Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson
Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson discusses every working person's work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don't even have time to think and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like "a Monday through Friday sort of dying."
Episodes
26 episodes
Fantasy Football and the Good Life, featuring Coach Caruso.
Is fantasy football part of the good life, is it just a colossal waste of time – or worse? This podcast is ordinarily about work, but this episode is about play, and whether any redeeming consequences come from the work that a $...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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35:07
2023 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee - George Lee
The Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Award was established in 2021 to honor Ken Melrose, namesake of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership and fervent champion of ethics and servant leadership as well as p...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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39:02
Is Your Work Worth It? Part Three: A conversation with Chad Sokol.
Is Your Work Worth It? : A conversation with Chad Sokol is the third of three episodes of Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson featuring interviewees whose stories appear in my new book with Jennifer Tosti-...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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27:00
Is Your Work Worth It? Part Two: A conversation with Kristine Enea, JD.
Is Your Work Worth It? : A conversation with Kristine Enea, JD, is the second of three episodes of Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson featuring interviewees whose stories appear in my new book with Jennif...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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33:19
Is Your Work Worth It? Part One: A conversation with Dennis Curley.
Is Your Work Worth It? : A conversation with Dennis Curley is the first of three episodes of Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson featuring interviewees whose stories appear in my new book with Jennifer Tos...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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34:21
In Search of Careers for the Common Good Part Four: A conversation with John Sullivan, J.D.
In Search of Careers for the Common Good is a four-part series of candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore – discussing the ways in which reality and one’s ideals ab...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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40:19
In Search of Careers for the Common Good Part Three: A conversation with Lindsey Hickey.
In Search of Careers for the Common Good is a four-part series of candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore – discussing the ways in which reality and one’s ideals about car...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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31:37
In Search of Careers for the Common Good Part Two: A conversation with Katrina Anderson.
In Search of Careers for the Common Good is a four-part series of candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore – discussing the ways in which reality and one’s ideals ab...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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40:37
In Search of Careers for the Common Good Part One: A conversation with Cesar Osvaldo Mendez Portillo.
In Search of Careers for the Common Good is a four-part series of candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore – discussing the ways in which reality and one’s id...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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31:20
Principled Leadership Research Fellows: A discussion about apple commodity markets, K-Pop's cultural influence on business, and building trust in the workplace.
In this episode, Michaelson moderates a discussion with each of the 2022 Principled Leadership Fellows from the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership. So, how is it that apples, K-Pop and building trust are dis...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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42:47
A conversation about business, family and the business of family.
In this episode, Michaelson moderates a panel discussion titled: Family business: How to create meaningful work for the family, employees and betterment of the community, as part of the University of St. Thomas Schulze School of Entrep...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:19:21
A Raisin in the Sun Panel Discussion at the Guthrie Theater
In this episode, host, Christopher Michaelson, intermixes his commentary with a recording of a panel discussion taken during an in-person event at the Guthrie Theater in May 2022. The special event titled, A Raisin in the Sun: Panel Discuss...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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37:37
2022 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardee - Erica Neubert Campbell
The Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Award was established in 2021 to honor Ken Melrose, namesake of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership and fervent champion of ethics and servant leadership as well as p...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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32:34
Klara and the Sun: A conversation about of the nature of intelligence and the cost (and benefits) of progress.
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have t...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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39:27
What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part three
As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best and worst in human behavior, it has also brought out the best and worst in business behavior. This virtual series seeks to learn from the ethical successes and failures of business durin...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:16:13
What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part two
As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best and worst in human behavior, it has also brought out the best and worst in business behavior. This virtual series seeks to learn from the ethical successes and failures of business durin...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:06:33
What have we learned about business and ethics from the pandemic discussion series: Part one
As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best and worst in human behavior, it has also brought out the best and worst in business behavior. This discussion series seeks to learn from the ethical successes and failures of business du...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:19:40
What is the purpose of work? A discussion with Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO & author of The Heart of Business
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have t...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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42:20
2021 Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Awardees
The Melrose Twin Cities Principled Leadership Award was established in 2021 to honor Ken Melrose, namesake of the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership and fervent champion of ethics and servant leadership as well as p...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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57:20
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A conversation about finding redemption at work and in life with Guthrie Theater Artistic Director, Joe Haj, and playwright Lavina Jadhwani
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have t...
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47:20
Twenty Years After 9/11 Part Three: A conversation with Jackie Zins & Stacy Pervall, former representatives of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
As the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the podcast features a multipart series that includes interviews with survivors of the terrorist attacks exploring the question, ‘What can the lives that were tragically lost during the 9/1...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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34:18
Twenty Years After 9/11 Part Two: A conversation with Fred Price, managing director at Piper Sandler
As the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the podcast features a multipart series that includes interviews with survivors of the terrorist attacks exploring the question, ‘What can the lives that were tragically lost during the 9/1...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:19
Twenty Years After 9/11 Part One: A conversation about meaningful work with Jen Tosti-Kharas
As the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the podcast features a multipart series that includes interviews with survivors of the terrorist attacks exploring the question, ‘What can the lives that were tragically lost during the 9/1...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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49:25
Who is Capitalism? A conversation about Homeland Elegies with Ayad Akhtar and Azish Filabi
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:01:53
What is the Dilemma in the Social Dilemma? A conversation about Netflix’s Popular Documentary with Shuili Du and Lisa Abendroth
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have t...
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55:56