At Work with The Ready
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin
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S9E23 AUA: Is Real Change Possible Inside Federal Bureaucracy?
Most of the conversation about the future of work is aimed squarely at the corporate sector—growth engines, dual transformation, quarterly targets. But what if your organization exists to regulate,…
S9E22 Traditional Consulting Sold You a Great Idea. Now What? [Rebroadcast]
Producer's Note: It’s been two years since this episode first aired, and it’s every bit as relevant today. We’ve got some exciting things on these themes coming really soon, so revisit this one and…
S9E21 AUA: How Honest Should Leaders Be During a Transformation?
Your company announced a shiny new transformation, set to herald a new era of possibility. But a few weeks in, it's starting to feel a lot more like a top-down cost-cutting exercise with a nicer…
S9E20 49. How To Make Big Things Happen At Work
You've built the asset. You've done the comms. You even held office hours (that no one came to). And still…nothing changes. Sound familiar? These moves are still everyone’s go-to plays for…
S9E19 AUA: How To Lead When You Don’t Have The Answers?
The higher up you go, the more everyone expects you to have the answers. Your team wants reassurance about AI. Your peers want to know what other companies are doing. Leadership wants confidence…
S9E18 48. Office Politics: The Fun and Frustration of Palace Intrigue
Office politics doesn't happen because people are scheming. It happens because no one wrote anything down. In the absence of clear ways of working, the preferences of the most powerful people fill…
S9E17 AUA: How Does HR Rewrite Job Descriptions for AI?
Every HR team is getting the same ask right now: rewrite our job descriptions to reflect AI. It sounds reasonable—until you realize you're being asked to update a document that was already a little…
S9E16 47. The Chaos Tax is Slowing Your Org Down
Everyone talks about slaying bureaucracy and cutting organizational sludge but there's an equally pernicious force that doesn't get nearly enough airtime: the organizational debt created by too…
S9E15 AUA: What Keeps Us Together When AI Does The Work?
As AI handles more and more of the actual work, a genuinely hard question emerges: how do you maintain shared purpose when there's no single organization anchoring it? In this mini AUA, Rodney and…
S9E14 46. Embracing the Beautiful Mess: How Organizations Actually Work with John Cutler
Most leaders want to believe they're building something durable: a company that matters, a culture that sticks, a system people can rely on. But what if most organizations don't have the staying…
S9E13 AUA: Why Won't The Rest Of The Org Copy What’s Working?
You've done the hard work. Your team cracked the code on a new process/workflow/policy/design, your ways of working are genuinely better, and now...everyone else is actively uninterested. It's…
S9E12 45, Part 2. Why Pay Will Never Feel Fair At Work (And It's Not The Money)
Compensation is where human psychology and organizational systems collide—and in Part 1, Rodney and Sam named why it so often turns into a hedonic treadmill: every lever you pull to reduce…
S9E11 AUA: Why Is My Small Org So Hard To Run?
Small doesn't mean simple. In fact, smaller organizations are often more complex in the ways that are hardest to manage — personalities loom larger, every conversation carries more weight, and the…
S9E10 45, Part 1. Why Pay Will Never Feel Fair At Work (And It's Not The Money)
Compensation is one of the messiest parts of any organization. Pay becomes a proxy for belonging, validation, performance, identity, and status… which means it’s almost guaranteed to feel unfair,…
S9E9 AUA: What Should L&D Do About AI Right Now?
AI pressure is landing squarely on Learning & Development teams. Execs want “future skills”…yesterday. The tension? How do you stop churning out more courses and start building real capabilities…
S9E8 44. Forget ROI: The Ethical Case for Org Design
Most org design conversations get forced through a narrow funnel: prove the ROI, justify the spend, make the numbers work. But if work is something most people can’t opt out of—and where we spend a…
S9E7 AUA: Can You Change an Org When Leadership Doesn’t See the Problem?
When the people at the center of power feel well-served by the current system, how do you create change? This week’s listener question gets at a frustrating reality: sometimes the OS is optimized for…
S9E6 43. Dual Transformation Is The Future...And Nobody's Prepared
Most organizations are built to do exactly what they do…and that’s the problem. When a core business starts to decay due to disruption, automation, or shifting customer demand, the instinct is to…
S9E5 AUA: Can Layoffs Really Reduce Bureaucracy?
While many organizations claim they’re cutting red tape, the underlying drivers often look more like cost pressure, market correction, or AI anxiety dressed up as structural reform. In this mini…
42. The Top 3 Skills Change Agents Need in 2026
Want to build skills like this to help your team succeed in 2026? Learn about our Capability Catalyst program. Enterprise change is getting harder, not easier—and in 2026, “having the right ideas”…
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