down common workplace challenges and show you the moves—both big and small—to start making real, lasting change. (Formerly “Brave New Work” with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans)
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  • 14. Surviving the Summertime Slump

    14. Surviving the Summertime Slump
    Jul 8 2024
    It’s an unspoken truth in most knowledge work that summer is a wasted season. From late May to early September, many teams face reduced numbers and it’s nearly impossible to spin up anything new. The director you need approval from? On a cruise. The graphic designer you need for that new marketing campaign? Camping with the kids. When people just aren’t around, it can sometimes be easier to keep the lights on during the vacation relay race and run out the clock until fall. The two most common sense solutions: take vacation yourself or focus on different things when people are away. But actually doing either of those things? Way harder than you’d expect, especially when modern work is tuned to overwhelm mode 24/7/365. In this episode of At Work With The Ready, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin talk about why summer is where organizational progress goes to die, and how we can stop spending those months doing business as usual and instead live a hot employee summer. Interested in hearing more about the sunshine, twilight, and midnight zones? We’ve got stuff coming soon! Sign up here to get first access. Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for more org design nerdery! Got an idea for future episodes or a thorny workplace question you need answered? Shoot us a message to podcast@theready.com. Mentioned references: "Vacation OS episode": BNW Ep. 142 "async episode": AWWTR Ep. 7 "medieval peasant vacation time": all articles point back to Juliet B. Schor's 1993 "The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure" "workshop episode": will be released Monday, July 22nd! "work as a paycheck discussion": AWWTR Ep. 11
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    43 mins
  • 13. Leadership Teams of the Future Act Like Org Designers

    13. Leadership Teams of the Future Act Like Org Designers
    Jun 24 2024
    The world is changing faster than ever. But leadership teams seem a little… stagnant. Sure, there’s plenty of changeover as one CEO is replaced by another, or as new C-suite roles pop up, but the way leadership teams operate is largely unchanged from the 1950s. That model? It’s antithetical to the change that’s needed for the rest of an organization to become more adaptable and resilient. In this episode, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore the ways in which leadership teams are holding their organizations back from the future. They’ll dig into how leaders can shift from defense to offense, set the right expectations for their teams, and recognize what their “real work” actually is. Interested in hearing more about the sunshine, twilight, and midnight zones? We’ve got stuff coming soon! Sign up here to get first access. Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for more org design nerdery! Got an idea for future episodes or a thorny workplace question you need answered? Shoot us a message to podcast@theready.com. Mentioned references: "totchos" management science servant leadership The Ready's OS Canvas Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Made Simple, by Gareth Holman Gareth's podcast episode: BNW Ep. 5 with Gareth Holman "Closing Time" by Semisonic Mural
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    53 mins
  • 12. Breaking the Cycle of Meeting-ocrity

    12. Breaking the Cycle of Meeting-ocrity
    Jun 10 2024
    It seems everybody’s up in arms about meetings these days. “There’s too many! They ones we have suck! We have meetings to prepare for other meetings! They keep me from doing my actual job!” We get it, and we hear you. In fact, between BNW and our current show, we’ve devoted 9 episodes to meetings! What more could there be to say in a tenth? Turns out, a ton. There’s so much intertwined with modern meeting culture that we’re often doomed to failure before we even get in the room. From the trap of the status meeting to leaders hogging all the stage time, Rodney and Sam dissect where most meetings go wrong and give you the tools to rewrite the script for how to start holding meetings that matter. If you’re looking to make your next meeting better, make it a huddle! Learn more about how huddles can bring side-by-side collaboration and creativity to your remote teams at Slack.com. Interested in hearing more about the sunshine zone and the twilight zone? We’ve got stuff coming soon! Sign up here to get first access. Prefer to watch rather than listen? Check out the extended live cut over on Youtube. Want future of work insights and experiments you can try? Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on your favorite platforms for more org design nerdery! LinkedIn Instagram Youtube We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.com. Mentioned references 1:1 meetings: BNW Ep. 19 with Michael Bungay Stanier; AWWTR Ep. 4 retrospective meetings: BNW Ep. 10 with Jordan Husney OS Coffee meetings: BNW Ep. 144 an operating rhythm of meetings: BNW Ep. 118 action meetings: BNW Ep. 80 with Sam Spurlin "RACI episode": AWWTR Ep. 10
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    57 mins
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