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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57. Your Company Wasn't Built to Grieve with Mo...
Rodney talks with Glue Club founder Molly Graham on the feelings and grief that hide inside every big change at work, and why we have to face them before we can move forward.
58 min
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AUA: How To Make the Hard Call and Shut Somethi...
Rodney and Sam explore what causes teams to avoid making the hard calls, and how to get better at actually ending things that are no longer delivering results.
13 min
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56. Your Strategy is a Work of Fiction
Rodney Evans and Sam Rothkopf close the built-to-benefit-from-change arc with the strategy conversation underneath all of it: what belongs at each altitude, what has to be on the calendar, and why the deck was never the work.
54 min
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AUA: How Do Leaders Stop Being The Decision Bot...
Rodney and Sam explore the tells that you've become the bottleneck, the freedom-and-consequences philosophy, and a decision log that makes the invisible visible.
7 min
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55. Your Org Can Be Built to Benefit From Chang...
Rodney Evans and Sam Rothkopf on the kind of leadership an organization built to benefit from change actually needs, and why the design work eventually runs out.
53 min
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AUA: Why Does Every Decision Take Forever?
Rodney and Sam explore easy on-ramps to better decision making, the power of a scrappy proposal, and how to stop hoping an answer lands on the table.
8 min
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54. Change Only Sticks If It Starts At The Top:...
Rodney and Sam Rothkopf explore what it takes to reset an executive team and why it has to happen before the rest of the company.
48 min
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AUA: Are Ego-Driven Leaders The Only Kind That ...
Rodney and Sam explore survivorship bias, frontier founders, and a definition of success that counts more than the balance sheet.
9 min
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53. The Chief of Staff’s Real Job: Turning Stra...
Rodney and guest co-host Sam Rothkopf recharter the most misused role on the leadership team.
50 min
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AUA: When Do Well-Meaning Checklists Turn Into...
Rodney and Sam explore when checklists set you free, when compliance brain creeps in, and where they fit between the Sunshine Zone and the Twilight Zone.
8 min
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52. Welcome to the Liminal Space (Buckle Up!)
Rodney welcomes guest co-host Sam Rothkopf to explore The Ready’s new thesis: in a world of constant volatility, the only durable competitive advantage is being built to benefit from change.
49 min
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AUA: How Do You Tell Leadership The Truth Witho...
Rodney and Sam explore how to signal to senior leaders that a project is off the rails—without torpedoing your own career in the process.
6 min
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51. It's Time, Babe: How to Know When to Leave ...
Rodney and Sam explore how to tell when it's time to leave a job and what they’ve learned from their own experiences.
51 min
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AUA: How Do You Make Employee Ownership Actuall...
Rodney and Sam explore what it takes to move past the financial transaction of employee ownership and into an actual ownership culture.
7 min
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50. The Ways of Working Movement Failed. Now What?
Rodney and Sam explore what the movement to transform how organizations work got wrong, and what’s actually worth doing now.
50 min
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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 Teams Together When AI Does The...
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