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Culture Talks, hosted by Lorne Rubis, dives into the world of emerging companies that are passionately dedicated not merely to chasing success, but to making a lasting impact.
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Culture Talks - Win-at-All-Costs Leadership: Why "Everything's Green" Reports Are Lying to You (opens the original)
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A viral Hyrox moment becomes an uncomfortably accurate metaphor for leaders who chase wins and leave everyone else to clean up the mess. Lorne Rubis and David McCauley dig into what "winning" is really costing people, give FanDuel a brutal Culture Pizza Review over AI-driven predatory marketing, and unpack why so many organizations report "all green" while the actual experience — for citizens, customers, employees — is anything but. 00:00 Intro & the last day of summer 03:33 The Hyrox story & th
Culture Talks - Judgment Is the New Edge: AI, Curation & Connection (opens the original)
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AI can generate the ideas. Humans still have to choose the right one. Lorne Rubis and David McCauley talk judgment as the last real skill, why "using AI hard" should mean more human connection - not less - and a few Fenway Park stories along the way. 00:00 Fenway Park trip & Red Sox culture 07:52 Culture Pizza Review: rating the Red Sox 13:56 Middle management burnout — curators of time, not more meetings 23:04 Adam Grant: why judgment is becoming the most valuable skill 28:41 Why "Connect Befor
Culture Talks: Kind vs. Nice: What "The Bear" Teaches About Leadership + The Real 2026 Workplace Anxiety Data (opens the original)
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On this episode of Culture Talks, Lorne Rubis and Dave McCauley explore why doing hard things builds capability that comfort never can — and unpack a critical distinction for leaders: the difference between being nice and being kind. Niceness protects your own comfort. Kindness means having the harder conversation because you actually care about someone's growth. They apply the lesson to FX's "The Bear," breaking down how a Michelin-star-chasing kitchen full of friction and dysfunction still hol
Culture Talks: Ted Lasso's Leadership Secret & Why Employee Surveillance Software Is Killing Trust (opens the original)
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On this episode of Culture Talks, Lorne Rubis and Dave McCauley break down what Ted Lasso gets right about leadership - and it's not soccer strategy. Then the conversation shifts hard into employee surveillance software — mouse-jiggling detection, Slack activity monitoring, and the arms race between employees and the tools built to watch them. The episode wraps with something bigger. Topics covered: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Ted Lasso as a leadership case study 06:00 How Lasso identified and won over ke
Culture Talks: Should Your AI Agent Do Your Performance Review? Plus: The "Check Engine Light" Leadership Framework (opens the original)
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On this episode of Culture Talks, Lorne Rubis and Dave McCauley tackle a question more leaders are quietly facing: should AI agents handle performance reviews, difficult conversations, or even personal messages on your behalf? Dave makes the case that outsourcing hard conversations to AI is "a chicken-shit way to distance yourself from delivering bad information," while Lorne shares his own experiment. The conversation then shifts to organizational change. Lorne breaks down the concept of "organ
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