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October 20, 2025

#203 5 Research-Backed Ways to Say No Without Being a Jerk

If your calendar is full of “quick requests” and constant context switching, you’re not alone. In this episode, Peter Green and Richard Lawrence explore...

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October 13, 2025

#202 How to Run a Retrospective That Actually Improves Things (Ep 61 Rebroadcast)

We just passed 200 episodes of The Humanizing Work Show! To celebrate, we’re bringing back one of our most practical episodes—Two Key Moves for...

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October 06, 2025

#201 Scrum vs Kanban – When to Use Each (and Four Ways to Combine Them)

Agile expert Richard Lawrence breaks down the differences between Scrum and Kanban, two of the most widely used approaches for managing work. He explains...

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September 29, 2025

#200 Metrics, Trust, and Escaping the Status Report Trap

When leaders ask for more data, dashboards, and reports, it’s often a signal of low trust. The trouble is, giving them more data doesn’t...

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September 22, 2025

#199 How to Overcome Resistance to a Complexity-First Approach

Leaders may know the value of early learning, but teams may have built up resistance tackling the hardest, most uncertain work first. Instead, they...

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September 15, 2025

#198 Presenting to Leadership? Here's How to Get Great Results

  Most presentations to leaders don’t lead to decisions. They’re overloaded with slides, but they don’t result in action or support. In this episode of...

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