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 • 194 episodes
Work For Humans
Latest Episodes
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
What Classrooms Reveal About Designing Better Work | Peter Liljedahl, Revisited
After decades in education, Dr. Peter Liljedahl realized that many classrooms fail to engage the people inside them. Rather than accept that reality, he began challenging every classroom norm he could find, asking a single question of each one:...
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Season 1
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1:10:48
What Complex Organizations Do to Ethics | Ed Freeman
Ethical questions at work rarely show up as rules or compliance issues. They show up in the systems organizations design and the outcomes those systems produce. And even well-intentioned leaders can create harm without meaning to. In this episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 181
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1:06:23
The Experience IS the Brand | Alder Yarrow, Revisited
Experience is brand. The experiences people have with a company shape how they feel, what they trust, and whether they stay. Creating those experiences is not just about interfaces or marketing. It requires rethinking internal processe...
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1:18:50
What Happens When AI Removes Friction from Work | Aaron Horwath
While leading L&D at Creative Force, Aaron Horwath and his leaders began treating work as a product to be designed. That shift had wide effects, including something unexpected. Creative Force became one of the few companies to implement AI ...
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Season 1
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Episode 180
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1:14:04
