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Ep. 58. The One Where Sam Says Goodbye
Rodney says goodbye to Sam and teases what’s next for the show.
AUA: How to Get Institutional Knowledge Out of People’s Heads
Rodney and Sam explore why knowledge management can be such an issue and better ways to share what you know with your organization.
AUA: How To Rip The Bandaid Off At Work
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.
AUA: How Do Leaders Stop Being The Decision Bottleneck?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ep. 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.
Ep. 48. Office Politics: The Fun and Frustration of Palace Intrigue
Rodney and Sam explore what happens when strategy and operating clarity break down and personal relationships become the only way to get anything done.
AUA: Should HR Rewrite Job Descriptions for AI?
Rodney and Sam explore why defining human judgment and authority matters more than rewriting task lists for AI.
AUA: What Keeps Teams Together When AI Does The Work?
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.
AUA: What Should L&D Do About AI Right Now?
Rodney and Sam unpack how L&D can build capabilities—not just content—in the age of AI.
Ep. 44: Forget ROI - The Ethical Case for Good Org Design
Rodney and Sam unpack why “it’s profitable” isn’t a high enough bar for how we design work in 2026.
Ep. 43: Dual Transformation Is The Future…And Nobody’s Prepared
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.
Ep. 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.
Ep. 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.