#154 Beyond the Spotify Model: CTO Kevin Goldsmith on Agile, Authority & Empowering Teams
How do you lead a high-performing, empowered team? Kevin Goldsmith, a former Adobe and Spotify leader, joins the Humanizing Work Show to share his journey from engineering to executive leadership. We ...
4 Nov 202458min
#153 Behind the Scenes of a 50-Person Remote Retro
Get an inside look at how professional facilitators design and run high-stakes remote meetings. Follow along as we dissect a real 50-person marketing team retrospective, from initial planning through ...
28 Okt 202416min
#152 Decision-Making in Consensus Cultures
Does it take meeting after meeting to get to a decision in your organization? Do decisions you thought were done come back to life if someone later feels like they weren’t included enough? In this epi...
21 Okt 202414min
#151 What Business Teams Can Learn From Jazz (Edited Rebroadcast)
In this edited rebroadcast from Season 2, Episode 2, we explore the surprising lessons a professional jazz quintet can teach us about business cultures and teams. The original, unedited version with a...
14 Okt 202439min
#150 Dealing With 'But We Must!' Management
A HW Show Classic Rebroadcast from 2022, this is one of our most viewed episodes, and we're excited to bring it to our broader audience. Episode page: https://www.humanizingwork.com/but-we-must-manage...
7 Okt 20248min
#149 Using Focused Conversations to Access Group Wisdom
Are you tired of wasting hours in unproductive meetings? The average professional spends over 30 hours each month in meetings that go nowhere. In this episode, we introduce the Focused Conversation me...
30 Sep 202411min
#148 Streamlining Cross-Team Coordination: Save Time, Catch Details That Matter
In this episode of the Humanizing Work Show, Peter and Richard delve into the often messy world of cross-team coordination. While collaborating within a team has its challenges, coordinating between t...
23 Sep 20249min
#147 To Plan or Not to Plan?
“We’re agile—we don’t need to plan.” “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Which is right? In this episode, Peter and Richard explore two common mistakes around planning—either trying to pl...
16 Sep 202414min
