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Caleb and Adriele go through the week’s news including election updates, upcoming Supreme Court hearings, Apple and Google’s potential AI partnership, Walmart’s strategy to teach compassion to store managers, and what it means that offices could soon spy on your stress levels. Then, they go deep on the potential TikTok ban, including why lawmakers seem so eager to pass the ban, what backlash they...

Caleb and Adriele unpack President Biden’s State of the Union address, Trump’s courting of Elon Musk, and the House Republicans’ effort to ban TikTok. Next, they look at the week in business news including how some major corporations are trying to take down the National Labor Relations Board, some new data on who’s  really  working from home, and how AI is likely to increase energy usage and accel...

Caleb and Adriele take a lap around the week’s biggest stories, including the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s ballot eligibility, radio hosts targeting Black voters with faked AI images, Wendy’s surge pricing strategy, the Kellogg’s CEO’s “Let them eat Flakes” moment, and Apple’s huge fine from the EU and what it says that foreign countries are regulating American businesses better than Americ...

Caleb and Adriele are joined by John Graham, Jr., humanity practitioner and culture transformation consultant whose work centers on improving the lived experiences of marginalized employee populations. They talk about Black History Month and John’s vision for the state of the Black experience in the workplace. [29:40] Before that, Caleb and Adriele work through several news stories from the week,...

Caleb and Adriele are joined by Pamela Slim, award winning author, and a small business and licensing IP expert who has spent three decades helping people scale their business. They chat about community work that she's doing with BIPOC entrepreneurs and how to be “architect of liberatory change.” [25:41] But first, they dig into the outcome of Trump’s New York civil fraud trial, a new suit bro...

Caleb and Adriele break down the boring-til-it-wasn’t Super Bowl including a rash of ho-hum ads, a puzzling decision from Uber Eats, and, most importantly, Beyoncé. They look at a wild week in politics, including a decision in Trump’s immunity case, Republicans justifying his remarks threatening to incite Russia to attack America’s NATO allies, and a Special Counsel statement with which Biden took...

Caleb and Adriele look at this week’s big stories, including Nikki Haley continuing a seemingly doomed campaign, and news that hundreds of thousands of new jobs are being created — while mass layoffs continue. Also, grocery store inflation is stubbornly not coming down. Plus, who is to blame for Target selling factually incorrect merchandise featuring Civil Rights icons? Next, Adriele goes deep on...

Caleb and Adriele go through the week’s news including Nikki Haley’s ongoing campaign and the $83.3 million decision against Trump. They also look at evidence that consumer spending is fueling better than expected economic growth before jumping into Taylor Swift deepfakes and the FTC launching inquiries into AI deals by tech giants, plus a Cloudflare controversy involving the CEO’s response to a r...

Caleb and Adriele go through the week in politics, and discuss the real possibility of a second Trump administration. They also discuss the state of the economy, including the stock market’s all-time high and a study that showed half of recent U.S. inflation being due to high corporate profits. Stanley Cups are also mentioned, begrudgingly. Next, they unpack the ongoing layoffs at Google, WayFair,...

To celebrate our upcoming 50th episode, we chose our three favorite deep dives from our first year. First up from episode 31 in September, why “feedback” has become so scary, and why “feedforward” is a counterproductive term. [1:03] Next, from episode 14 in May, what it means to create psychological safety in your workplace—especially for Black women, many of whom are bringing workplace trauma wit...

Caleb and Adriele are joined by special guest, Dr. Robert Sutton, an organizational psychologist and professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford. They talk about bureaucracy, the frustrations of middle managers, his new book with Stanford colleague Huggy Rao, *The Friction Project,* which explores how “smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.” [21:54]...

Caleb and Adriele kick off 2024 by unpacking The New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft, Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, and new data on return to work and other economic news. Then, they do a deep dive into the impact of hiding some aspect of one’s identity at the workplace, also known as “covering.” [24:07] Then they work through NPR’s internet predictions for 2024, including in...

