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Work In Progress
by Patrick McKendry
Work in Progress, a weekly psychological deep dive into business current events. Ranging from Elon Musk’s pivot of Twitter to a local town’s task of disposing of 500 pounds of pasta, we’ll touch on what is happening, explore the organizational forces at play using psychological frameworks, and talk about what we all can learn in order to be more effective and successful in our own careers.Whether you’re an individual looking for additional mentorship, or a team leader looking to more intentionally support their team, I think you’ll find useful tactics here.
Episodes
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Bill C-18 & The "Will" and The "Way" to Behavior Change
In Canada, Meta is no longer showing news on its platform. The hardline move is a defensive play to try and prevent further legislation around how social media companies deliver and monetize publisher content that is shared on their platforms. Granted, most everyone is favor of NOT seeing news…
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LK-99 & Lessons in Product Delivery
LK-99 drew the excitement of the scientific community and then drew its ire. Promoted as the highly improbable and equally sought-after room-temperature superconductor, replication studies quickly found blatant errors in the study design and data collection of the initial research team. Beyond…
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What Barbenheimer Teaches About Our Strengths and Opportunities
Barbenheimer has become an internet meme sensation for the stark differences of its two titular characters. In truth, the movies and its protagonists share striking similarities as they respectively explore their theme of internal conflict. For us and our teams, the movies highlight a universal...
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Record Heat & Our Short-Term Thinking Demise
Across the globe, billions of people are experiencing a heat wave. June was the hottest month on record and July looks like it will warm up even further, with day-after-day of record high global temperatures. Climate scientists are consistently highlighting the cause - weak effects from an…
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Threads vs Twitter - How & Why to be a Good Copycat
Last week, amidst more troubles at Twitter, Meta released its twitter-killer alternative. Threads, like other apps that have already hit the market, mirrors many of the key features and the app interface of Twitter. As we look through history, we see plenty of stories of competitors copying from...
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Lionel Messi - Productive vs Busy
How can you not talk about the greatest player of all time after the greatest World Cup final of all time? Sharing a few lessons from Messi that we can all learn from, even if we're not (yet) performing on the world stage. Data references from this article: https://lnkd.in/eMwxuiam
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The U.S. Supreme Court - How Structures Can Reduce Bias
The Supreme Court wrapped up hearings on its latest session with another round of blockbuster decisions, rolling back affirmative action and reducing civil rights protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community. While acting conservatively to try and reduce the impact of bias on our society, the...
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Reddit - Unnecessarily Difficult Change Management
Reddit found itself on the front page of the news this week as more than 2,000 community moderators continued their protest against the platform and co-founder CEO Steve Huffman. Focused around a change to the company's API pricing and the resulting loss of features from 3rd-party developers, the...
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Leadership Starts Where Layoffs End - Building Resilience in Teams
Leadership is defined when times are at their worst. For companies, there might be no worse time than the days after a layoff. After layoffs, employee motivation is at or near all time lows, momentum that had been building is very likely stopped, and team leads throughout the organization are...
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500 Pounds of Pasta & Handling the Unexpected
In business, things usually do not go according to plan. Even those surprises are not quite so unexpected as seeing hundreds of pounds of pasta suddenly appear in the woods of small town America. Officials of Old Bridge, New Jersey encountered just this problem. Their response has a lot to teach…
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Theranos & The Curse of High Expectations
Without a doubt, Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos executive team are criminals. After defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars, Holmes's fate was sealed this week as the date for her prison sentence to begin was set. Still, it is important for us to recognize that we are also…
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Relationship Advice - How to Work Most Effectively with your Boss
Every year the world celebrates Valentine’s Day, a holiday for our nearest and dearest relationships. But when we think about important relationships, there is one connection that gets consistently overlooked and under-analyzed - the one with our manager. They are one of the most influential…
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Mass Layoffs & Bad Leadership - A Rant
This episode is just a rant. Nearly a quarter of a million people have been laid off in the tech sector over the past 13 months. That is a large amount of social disruption that has largely been explained away as a result of macroeconomic factors and the reversing digital trends post-pandemic....
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Elon Musk Buys Twitter - How NOT to Start a New Job
Elon Musk's first month as Chief Twit has been the opposite of a smooth start - dropping ~75% of his workforce, losing advertisers in droves, and a mess of new product feature rollouts. Personally, I have never started a new job as CEO of a company and maybe you have not either. But here is my...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Work in Progress, a weekly psychological deep dive into business current events. Ranging from Elon Musk’s pivot of Twitter to a local town’s task of disposing of 500 pounds of pasta, we’ll touch on what is happening, explore the organizational forces at play using psychological frameworks, and talk about what we all can learn in order to be more effective and successful in our own careers.Whether you’re an individual looking for additional mentorship, or a team leader looking to more intentionally support their team, I think you’ll find useful tactics here.
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Patrick McKendry
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Work in Progress, a weekly psychological deep dive into business current events. Ranging from Elon Musk’s pivot of Twitter to a local town’s task of disposing of 500 pounds of pasta, we’ll touch on what is happening, explore the organizational forces at play using psychological frameworks, and talk...
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