Work is central to the human experience. It helps us shape our identities, care for those we love, and contribute to our communities. Work can be a source of power and a catalyst for change. Unfortunately, that's not how most of us experience work—even those who work for themselves. Our labor and creative spirit are used to enrich others and maintain the status quo. It's time for an intervention. What Works is a show about rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy. Host Tara McMullin covers money, management, culture, media, philosophy, and more to figure out what's working (and what's not) today. Tara offers a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to deep-dive analysis of how we work and how work shapes us.

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We Can't Quit Turning Leisure Into More Work 2025-08-21
The Spectacle of Competence 2025-08-14
3 Ways I Make Sense of the Unexpected & Perplexing 2025-08-07
Make It Make Sense 2025-07-31
EP 500: What if you're not off track... and never have been? 2025-07-24
EP 499: Reduction in Force 2025-07-17
INTERLUDE: The Pleasure & Promise of Re-Reading 2025-06-26
EP 498: Breaking The Validation Spiral 2025-06-05
EP 497: Please Support My Work 2025-05-29
EP 496: What to Do When Things Get Messy 2025-05-22
EP 495: Ann Leckie vs. The "Well, Actually" Bros 2025-05-08
EP 494: How Structure Transforms Ideas 2025-05-01
EP 493: The Prescription Economy 2025-04-17
EP 492: How We Realize Higher Values Through Enabling Structures 2025-04-03
EP 491: Meet Your Tiny Capitalists 2025-03-27
EP 490: Standardize Me 2025-03-13
EP 489: Temporal Bandwidth 2025-03-06
EP 488: Honeydew (Or, 3 Biases That Derail Remarkable Projects) 2025-02-27
EP 487: Rethinking Our Tech Mythology 2025-02-20
EP 486: How Knowledge Really Does Become Power 2025-02-13
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