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- AI
- AUA
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- OS Canvas
- Rodney Evans
- Sam Rothkopf
- Sam Spurlin
- authority
- built to benefit from change
- bureaucracy
- burnout
- capitalism
- career
- change management
- chief of staff
- communication
- competitive advantage
- consulting
- employee ownership
- executive team
- founders
- jobs
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- office politics
- org debt
- productivity
- profit sharing
- strategy
- success
- sunshine zone
- transparency
- twilight zone
- ways of working
- work
- work design
Ep. 54: Change Only Sticks If It Starts At The Top: Resetting Your Executive Team
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.
AUA: Are Ego-Driven Leaders The Only Kind That Succeed?
Rodney and Sam explore survivorship bias, frontier founders, and a definition of success that counts more than the balance sheet.
Ep. 53: The Chief of Staff’s Real Job: Turning Strategy Into Action
Rodney and guest co-host Sam Rothkopf recharter the most misused role on the leadership team: the chief of staff.
AUA: When Do Checklists Turn Into Compliance Theater?
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.
Ep. 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.
AUA: How Do You Tell Leadership What They Don't Want To Hear?
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.
Ep. 51. It's Time, Babe: How to Know When to Leave Your Job
Rodney and Sam explore how to tell when it's time to leave a job and what they’ve learned from their own experiences.
AUA: How Do You Make Employee Ownership Actually Feel Real?
Rodney and Sam explore what it takes to move past the financial transaction of employee ownership and into an actual ownership culture—structure, authority, and all.
Ep. 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.