Caleb and Adriele close out the year by reflecting on 2023 and sharing their thoughts on the upcoming year with six predictions about 2024, including predictions about AI [5:48], social media [15:05], worker empowerment [24:26], the future of DEI and ESG [31:03], the economy [38:20], and politics [43:05]. They also discuss their own futures, the importance of setting goals and taking agency over t...

Adriele is joined by guest host Dr. Janice Gassam Asare, founder of BWG Business Solutions, an award-winning DEI consultancy designed to help organizations create cultures built on equity, and a contributing writer for Forbes magazine. Together, they reflect on the transformations and changes in the DEI space in 2023 and their hopes and expectations for 2024. They touch on news from the week inclu...

Caleb and Adriele go through the week’s news, focusing on the economy, the college presidents who went in front of Congress to talk about free speech on campus, a startling abortion decision coming out of Texas, Google losing an antitrust case to Epic, Google’s Gemini demo, and labor news featuring very different union talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks. Next, they dive into practical ways...

Caleb and Adriele share good news and bad news about the economy and how it’s affecting everyday people, and then get into the week in AI news, including shocking energy use reports and bewildering statements from important players. Then, they go deep on data about happiness globally and the state of the “vibecession” economy. Caleb offers some solutions for moving forward, and recognizing how hap...

Caleb and Adriele celebrate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire before catching up on the latest in the OpenAI debacle—including what the board shake-up meant for diversity in AI leadership. Plus, good news on the economy, new return to work data, and an answer to the question, “What is a restaurant?” Then they go deep on AI and tech governance in light of the capitalists winning the fight over the directi...

Caleb and Adriele celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday by focusing on positive trends from the past year, but not before diving into the ongoing Sam Altman Open AI saga, X advertisers bailing after Elon Musk openly supported antisemitism, Meta’s advertising policy allowing claims that the 2020 election was rigged, and a Muslim runner who says she was cut from a Lululemon campaign over her religious...

Caleb and Adriele check in on strike news from Hollywood and Starbucks, Open AI’s dev conference, and how the Israel-Hamas war is creeping into our corporate environments. Then, they go deep on the Right to Repair movement that has haunted Apple, and how it is already bleeding into automotives and other industries. [25:19] Next, Adriele leads a conversation about psychological safety in the workpl...

Caleb is joined by guest host Dr. Danielle Tomson to go deep on the state of American politics. They talk about where we are a year out from the election, including some bad news for the Biden campaign from a New York Times poll, the latest Republican debate, and the geopolitics and state of the Israel-Hamas war and how it’s causing an upheaval in both the presidential campaign but also in the boa...

Caleb and Adriele tackle several big stories from the past two weeks, including states suing Meta over child safety, retailers using crime to justify closing underperforming stores, the EV market bubble, new data on the investor backlash against ESG, and AI news from the White House to the Global UK Summit. Then, they go deep into potentially troubling research that says content creators are surgi...

Caleb and Adriele answer another round of listener-submitted questions. Why do people expect every company and person to take one side or another? [1:57] How can we mitigate the negative effects of the internet on employees? [19:55] How can non-union workers get corporations to align to their needs? [24:58] Plus, what podcasts, newsletters and other media do they pay attention to and what’s the be...

After unpacking the latest news from Israel and Gaza, Caleb and Adriele check in on several ongoing stories including Jim Jordan’s failing bid to become the new House speaker, Elon’s latest plans to make X financially viable, and another round of return-to-office announcements. Then, they go deep on corporate responses to global crises, and which companies are obligated to speak up and when. Next,...

Caleb and Adriele reflect on a difficult week of news out of Israel and Palestine—including how leaders should or shouldn’t be responding—before diving into proposed AI-generated content watermarks, the latest in politics and strike news, and CEOs predicting we’ll be back in the office five days a week by 2026. (Good luck with that.) Then they return to the war in Israel as a case study to talk ab...

Caleb and Adriele work through a host of news stories, none bigger than the end of Kevin McCarthy’s short tenure as Speaker of the House. They also get into news about the economy, AI (Tom Hanks! Oh my!), Meta’s ad-free option, the UAW and Kaiser strikes, and Fast Company’s series on out of control CEO pay. Then, they have a wide-ranging conversation with author, speaker, and “Tech Humanist” Kate...