HeyJaredThe Mode/Switch
We make sense of the craziness of American work culture. This podcast's intergenerational roundtable helps you do more than cope when work's a lot.
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“Why do we have to leave work to be well?” (opens the original)
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Steve Cuss joins the podcast to talk about emotional regulation on work teams. When your team is sad or exhausted on the clock, you get them off the clock—right? Do they take a vacation? See a therapist? Get a new job? Sometimes they just can't. So Steve Cuss makes a better proposal: let's make it possible for people to be well at work! This week the Mode/Switch team—Ken (Boomer), Craig (Gen X), Josh (Millennial), and Madeline (Gen Z)—works on that question with Steve, author of Managing Leaders
Why There’s So Much “Stupid Work” (opens the original)
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Brigid Schulte joins the podcast roundtable to share her journalistic findings on “stupid work.” She helps managers and their teams tell “a better story about work.” Your communication with a team doesn’t just convey instructions. It does stuff. That’s an insight from communication theory. But it’s also a persistent insight from this week’s podcast conversation with Better Life Lab ’s Brigid Schulte , author of the recent book Over Work , a journalistic investigation of job addiction and its cau
How to spot load-bearing walls on your team (opens the original)
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Hey there! Welcome to this week’s Mode/Switch, helping you do more than cope when work’s a lot. This week, it’s a podcast for mid-level leaders about invisible labor. "You have to shift your depth of field," says Rebecca Johnson in this week's podcast. Our conversation equips managers to look beyond obvious outputs to the hidden (and sometimes heavy) inputs. How are you a stabilizer in your company, keeping things steady in chaotic conditions? How’s it going being your team’s “ glue player ,” ho
The Metaphors We Lead By (opens the original)
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Courtney Ellis joins the Mode/Switch to help managers lead through exhausting change. Listen to learn how your language choices affect your team's trust. (And how to try birding at work!) I have to admit, just seeing a goose puts me in control mode. Hey, who ordered these stupid birds to show up? Also, the shoreline’s covered with poop. This beach needs better management! If you're leading as a manager in the middle of an organization, you know this bind. Your senior leadership’s calling for big
How to Feel at Home in Uncertainty (opens the original)
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Mid-level leaders have something to learn from Odysseus when it comes to coping with ambiguity. Seems like a stretch? Try listening to this week’s conversation between the Mode/Switch team and Dr. Jamie K.A. Smith about being a manager accustomed to ambiguity. His book Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark might not strike you as a business-forward must-read. But our intergenerational conversation—David Wilstermann, Xer; Emily Bosscher, Xennial, and Jake Aupperlee, Gen Z—explored the managerial u
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