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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AUA: Is Real Change Possible Inside Federal Bur...
Rodney and Sam explore what organizational innovation actually looks like when your mission is regulating and administering—not disrupting and growing.
6 min
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Traditional Consulting Sold You a Great Idea. N...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin dig into what traditional consulting promises and what it does and doesn’t deliver.
49 min
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AUA: How Honest Should Leaders Be During a Tran...
Rodney and Sam explore how to navigate the gap between the official change narrative and what's actually going on.
11 min
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49. How To Make Big Things Happen At Work
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why the gap between sharing information and changing behavior is where most change efforts fail.
48 min
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AUA: How To Lead When You Don’t Have The Answers?
Rodney and Sam explore why confidence and certainty aren't the same thing and how to lead when you honestly don't know what's going to happen.
9 min
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48. Office Politics: The Fun and Frustration of...
Rodney and Sam explore what happens when strategy and operating clarity break down and personal relationships become the only way to get anything done.
49 min
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AUA: How Does HR Rewrite Job Descriptions for AI?
Rodney and Sam explore why defining human judgment and authority matters more than rewriting task lists for AI.
6 min
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47. The Chaos Tax is Slowing Your Org Down
Rodney and Sam dig into one of the most undertalked sources of organizational drag — the chaos and learned helplessness created by founders and leaders who mistake speed and control for momentum.
47 min
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AUA: What Keeps Us Together When AI Does The Work?
Rodney and Sam explore what it takes to preserve shared purpose and human connection as AI takes on more and more of the actual work.
4 min
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46. Embracing the Beautiful Mess: How Organizat...
Sam is joined by John Cutler to explore why organizations are far more ephemeral than we admit and why understanding patterns doesn’t mean you can change them.
50 min
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AUA: Why Won't The Rest Of The Org Copy What’s ...
Rodney and Sam explore why proven change rarely spreads in federated organizations — and what to do if you're the team everyone else is ignoring.
7 min
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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.
6 min
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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.
10 min
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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