HeyJaredDustin's Kaleidoscope
Dustin’s Kaleidoscope is a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with leaders, innovators, and changemakers across various fields. Hosted by award-winning producer Dustin Dumas, each episode explores the unique journeys, challenges, and successes of extraordinary individuals.
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Utilization Is Not Development - How to Get Unstuck (opens the original)
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You can be excellent at your job. Trusted. Handed more and more responsibility. Told, sincerely, that you're valuable. And still, your career doesn't move. In this episode of Dustin's Kaleidoscope, host Dustin Dumas breaks down the difference between two things people routinely confuse: being utilized and being developed. Organizations are consistently good at recognizing what you already do well. They are far less consistent about investing in what you could become capable of doing next — and t
You Can’t Just Leave: Navigating Difficult People When Walking Away Isn’t An Option (opens the original)
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Most advice about dealing with a difficult person at work starts with two words: "just leave." But what happens when that's not an option — when the difficult person is your manager, or someone with influence over your work, or someone who controls the information and resources you depend on? In this episode, Dustin breaks down the workplace control tactics that get mistaken for diligence: unnecessary oversight, manufactured dependency, narrative control, and the retaliation that hides behind "p
The Invisible Sabotage: How Timing Becomes a Weapon Inside Organizations (opens the original)
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Most leaders have experienced it, the late deliverable, the rescheduled meeting, the missing input that shows up just past the point of being useful. They diagnose it as a communication problem. They send clearer emails. They follow up more. Nothing changes. In this episode, Dustin Dumas names what's actually happening: punitive withholding. It is a form of organizational control that operates almost entirely through timing and access restriction. Drawing on two high-stakes examples from her own
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