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.

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.

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.

Rodney and Sam Rothkopf explore what leadership looks like when change never stops, and why org design without individual-level shifts will only get you so far.

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.

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.

Rodney and Sam explore survivorship bias, frontier founders, and a definition of success that counts more than the balance sheet.

Rodney and guest co-host Sam Rothkopf recharter the most misused role on the leadership team: the chief of staff.

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.

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.

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.

Rodney and Sam explore how to tell when it's time to leave a job and what they’ve learned from their own experiences.

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.

Rodney and Sam explore what the movement to transform how organizations work got wrong, and what’s actually worth doing now.

Rodney and Sam explore why defining human judgment and authority matters more than rewriting task lists for AI.

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.

Rodney and Sam unpack how L&D can build capabilities—not just content—in the age of AI.

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.

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.

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.