Work For Humans
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.
Podcasting since 2022 • 201 episodes
Work For Humans
Latest Episodes
Designing Transformation: How Experience Changes People | Claus Raasted and Paul Bulencea, Revisited
Most organizations approach change as something to manage. A new strategy, a new structure, a new set of goals. But what if real transformation doesn’t come from plans or policies, but from experiences that change how people see themselves and ...
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Season 1
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51:36
From “Me” to “We”: What Leadership Is Really About | Josh Block
Josh Block became president of his family’s medical imaging company at 29, just months after layoffs had shaken trust across the business. People were asking whether he was ready. His answer was simple: not fully. But he knew what he didn’t kno...
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Season 1
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Episode 185
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1:04:38
Building a Customer Movement: How Companies Create Experiences That Work | Alain Thys, Revisited
Many companies treat experience as the final layer of the business: a nicer interface, a friendlier script, a smoother customer interaction. But the real experience of a company comes from something deeper. It grows out of the systems, incentiv...
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1:15:38
The Hidden Cost of Certainty at Work | Margaret Heffernan
In a world that feels increasingly uncertain, making confident business decisions is hard. So we grasp for certainty. Numbers feel certain, but they often give us the false comfort of measuring the wrong things. In her book Embracing Uncert...
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Season 1
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Episode 184
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58:13
The Cost of Managing From Above | William Hurst, Revisited
William Hurst is all too familiar with the disasters that have resulted from tops-down governance. Through years of fieldwork in China and Indonesia, William has seen what happens when decision-makers are cut off from life on the ground. In thi...
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Season 1
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