Process Debt
by Chris Terrell
BusinessE · Explicit
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About this podcast
What is Process Debt?
The hidden burden of inefficient processes that erode growth, employee satisfaction, and organizational success
We all have a little 'process debt' in our lives and careers. In our podcast, "Process Debt," we explore the daily challenges and frustrations with the hidden systems that steal joy from our work. From personal anecdotes to professional insights, join us for insights you can used to start changing those those broken business systems
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 108 episodes
- Two Years in Review: Navigating Process Debt and the Last Mile of Knowledge Work · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 109The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Overcome the costly last mile problem in knowledge work, streamline messy…
- The Invisible Warehouse of Waste: Why Knowledge Work Breaks Down and How to Reclaim Flow · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 108The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Stop losing productive hours to invisible friction, endless rework, and fuzzy…
- The Scorecard Trap: Why Obsessing Over Vanity Metrics Kills Knowledge Work Flow · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 107The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Discover how obsessing over vanity metrics creates hidden process debt, destroys…
- Why Broken Processes Are Purely Transactional (And How Relational Ones Fix Them) · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 106The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Discover why purely transactional processes create burnout, and learn how…
- The Tengu Mindset: Applying Samurai Discipline to Modern Leadership with Aaron Streeton · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 105The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Escape perpetual firefighting, build intentional operational discipline, and stop…
- Kryptonite in the Office: What's Really Stopping Your Focus · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 104The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. • Discover how workplace Kryptonite quietly drains your cognitive bandwidth and…
- Why Peer Pressure is the Hidden Killer of Process Efficiency · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 103The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Peer pressure is quietly hijacking your workflows. Learn how social friction…
- AI Doom and the Human Need to Go the Last Mile · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 102Process Debt: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Unmonitored generative tools yield fragile architectures and unearned optimism. Discover how…
- Beyond Ignorance: Why We Fail in an Age of Expertise · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 101The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. In an age of infinite information, experts don't fail from ignorance—they fail from…
- Facebook and the Distraction Economy · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 100The Process Debt Podcast: Improving knowledge work processes to help you reach One Peace Flow. Uncover how the distraction economy drains 25% of your workday and learn how to…
- From Signal to Value: Finding One-Peace Flow in Knowledge Work · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 99In a world inundated with digital distractions and artificial noise, finding genuine contentment in your work can feel impossible. Join us as we explore the concept of "one peace…
- The Hidden Cost of Unsanctioned AI: How to Avoid "AI-Assisted Process Debt" · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 98Are you building a smarter workflow, or just generating AI-assisted process debt? In Episode 98 of the Process Debt Podcast, hosts Toby and Terrill sit down with HubSpot expert…
- Bad Process Kills Good People · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 97The factory floor was brutal, but it was legible: you assembled ten cars or you didn't, and you could see the waste piling up on the floor. Knowledge work took the clear verdict…
- You Didn't Lose Your Attention Span. The Friction Moved · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 96A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and someone figured that out back in 1971, before the internet existed to prove it. This week, Chris and Toby dig into why…
- The Task Got Done. Nothing Happened. · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 95Corey Blumenfeld built an outsourcing company by accident—and learned the hard way that finishing the task isn't the same as doing the job. In this episode, Chris and Toby talk…
- Your Simplest Processes Are Fine. It's the Invisible Ones That'll Sink You · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 94Time reporting is easy to fix. You entered your hours or you didn't, a manager approved them or didn't, and when something breaks you can find the exact spot in about thirty…
- The World Cup Won't Care How Much You Want the U.S. to Win · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 93You already know France and Argentina are the better bet. You root for the U.S. anyway. That's harmless on a Saturday. It's expensive on Monday — because it's exactly how we run…
- Your Personal Process Has Debt Too · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 92You spend your days diagnosing why nobody updates the board and why the dashboard tells three different stories. But when's the last time you audited your own process? This week…
- The Proximity Problem: Why the People Closest to the Fix Are the Last Ones Who Can Sell It · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 91The person closest to a broken process is usually the one least able to get it fixed. They've done the analysis, proven the solution, estimated the cost — and still can't get it…
- An MoU isn't a finish line. It's a starting gun. · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 90Everybody loves the announcement. Nobody talks about the 18 months that come after it. This week, Chris and Toby use the US-Iran memorandum of understanding as a case study in…
