At Work with The Ready

9. Ask Us Anything No. 1: You Asked, We Answered


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“Ask Us Anything” episodes were a Brave New Work tradition, and we knew they were going to live on in this next new chapter of the show. What we didn’t know was how much harder the questions would be this time around! Turns out, after nearly 200 shows our audience is pretty sharp and asking some very specific questions.

On today’s episode of At Work With The Ready, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin look at what arrived in our inbox and tackle our listeners thorniest questions…and even tease a little something coming on the horizon.


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Questions answered in this episode:

  • How do you give critical feedback without being seen as a threat?
  • Any thoughts on orgs moving to eliminate excessive layers of management?
  • What's a workplace project you thought would be easy but turned out to be hard, and vice versa?
  • What's a starting point for orgs that want to work with someone like The Ready?
  • Can you have an episode about the disconnect between senior leadership and where the work happens?

  • Mentioned references:

    • "high and low umbrella"
    • "org debt"
    • "how might we?"
    • Chesterton's Fence
    • Bayer's elimination of managers
    • Humanocracy: BNW Ep. 47 with Michele Zanini
    • Haier's elimination of managers
    • The Ready's OS Canvas
    • Liberating Structures: BNW Ep. 49 with Keith McCandless
    • "anti-pattern"

    • We’re on LinkedIn! Follow Rodney, Sam and The Ready for more org design nerdery and join the conversation around episodes after they air.

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