Work For Humans
by Dart Lindsley
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About this podcast
Too often business leaders are forced to choose between the needs of their company and the needs of their employees. It’s a lose/lose scenario leaving managers burned out and workers seeking other opportunities. At Work for Humans, we believe work can be designed differently. When you design work like products people love, your company wins. Work becomes irresistible, employees passionately buy into their roles every day, and your company takes measurable strides towards your vision.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 231 episodes
- Humanity-Centered Design: Who Is Your Product Really For? | Don Norman, Revisited · 43 min · Season 1At 86, Don Norman decided his life’s work was not enough. While his books made gadgets easier to use, they could not fix a world in crisis. So he looked back on his years as an…
- 200 Episodes of Work for Humans: The Life-Changing ROI of Podcasting | Jason Ames · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 200Dart Lindsley wanted to publish a book, but agent after agent turned him down despite the quality of his work. Finally, one told him why: he wasn't famous. So he climbed into his…
- Radical Respect: How to Say What You Mean Without Being a Jerk | Kim Scott, Revisited · 1 h 5 min · Season 1In her first job out of college, Kim Scott thought managing Russian diamond cutters would be simple: pay them well and the rest follows. It wasn't. They wanted a picnic, and by…
- Pay for Performance: How Compensation Becomes a System of Control | James A. Seechurn · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 199James Seechurn spent over a decade building compensation programs on a simple premise: design the incentive right, and you'll get the behavior you want. But his first clue that…
- Dangerously Incompetent: How AI and Robots Are Deskilling the Workforce | Matt Beane, Revisited · 1 h 13 min · Season 1In robotic surgery, a device good enough to let the surgeon operate alone makes the resident, the future expert, optional. Matt Beane saw this pattern everywhere technology gets…
- Employees Are Family: How John Chambers Played Hardball at Cisco Without Getting Ruthless · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 198Under John Chambers, Cisco grew from $70 million to $47 billion, completed 180 acquisitions, and became the most valuable company in the world. He built the company on one idea…
- 7 Rules for Gaining Power and Influence at Work | Jeffrey Pfeffer, Revisited · 57 min · Season 1Jeffrey Pfeffer has spent decades showing that people-first companies outperform, and just as long watching that evidence lose to habit. His answer is blunt: whether you're…
- Positive Discipline at Work: Why People Do Better When They Feel Better | Alanna Beebe · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 197Parents come to Alanna Beebe's classes hoping to change their kid. But by the second week, most of them realize the person who needs to change is them. Soon after, they notice…
- How Companies Create Bad Performers | Elena Aylott, Revisited · 1 h 27 min · Season 1When Elena Aylott was asked to lead HR at Oriflame Cosmetics, she initially saw the function as administrative and feared becoming a “chief firing officer.” Instead, she saw an…
- How Sabbaticals Can Change Your Career | DJ DiDonna · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 196DJ DiDonna had built the kind of career many people would be reluctant to walk away from. He cofounded a growing company, built a life around work, and had every reason to keep…
- What We Get Wrong About Work | Barry Schwartz, Revisited · 1 h 32 min · Season 1We’ve spent decades designing work around the idea that people need incentives to perform. But what happens when the systems designed to motivate people actually get in the way…
- When Career Success Feels Unfulfilling | Megan Hellerer · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 195Megan Hellerer had done everything she was supposed to do. She went to Stanford, graduated with a 3.9, and dutifully climbed the ladder at Google. But the life that looked great…
- The Core Value Equation: Building Culture That Scales | Darius Mirshahzadeh, Revisited · 1 h 1 min · Season 1Darius Mirshahzadeh built the company he'd always wanted. In just three years, he grew it from a one-person operation into one of the fastest-growing companies in the United…
- The Missing Discipline for Better Work | Chris Metcalfe · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 194After years building software products, Chris Metcalfe crossed into People & Culture and noticed something surprising. Organizations invested enormous effort into understanding…
- Jobs to Be Done: A Better Way to Understand Customers | Jim Kalbach, Revisited · 1 h 4 min · Season 1Most companies obsess over products, but Jim Kalbach believes they're asking the wrong question. Customers don't buy products because of what they are. They "hire" them to make…
- Designing Better Work With Product Thinking | Vanessa Monsequeira · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 193Vanessa Monsequeira spent years leading change initiatives and helping organizations roll out new systems. Again and again, she saw that the hardest part wasn't convincing people…
- Beyond HR: The Rise of Human Development | Bob Aubrey, Revisited · 1 h 18 min · Season 1Dr. Bob Aubrey has spent decades advancing the field of human development across Asia. With experience spanning 25 countries and six continents, he founded and chairs the…
- Teal Organizations: A Better Way to Organize Work | Matthew Spaur · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 192Most organizations are built around hierarchy, clear reporting lines, and top-down control. But a growing number are experimenting with a different way of organizing work through…
- Experience Design: Creating More Meaningful Work | Abraham Burickson, Revisited · 1 h 14 minTwenty years ago, Abraham Burickson and his collaborators asked a simple question: what if a work of art were designed for just one person? Instead of creating experiences for…
- Building Organizations for a Future That Doesn't Fit the Past | Rishad Tobaccowala · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 191Rishad Tobaccowala has spent much of his career breaking out of boxes. First it was the spreadsheet and the idea that organizations can be managed through numbers alone. Then it…
