The Ready 4/20/26 The Ready 4/20/26

Ep. 47. The Chaos Tax Is Slowing Your Org Down

Rodney and Sam dig into one of the most undertalked sources of organizational drag — the chaos and learned helplessness created by founders and leaders who mistake speed and control for momentum.

The Ready 4/13/26 The Ready 4/13/26

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.

The Ready 3/2/26 The Ready 3/2/26

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.

The Ready 2/23/26 The Ready 2/23/26

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.

The Ready 2/9/26 The Ready 2/9/26

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.

The Ready 1/12/26 The Ready 1/12/26

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.

The Ready 12/1/25 The Ready 12/1/25

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.

The Ready 11/3/25 The Ready 11/3/25

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.

The Ready 6/2/25 The Ready 6/2/25

Ep. 27: Everything Can’t Be Priority One

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why prioritizing everything means prioritizing nothing, what keeps teams from letting go, and how to make space for the work that actually matters.

The Ready 4/21/25 The Ready 4/21/25

Depthfinding Ep. 7: From Leadership to Stewardship

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why our traditional management playbooks keep failing us and how rethinking “leadership” from the ground up is the future.

The Ready 3/10/25 The Ready 3/10/25

Depthfinding Ep. 5: The Midnight Zone - Experience, Emotions, and Reactions at Work

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore how the deepest forces shaping an organization live in the Midnight Zone—where individual experience, fear, ambition, and emotional undercurrents drive (or block) real change.

The Ready 1/27/25 The Ready 1/27/25

Depthfinding Ep. 2: The Sky - Threats and Opportunities

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why most organizations stay heads-down in the day-to-day, how that creates blind spots that lead to org debt and misaligned strategy, and what a regular practice of looking up and outward actually looks like.

The Ready 10/28/24 The Ready 10/28/24

Ep. 22: Founder Mode vs. Manager Mode is the Wrong Question

Rodney and Sam dig into how “founder mode” actually shows up in practice, where it causes more harm to an organization than good, what it means when real leadership seems to be left out of the discussion entirely.

The Ready 9/30/24 The Ready 9/30/24

Ep. 20: Psychological Safety Starts With Your Leadership Team

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why psychological safety in organizations has to start at the top, and why it’s harder than it sounds.

The Ready 7/22/24 The Ready 7/22/24

Ep. 15: This Workshop Could Have Been A Meeting

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore the ways in which corporate workshops can go sideways and how to plan memorable off-sites where things actually happen.

The Ready 6/24/24 The Ready 6/24/24

Ep. 13: Leadership Teams of the Future Act Like Org Designers

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin explore why most leadership teams still operate like it's the 1950s — and how that stagnation blocks the rest of the organization from becoming more adaptable and resilient.