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When you have global talent utilizing artificial intelligence, it’s going to be a Cambrian explosion of new companies, organizations, and ways to work ... One word, freedom. More freedom for everyone to be able to work however they want, whenever they want. ... When you have the infrastructure to say “I’m not going to hire the best person in Austin. I’m going to hire the best person.” ... Someone that can use AI effectively is probably ten times more effective than someone that can’t. - Liam Martin

Really early on I realized all the best people wanted growth. They're like 'Mike, what's the growth plan?' I'm like, what growth plan? I'm cool with it. Why aren't you? And they're like, no Mike, I don't wanna be your only sales person forever. I actually want to grow a team. I was like alright, every year we're gonna grow 30%. That way the best people could say 'Hey, if I kick ass, in three years, I could actually be a manager' - Mike Melen

My tagline is the Infinite Power of Positive. ... We've gotten into a cycle of looking for what's wrong instead of what's right... Thinking positively is not just woo woo, it’s backed by science. - Melinda Stallings

People are the biggest risk to any organization ... Most organizations that struggle with security… it’s because the people at the top don’t care. - Robert Phelps

They won’t change their behavior because you tell them to. They will change their behavior to fit in. So if you give them people to fit in with and you give them a prescriptive way to fit in, they’ll do it. They will absolutely do it. Especially if their executives are saying, this is our expectation. This is the behavior we want. - Karrie Sullivan

I never get stuck anymore. Because I can just pick up the phone and start talking to my thinking buddy and say, this challenge we have, I don't know what to do with it. Can we just talk about it for a while? - Henrik Jarleskog

The roundabout. They're more efficient, more effective, safer. And yet they also require more of the driver. In a typical stoplight you get to just wait to be told what to do just like in a typical company. And yet it works better when people retain more responsibility for leadership. You have to in a roundabout. And yet a lot of our companies look more like stoplights. - Brian Robertson

I always talk about connecting the culture to the revenue - Mindy Honcoop

Not only are you going to have a lower cost of living, but that that's going to open up a higher quality of life which just makes you a better and more complete human being as a whole. People get more time back and they get more money. They are able to do things that they may not be able to do in other cities. Like open businesses, get involved in boards, contribute to the community. And we really see that coming to life in awesome ways with Tulsa Remote. - Justin Harlan

I realized I really love traveling. I really love meeting people from different cultures. And I wanted to structure my life in a way that lets me do that. I wanted to give other people the opportunity to do that. So I thought I could build a great company, I could give people the opportunity to have flexibility back with their lives. - Zach Boyette

I coined the phrase vibe officing because I think we’re at this moment where technology should be able to help us be more flowy through the built environment, to seek things that we need for ourselves. or to be with others and maybe we go to our own office, maybe we go to some kind of third place, maybe one day we’re taking autonomous vehicles because I see Waymo’s driving around right outside. - Phil Kirschner

So many things have changed at the same time, which you know so much about in terms of AI and how this tech driven world and operations is changing how we work, not the other way around. - Sophie Wade

So that's the four levels of this. The learning culture, team orientation, outcomes, orientation and what's your talent strategy. - Brian Elliott

We teach how to build exposure and influence across distance. I used to frame it around the humans that we need exposure to and to influence. But now with AI, we need to think about how we build our exposure to the AI tools that our companies are using to catalog our skills... AI determining skill set on your behalf, you might be getting left out of opportunities. - Sacha Connor

Let's first acknowledge that there's all sorts of people, great thought leaders, really the best experts on a remote work are here physically in one location. So there's clearly value in being together and spending quality time face to face. - Ryan Anderson

I was surprised by, how quickly people really got on board. People really understood and they really wanted this. They needed this resource. And so they bought in and they supported it, and they put their information in it. And they started using the search tool. It was kind of glorious. - “JJ” Jessica Reeder

One of the biggest issues that he would see is that these leadership teams were never leadership teams. They were a group of leaders. - Mark Cruth

I have a belief that learning velocity, the ability to take it inside, apply it, course correct and redeploy something different, a different product or a different service. That is a positive differentiator. If you learn one degree faster than your competition, I think you can win. Open your eyes, open your ears, open your senses. What can you learn and how can you apply it? - Dominic Price

"Our commitment to be the most reliable partner to our customers, to Atlassian and to each other. So if we're reliable, we don't always have to be right. But we always want to be present. We always want to be available." - Peter Marquez

'It’s one of the things I like about science. The whole idea is that we're always wrong, but we're learning. So we're getting we're getting closer. We’re evolving. We’re leaning, we’re getting closer. None of it holds forever. It never does. We always learn new things. - Molly Sands

'I think some of it is leader driven as well. If the leader just starts sharing an update, other people will do the same. It's the way that work happens in the modern world. - Andrew Boyagi

"It used to be that 3D was a deliverable. Give me some beautiful pictures rendered of what my place would look like. But now it's how we collaborate all the way through ... It used to be when you go into a meeting, you had everybody staring down at the drawings in front of them. But now we all look together at the virtual reality" - Charles Corley

