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 • 198 episodes
Work For Humans
Latest Episodes
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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58:25
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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1:16:35
The Toxicity We Tolerate at Work | Catherine Mattice
Toxicity at work isn’t always obvious. Most times, it shows up as sarcasm, neglect, and unresolved conflict. Catherine Mattice learned this firsthand while working as an HR leader inside an organization where one person slowly broke a good cult...
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Season 1
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Episode 183
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1:03:16
Technology Alone Won’t Change the World | Kentaro Toyama, Revisited
Kentaro Toyama spent a decade designing technologies to fight global poverty and improve education and health. As co-founder of Microsoft Research India lab, he made a troubling discovery – innovative technologies can’t create change on their o...
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Season 1
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1:06:26
The Problem With Scale: What Growing Too Big Does to Work | Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West didn’t set out to explain work. He was a physicist trying to understand why living things grow, age, and die. But when his questions expanded into biology, cities, and organizations, they offered a way to think about why growth ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 182
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1:10:34
