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The Busyness Paradox — 63 episodes

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1

Semantically Empty: Corporate BS and the Paradox of Sounding Smart

2

AI in HR: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Live from SMA)

3

Free Bagels Won’t Fix It: Why Gen Z Hates Work

4

Return to Office: Bagels, Spreadsheets, and the Productivity Pendulum

5

Beyond the Bill: Tipping Trends and Research Revelations

6

Kneeling at the Altar of Busyness

7

Why Not Win? A Discussion with Larry Thornton and Dave Ketchen

8

The Paradox of Fearing Change

9

Mo' Money, Mo' Busywork

10

Artificial Work Meets Artificial Intelligence

11

Who’s The Real Time Thief?

12

When Working Hard Looks Like Hardly Working

13

Excessively Lean: When a Lack of Slack Bites You in the Back

14

Unions, Strikes, and Your Rights with Dan Gilmore

15

Repressing Workers With Busywork

16

Let's Get Down(sized)!

17

Striking Back: Protecting Your Paycheck When Your Job Goes Off The Rails

18

The Quiet Quitting Quagmire

19

People Don't Want to Work (for you) Anymore!

20

Charlotte Lockhart and the 4-Day Week

21

Expanding the Compressed Workweek

22

Busy Signals

23

Time For Niksen (not that Nixon)

24

WFH is Dead! Long Live WFH!

25

Resigners' Regrets

26

Calling Out Kardashian

27

Optimal Busyness? Let's Ask An Expert

28

Untangling the Paradox of The Busyness Paradox

29

Billion-Dollar Bonus Beatdown: More Breaking News!

30

Inflation and the Paradoxical Pay Raise

31

Lead People, Manage Things: The Curt Tueffert Interview

32

The Year of Gettin' S**T Done

33

Broken Bones Break Logic In Breaking News

34

When The Boss Burns Out

35

The 15-Hour Workweek

36

Boring Job Burnout

37

Much Ado About WUSI

38

Twice The Work In Half The Hours: The Dual-Career Individual

39

The Paranormal Paradox: Managing the Undead

40

Nixing Busywork With Niksen

41

Fired By Artificial Intelligence (AI)

42

The Efficiency Paradox

43

Take Some Time Off, You Slacker

44

We’ve Got Cox!

45

Perception, deception, or misconception?

46

Shady Statistics and the Status Quo

47

Take This Job and Shove It

48

Couch or Cubicle?

49

Who You Callin' WUSI?

50

Show Crap Jobs Some Love

51

We Put the Cult in Culture

52

Technology and Productivity: An Insider's Perspective

53

Frank & Paul Get Schooled

54

The Four-Day Work Week

55

The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 2)

56

The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 1)

57

BS Jobs

58

Margin of Error: When Good Polling Goes Bad

59

Chasing Productivity & Creativity in WFH

60

MBA: Masters of Busyness Administration?

61

Are You Too Good at Your Job?

62

Busyness and the 40 hour work week

63

Introduction to the Busyness Paradox