We Not Me
Exploring how humans connect and get stuff done together, with Dan Hammond and Pia Lee from Squadify.We need groups of humans to help navigate the world of opportunities and challenges, but we don't always work together effectively.
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88% of change fails. How to be in the 12%, Part 1 (opens the original)
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We Not Me turns 150 episodes old this month, and Dan Hammond and Pia Lee are using the milestone to talk about something every leader running a transformation is quietly grappling with: why 88% of organisational transformations fail — up from 70% not long ago. Prompted by a Forbes article on the subject, they dig into why "transformation" so often becomes corporate shorthand for restructuring, downsizing, or otherwise firing people, and why that confusion poisons trust before the real work even
Leading a team to create a community (opens the original)
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Max Crane runs La Stazione, the café in the Yorkshire Moors he bought last year from the mentor who gave him his start as a teenager. On the surface this is a conversation about coffee and community, but the real subject is what happens when a leader refuses to over-engineer culture: Max builds an entire team ethos around twenty-second interactions, hiring for character over CV, and treating mistakes as inevitable rather than dangerous. The shift in the conversation comes when Max admits he can'
Leading in a complex stakeholder environment (opens the original)
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In this fascinating episode of We Not Me , Dan and Pia step into a leadership world that many listeners may know little about: the US public school system. Their guests, Dr. Kristen Weikle, Superintendent of McLean County Unit 5 in Illinois, and Denise Pontrelli, former superintendent and executive coach, reveal the extraordinary complexity of leading educational systems that serve thousands of students, families and community members. With responsibility for nearly 13,000 students across 24 sch
Regulating your team's nervous system, with Dana Hargus (opens the original)
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Dana Hargis is a mental health counsellor of 25 years and co-founder of Restore of Ada, a practice built around one idea: reset the nervous system and you change the quality of a person's life. Dan and Pia bring her on to unpack why so many workplace problems — burnout, conflict, broken teams, leaders who can't be reasoned with in a crisis — trace back not to bad character or bad strategy, but to a dysregulated nervous system that never learned to calm itself down. What shifts the conversation i
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