Aaron Carroll: In your book, you talk about culture being your shadow and the idea that you can't really change it directly. He says what we should do is work the system instead of trying to make things better by changing them directly. "I think these things, both cathartic as well as really informative," he adds. 'It couldn't have picked a better way to kick off this conversation than to have this conversation'
Happy new year! We're not really resolution-making types, but the incrementing of the annum is a good time to take a breath and think about some ways we might want to approach our work differently. On this episode, we took a pretty big swing at "culture" — sitting down with Aaron Dignan, founder of Murmur, author of Brave New Work (and host of the eponymous podcast) — to discuss some of the ways modern organizations are, well, broken! From there, to the analysts within those organizations, to frameworks and approaches for getting to a better way of working, it was a brain-stretching way to kick off 2023! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.