Does Subway know that people will miss the $5 footlong? Josh and Megan discuss Aston Martin's approach to gender "diversity" on their board, and we go through a list that Megan actually likes about ways that organizational change can fail. We also encourage leadership to reassure employees about what will NOT change during large organizational shifts. OH! and we play Name That Bias!

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Adding Womenhttps://jalopnik.com/aston-martin-adds-women-to-its-formerly-all-male-board-1828946850 (https://jalopnik.com/aston-martin-adds-women-to-its-formerly-all-male-board-1828946850)

Leading Change - when it failsfile:///Users/meganbissell/Desktop/LEADING_CHANGE_WHY_TRANSFORMAT.pdf (file:///Users/meganbissell/Desktop/LEADING_CHANGE_WHY_TRANSFORMAT.pdf)

To embrace change, say what will stay the samehttps://hbr.org/2018/08/research-to-get-people-to-embrace-change-emphasize-what-will-stay-the-same?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin (https://hbr.org/2018/08/research-to-get-people-to-embrace-change-emphasize-what-will-stay-the-same?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin)

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