Life in the Corporate Blender: Why Change is Making Work Worse with Ashley Goodall

Smart People Podcast

Smart People Industries

Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon, unleashing a torrent of disruption on employees. The result is what our guest calls “life in the blender”—a perpetual cycle of upheaval, uncertainty, and unease. Join us this week as we discuss the current state of change in corporate America, why change is not the same as improvement, and what we can do about it. Ashley's book, The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance, is available wherever books are sold. You can learn more about Ashley at ashleygoodall.com. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/spp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.8	Hello and welcome to Smart People podcast conversations that satisfy your curious mind.
0:50.1	Chris Tim here, thanks so much for tuning in.
0:52.3	Our guests this week caught my eye when they wrote a New York Times opinion piece titled
0:57.1	Mass Tech Layoffs, Just Another Day, in the Corporate Blender.
1:04.1	Corporate Blender.
1:05.4	I don't know about you, but when I hear it, it rings true without knowing the details.
1:10.9	How many of you feel like you go to work day in and day out and just get tossed around
1:17.1	by constant bombardment of corporate speak, change initiatives, to do's, and confusing deliverables.
1:26.4	In fact, I'm more amazed that the amount of people don't wonder what the heck is going on
1:31.4	every day when they go on to work and experience the state of what is.
1:36.0	And by the way, the working world has never treated me poorly.
1:40.2	It's not that it's a bad place and by no means are we complaining about it by the fact that we're discussing if it could be done better.
1:50.8	So this week on the show, we're talking about two primary concepts.
1:56.1	One is the constant push towards efficiency and excess profitability.
2:02.4	In addition to, and perhaps more importantly, the notion of constant change.
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