This is the sixth episode in a series devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything.Today's episode explores the area of resources and the role that will play in navigating this uncertainty.This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References Mentioned: The Ready's The OS Canvas James O. McKinsey, founder of McKinsey & Company “extrapolating trends with Douglas” - Ep. 33 with Douglass Rushkoff Beyond Budgeting Handelsbanken Our book is available now at https://www.bravenewwork.com/We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.comLooking for some help with your own transformation? Visit https://theready.com/

This is the fifth episode in a series devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything.Today's episode explores the area of strategy and the role that will play in navigating this uncertainty.This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References mentioned: The Ready's OS Canvas Beyond Budgeting book Even/Over statements: Brave New Work Ep. 44 Future tensions: Brave New Work Ep. 16 Essentialism by Greg McKeown Barbell strategy Three Horizons Red teaming Howard Hughes, American business magnate Ben Kaufman and CAMP: Brave New Work Ep. 9 Send the questions you'd like to see answered in this series to podcast@theready.comDoes your team need help navigating this moment? Email us at hello@theready.com

This is the fourth episode in a series devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything. Today's episode explores the area of structure and the role that will play in navigating this uncertainty. This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References mentioned:The Ready's OS CanvasSend the questions you'd like to see answered in this series to podcast@theready.comDoes your team need help navigating this moment? Email us at hello@theready.com

This is the third episode in a series devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything.Today's episode digs deep into the area of authority and the role that will play in navigating this uncertainty. This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References mentioned: The Ready's OS Canvas Cynefin framework “The waterline” and W.L. Gore Send the questions you'd like to see answered in this series to podcast@theready.comDoes your team need help navigating this moment? Email us at hello@theready.com

This is the second episode in a series devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything. Today's episode digs deep into the area of purpose and the role that will play in navigating this uncertainty. This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References mentioned: The Ready's OS Canvas Mira Shani, Rodney's yoga teacher Send the questions you'd like to see answered in this series to podcast@theready.comDoes your team need help navigating this moment? Email us at hello@theready.com

This is the first in a series of short episodes devoted to teams in transition due to the Novel Coronavirus. It's about more than simply adapting to remote work—it's about adopting (in the midst of this chaos) a way of working that will make you ready for anything.This Brave New Work miniseries with Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans is based on The Ready's OS Canvas which is featured in Brave New Work.References mentioned:The OS CanvasSend the questions you'd like to see answered in this series to podcast@theready.comDoes your team need help navigating this moment? Email us at hello@theready.com

The one-on-one meeting, often between a manager and their "direct report" is among the most common and popular meetings in existence. But it may also be the most harmful.In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans debate and discuss the best and worst ways to hold this meeting. Later, they're joined by the author of The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier, to figure out how to show up to one-on-ones as a coach rather than a boss.Learn more about Michael and his work on LinkedIn and his website.Learn more about Box of Crayons on their website and on Youtube.Resources mentioned: The Ready's Tension and Practice Deck "Radical candor": Episode 13 with Kim Scott "Dunbar's number" "First 90 days of self-management": Episode 11 with Doug Seacrist "Rockefeller Habits": Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ronald Heifetz Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey Our book is available now at bravenewwork.comWe want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.comLooking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

It's been many years since the release of Frederic Laloux's groundbreaking book Reinventing Organizations. In some ways the world is different—more ready, more radical—and in other ways, not much has changed. More adaptive and soulful ways of working are still fringe. The way forward isn't clear.In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans speak with Frederic about where we stand, where we're heading, and why this moment feels like the last gasp of authoritarianism, extractive capitalism, and all the other -isms.Learn more about Frederic and Reinventing Organizations at his website and his Youtube video series.Mentioned resources: Ken Wilber, specifically stages of development, orange and teal organizations, and Spiral Dynamics The work of Parker Palmer Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan (if you haven't read it yet, now's your chance!) Brian Robertson's theory of "evolutionary purpose" Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco and author/speaker Taylorism Douglas McGregor, management professor and author of The Human Side of Enterprise Our book is available now at bravenewwork.comWe want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.comLooking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

Facing a pandemic, many of the world's institutions are finally giving remote work, agility, responsiveness, and basic human decency some deep consideration. Meanwhile, it's becoming clear that organizations who have already been prioritizing adaptivity and humanity at work are surprisingly well prepared to face this challenge.In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans explore what we can learn from a moment like this, and why creating a culture built on autonomy, transparency, and decentralization makes sense with or without a crisis. In this moment of disruption and anxiety, it felt good to sit down and focus on what we can do, rather than second guessing the past, or predicting the future. Stay safe out there people.Mentioned resources: "Enabling and governing constraints" from Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework "Learn by Doing episode" - Ep. 9 with Ben Kaufman "Tom's episode" - Ep. 16 with Thomas Thomison Get more information about COVID-19 from the CDC and the WHO.Our book is available now at bravenewwork.comWe want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.comLooking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

Our job is to keep the organization safe, right? And in order to do that we need to predict the future, see around corners, and avoid unnecessary risk. We need to be able to list all the ways the idea we're considering can go wrong. Or... do we? In this episode, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk about a concept The Ready calls "future tension," which is what happens when we let our worries about the future hijack the present. Later, they’re joined by Thomas Thomison, founding partner of Encode.org, who takes us deep into the origins of the concept and teaches us how to overcome it.Learn more about Thomas on LinkedIn.Learn more about Thomas' work at Encode.org, HolacracyOne, and PowerShift Capital.Resources mentioned:David Allen and "Getting Things Done"Our book is available now at bravenewwork.comWe want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.comLooking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com