At Work with The Ready
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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45, Part 2. Why Pay Will Never Feel Fair At Wor...
Rodney and Sam continue the compensation conversation with practical principles for designing better pay systems.
33 min
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AUA: Why Is My Small Org So Hard To Run?
Rodney and Sam explore how org design ideas apply to smaller organizations — and why the problem is usually missing structure, not too much of it.
4 min
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45, Part 1. Why Pay Will Never Feel Fair At Wor...
Rodney and Sam explore why comp tries to solve everything—belonging, value, status—and fails at all of it.
46 min
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AUA: What Should L&D Do About AI Right Now?
Rodney and Sam unpack how L&D can build capabilities—not just content—in the age of AI.
6 min
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44. Forget ROI: The Ethical Case for Org Design
Rodney and Sam unpack why “it’s profitable” isn’t a high enough bar for how we design work in 2026.
51 min
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AUA: Can You Change an Org When Leadership Does...
Rodney and Sam explore what to do when the people in power don’t feel the need for change.
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43. Dual Transformation Is The Future...And Nob...
Rodney and Sam explore why companies struggle to reinvent their core business while building what’s next—and what it actually takes to pull it off.
48 min
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AUA: Can Layoffs Really Reduce Bureaucracy?
Rodney and Sam dive into what companies would actually change if they were serious about cutting bloat.
5 min
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42. The Top 3 Skills Change Agents Need in 2026
Rodney and Sam explore the three skills change agents need in 2026 to move transformation from “good idea” to real adoption.
53 min
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AUA: How To Design a Startup OS From Scratch?
Rodney and Sam explore what OS elements to build early, what to resist, and why “minimum viable everything” beats perfect systems.
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41. Why Your AI Strategy Stalled and How To Get...
Rodney talks with Section CEO Greg Shove about why enterprise AI adoption is stalling, why “AI layoffs” are often cover, and what it actually takes to redesign work for the intelligence age.
52 min
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AUA: How Do You Measure the ROI of Org Design?
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how to talk about ROI in organizational design without reducing transformation work to short-term cost savings.
6 min
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40. Our 2026 Predictions: Expect the Unexpected
Rodney and Sam talk about how they think AI, job disruption, and new ways to working will reshape organizations in the coming year.
22 min
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AUA: Can Internal Transformation Teams Really D...
Rodney and Sam explore whether real impact in organizational change comes from working inside a company or as an external consultant—and what to consider if you’re trying to build a career in this work.
6 min
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39. Performance Management "Needs Improvement"
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why modern performance management fails so spectacularly—and what a system built for real growth, trust, and learning would look like instead.
51 min
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AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack why centralized and decentralized structures both fail—and what a smarter “third way” looks like.
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38. Running Better Experiments at Work
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why most “experiments” at work aren’t experiments at all—and what it really takes to learn your way into the future of work.
49 min
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AUA: Your Team Isn't Ready For Your Future
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how to lead from the future when your team’s still stuck in the present—and how to bring people along without burning out or giving up.
6 min
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37. Leadership Across Generations with Raven So...
Rodney Evans and guest Raven Solomon unpack why generations clash at work and how leaders can bridge the gap with empathy, inclusion, and future-ready thinking.
55 min
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AUA: Surviving the Culture Shock of an Internat...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack what happens when companies—and cultures—collide, and how to navigate the shock of a merger without losing what makes your team unique.
6 min
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36. What AI Is Teaching Us About Ourselves
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how AI is exposing every flaw in the way we work—and how to use it to redesign systems, not just speed up the broken ones.
48 min
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AUA: How to Change When People Are Loyal To The...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why organizational change so often stalls even when everyone agrees it’s needed—and how small experiments, trust, and “pairing” can help teams actually shift how work gets done.
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35. Fighting Burnout At Work
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack the systemic causes of burnout—and how to fix work, not workers.
46 min
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AUA: Promotion Problems - Managing Former Bosses
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how to lead your former boss, navigate ego and power dynamics after a promotion, and rebuild trust without losing your footing as a new leader.
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34. Even More Bad Bosses and How to Defeat Them...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why bad bosses thrive in so many organizations, the patterns that keep toxic leaders in power, and how to protect yourself—and your team—when leaders break bad.
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