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At Work with The Ready

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Revisiting the Mundane in Organizations

This chapter focuses on the speakers' reflections on past episodes, particularly their desire to delve deeper into the significance of mundane tasks within organizations. They humorously discuss their varying organizational styles and express a longing to revisit earlier themes in HR for a more comprehensive exploration.

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Speaker 2
It makes me want to go back and listen to the episode. It sounds like it was a good one.
Speaker 1
It was a good one. On the other side of things, what episode would you do over if you could have a, what's that called? A mulligan? A mulligan. A mulligan.
Speaker 2
From
Speaker 1
the I Love Lucy show. Yeah, a mulligan.
Speaker 2
I wouldn want it to be a mulligan in the sense that it replaces what we made. Because I think what we made was really good. But it would just be another crack at that same basic idea. And it was all the small things episode. So the mundane stuff episode. I think there's a lot more that we could talk about in the category of like the mundane stuff to sweat if you're trying to do this work in an organization. And I think we, that one kind of feels like an introductory sort of episode. And I feel like we could do a deeper level on it because for me, and I get a little bit into this in the episode, there's like this paradox of the really boring mundane shit where you hear me say something, you're like, like, how does that actually matter? Like, that's just you being very persnickety about a way to do something. And that just being like a, a peephole into a larger universe of like how we do everything. And I don't know that it was particularly articulate about that aspect of it in the episode. And I'd love to take another crack at kind of the philosophical connection to really caring about the mundane stuff.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Also, I mean, I do feel like the mundane is your love language, basically. So I think probably once a season, we should just give you an episode where you can really be comfortable.
Speaker 2
I bring my backlog of stuff that I've thought about and we just kind of rattle through it.
Speaker 1
And we just let you have your time to shine and just talk about habits and routines and technology and passwords and shit. I don't know. We should just let the old man have one. You know what I mean? Like, uh, I mean, if
Speaker 2
we have, we'll have that in the, in the, in the quiver for like, if you ever, if you're ever sick or something, you can't make an episode. It's like, all right, just let Sam, just let him loose for an hour and he'll, he'll do his thing.
Speaker 1
Yeah. You definitely don't need me there. Also, Jack, I want you to link in wherever you put this to the thing jack dm'd me a thing the other night that was from i think a podcast where two women are talking and one of them doesn't use the calendar on her she uses no digital calendar yeah
Speaker 2
i saw that too and the other
Speaker 1
one is like i'm breaking out in hives um no because i also incredibly organized. But it just tickled me.
Speaker 2
I mean, there are aspects of that relationship that I think is true for our relationship as well, but maybe not the calendar thing.
Speaker 1
Probably not the calendar thing. I'm pretty wedded to that. All
Speaker 2
right. What about you? What's your episode that you want to take another crack at?
Speaker 1
Well, I mean, I would obviously love to be there for a future Jason Fox episode. He and I got to catch up the other night one-on because I wasn't there for the recording, and it was just, like, super fun, and I felt like I could talk to him for three more hours, and hopefully will someday. But besides that, because I just missed it, not exactly this season, but like I really have a hankering to do a bunch more on future of HR. I mean, now that we have so many future of HR projects, like when you and I made that arc, it was a very well researched and very well validated, like early body of work. And we had done work with clients that was very related. Like we had proof of concept and we had real market validation of the ideas and we had first projects launched. But now a year later, like we know so, so much that we didn't know then. And now I just feel like there's so much expertise in the ready about what HR is and what it should become and what it is holding it back. And I think if I went back and listened to those episodes now, I'd be yelling at the speaker to just be like, no, you need to say this thing. This is actually the most important thing. So I would love another crack at that.

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