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Ep. 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.
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.
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.
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 . 41: Why Your AI Strategy Stalled with Greg Shove
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.
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.
Ep. 8: Traditional Consulting Sold You a Great Idea. Now What?
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin dig into what traditional consulting promises and what it does and doesn’t deliver.
Ep. 2: Your PowerPoint Deck Is Not a Strategy
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why strategy as we know it so often fails and how to design a strategy operating rhythm that actually works.
90. Do What’s Essential with Greg McKeown
Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans explore how to stop doing everything and only focus on what's most important.
44. Prioritizing Your Priorities with Even/Overs
Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans explore an essential team tool for discovering your core priorities.