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: 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
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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.
10 min
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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.
6 min
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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.
7 min
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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.
26 min
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AUA: Why 360 Feedback Breaks Down in Leadership...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why executive teams struggle with peer feedback in 360 reviews, how incentive structures fuel competition at the top, and what leaders can do to shift from toxic dynamics to true collaboration.
7 min
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34. Bad Bosses and How to Defeat Them, Part 1
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.
36 min
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From Our Friends | The Rewards of Healthy Confl...
In this episode from our friends at Fixable, hosts Anne Morriss and Frances Frei explore conflict in the workplace with journalist and author Amanda Ripley.
45 min
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33. What’s Your Type? The Enneagram at Work wit...
Rodney Evans and Liz Orr explore how the Enneagram can reveal our deepest work patterns, unlock our personal growth journeys, and improve our relationships with the people we work alongside every day.
53 min
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32. Why Mergers and Acquisitions Fail (Almost E...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why most mergers and acquisitions fail—not at the deal table, but in the messy, overlooked work of integration—and what it really takes to combine two companies without losing the value you bought in the first place.
48 min
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31. Why Reorgs Don't Work
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack the seductive logic (and systemic failure) of reorgs as a change strategy.
48 min
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30. Extended Leadership Teams: Set Up to Fail Y...
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why extended leadership teams so often get stuck between strategy and execution—and what organizations can do to empower this critical (but overlooked) layer to lead across, not just down.
39 min
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29. Working from Anywhere with Raj Choudhury
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how work from anywhere is reshaping flexibility, equity, and talent strategy—and why the future of work isn’t about place, but possibility.
48 min
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28. DIY or DOA? Why Org Change Needs Outside Help
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack why so many internal transformation efforts fall into a try–fail–repeat loop—and what it really takes to break the cycle and lead change that sticks.
45 min