Work! Work! Work!

9 episodes

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  • 1

    WeWork too much

    This Is Uncomfortable

    25:48 | Mar 5th, 2020

    8 recommendations

    When WeWork acquired her company, she got executive training, fancy corporate retreats and a dope Patagonia jacket. It was almost enough to make her forget everything she lost. This week: Why we&#8217...Show More

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    Ok WeWork is definitely not just a poorly managed company. It’s definitely evil. What they did to the IT woman was awful. This is a good episode to listen to with the new podcast series about Netflix ...Show More

  • 2

    “Netflix is a team, not a family”

    Land of the Giants

    39:12 | Jun 23rd, 2020

    6 recommendations

    Is working on a team of all-stars, excellent pay, and unlimited vacation worth the stress of constant criticism from co-workers and the knowledge that your boss is considering whether to replace you? ...Show More

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    Netflix’ founder was way overconfident in his streaming vs DVD business split that turned out to be a total market disaster, but no one on his team was willing to tell him he’s wrong. The failure of t...Show More

  • 3

    How to Love Criticism

    WorkLife with Adam Grant

    34:34 | Feb 28th, 2018

    13 recommendations

    What if you could tell your co-workers what you really think of them? At the world’s most successful hedge fund, everyone is rated and ranked constantly – in front of everyone. They’ve figured out how...Show More

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    Organizations and leadership gurus are all about “radical candour” nowadays, but what does radical candour actually look like when practiced within an organization? This in-depth look at investment fi...Show More

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    Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace pe...Show More

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    Teams with psychological safety perform better than teams that "work well" and agrees with each other all the time. This is a terrific listen that complements the episodes on work criticism with Adam ...Show More

  • 5

    Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    1:24:45 | Apr 22nd, 2019

    17 recommendations

    In the past few months, two essays on America’s changing relationship to work caught my eye. The first was Anne Helen Petersen’s viral BuzzFeed piece defining, and describing, “millennial burnout.” Th...Show More

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    This is a terrific episode on workism and burnout. Is workism caused by capitalism or driven by the individual or both? What's the solution to workism? Is productivity also workism? Is "finding your p...Show More

  • 6

    Gaby explores work-life balance in The Netherlands, which has some of the world's shortest work hours, and in South Korea, which has some of the longest.  First, she speaks with expat Jovi Paredes abo...Show More

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    Netherlands sound like labour heaven. Parents with kids 8 or younger are expected take a paid day off a week to spend family time with their kids! Burnout is diagnosed by doctors with proper plans to ...Show More

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    Anger, depression, and massive success… For David Chang, every restaurant he opens feels like life or death. That mentality is a major reason why he’s one of the biggest figures in the restaurant worl...Show More

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    When you're at the top of your game in your field, that's usually when you're at the pit of your workaholism. Honest conversation from David Chang about his relationship with his very strict dad who w...Show More

  • 8

    Work Minus Monotony with Byron Reese

    The Digital Workplace Podcast

    27:58 | Mar 6th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    AI is coming...to make you better. Byron Reese has been thinking about and observing technology for a long time. He says as long as we keep learning, we never need to worry about losing jobs, especial...Show More

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    Thought right provoking episodes with lots of interesting arguments like why “low skilled jobs” aren’t “low skilled” and can’t be replaced by machines. Whereas “high skills jobs” are vulnerable.

  • 9

    The road to purposeful work is paved with good intentions; but for many, happiness at work can feel like a hopeless cause. What if the secret to happiness at work has less to do with our extrinsic mot...Show More

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    Great episode about finding purpose in work. But it nags at me a bit on thinking about whether we ascribe too much purpose to work.

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