"AI with its great promise, offers two different potential outcomes for us when we think about the employee life." Connie Noonan Hadley

Lean into it. This is not going away. You have to lean into it because it's going to change your life whether you like it or not. - Chet Kapoor

For the first time since the pandemic, it feels like we're in a more normal market, in a more normal environment, much more stable. That was a huge sentiment shift. - Julie Whelan

Moodsonic is all about using the power of sound for good ... That shared audio space, because it's such a hard problem. That's our niche that we're focused on. - Evan Benway

We make global hiring as easy as local hiring ... So people can stay in their home countries, access these amazing job opportunities that the world can offer. - Tony Jamous

Technology adoption, especially around AI, the things that are going to drive success in it, are exactly the same things that drive success in flexible work adoption. - Brian Elliott

We are going to be continuously working across distance nationally, internationally, globally, and we need to get more comfortable with that. - Sacha Connor

I decided that was going to be my North Star, that freedom and flexibility were going to be a part of my career. And I was going to prioritize that over all else. - Chase Warrington

What is the magic trick I can use to get people’s minds off the narrow route they’ve been traveling down for the last 100 years, and think about different ways of getting the same stuff done with less energy use, with less air pollution, or less global warming. - Jack Nilles

Jacques Derrida said there is no culture without a culture of hospitality, it is who we are as humans, it sets the tone for everything else. You could argue that everything should be based on hospitality, especially in the workplace - Michelle Ossmann

The challenge of unlearning today is what are the things that worked for me as a leader in 2018 in that example that were great in 2018, and I should celebrate them and then have a wake for them because the environment in 2024 is different and they're irrelevant. - Dominic Price

So that's where the empathy is, it's about what is going to help each one of us be most effective and then really supporting that. And that includes helping you be self-aware about what works for you. - Sophie Wade

There is a blind spot between what leaders are asking people to do and what people are actually doing - Nellie Hayat

The biggest reason for hybrid ... when I talk to execs, the bottom line is really recruitment and retention - Nick Bloom

Companies often pay a premium for additional agility, the ability to pivot when things get tough. Radious allows that agility, flex up or down based on requirements for office or meeting space - Amina Moreau

'Well, how do we figure out which companies are hybrid and in what capacity?' Funny enough, not only did we not know the answer to that question, but we figured out that few people knew the answer to that question. That data just wasn't available, and it was important to a lot of different people. - Rob Sadow

The icing on the cake: Employees who say that the teams that they work on have very clearly established norms for not just where and when, but how the work is done ... are almost three and a half times more likely to agree that your work culture is positive. Phil Kirschner

The biggest difference from last year is that organizations are making some decisions, is that there is absolutely a parting of the seas happening.

The data show that people who have flexibility in where and when they work are actually more connected to their teams than those that are five days a week in the office. It says, I trust you. And nothing builds connection like trust in the first place.

You're able to consume that information understand where somebody else might be coming from, and then you can incorporate that into your own thinking, which to me is one of the most powerful aspects of LinkedIn, is just having that access to those new ideas - Andreas Hoffbauer

It's episode 13 and I'm a little bit superstitious, not super superstitious. I do knock on wood now and then, and I never mention lack of traffic until I reach my destination, but I'm never quite sure how superstitious the guest might be. So for episode 13, we're just going to go solo. - Jeff Frick

In the federal government, it's been a mandate since 2000 that every federal worker is supposed to work from home to the maximum extent possible. It's for continuity of operations in case, say, a pandemic hit and people weren't able to go to work. - Kate Lister

If you hold the long term view, that you believe the capital market side of the business will actually catch up and start to value these shorter term cash flows in the way that they should - Dave Cairns

I'm a coach. I'm a parent, I do know how to take lessons from those places and apply them in other avenues and other venues … There is zero gating on deciding to learn something new. - Forget permission, just start doing the things you intend to do

I just feel like there's been a group of us who have been kind of really reticent and scared of the change when we actually should be super excited about this is growing our future and our scope and the amount of influence that we can have in a company like we now have a seat at the table for how people work moving forward. - Tracy Hawkins

As an experienced analyst, and host of her own Hybrid Work podcast, I was excited to welcome this force multiplying guest, Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research to Work 20XX.

Adrienne’s college summer internship sweeping the streets of Disney World turned into a 20+ year career where she developed many of the foundational values that continue to surface today, starting with the connected threesome of the customer, the product or experience, and the employee. Purposeful attention to detail centered on the customer’s experience defines the perception of the company in the customer’s mind.

What happens when the increasing demands for flexibility and agility collide with what has historically be a pretty static, inflexible asset, the office? You might be surprised at the magic available beyond the cubicle and traditional floor plan.

Bad meetings are the bane of the modern working world. The back-to-back, uninterrupted energy crushers have only gotten worse over the last two years. Shani Harmon, Co-Founder & CEO of 'Stop Meeting Like This' shows us the path to a better way.

In Episode 4, we dive into the art of the one-on-one, with a master of the art, PayPal’s Chief Audit Executive Dave Montez. Dave shares his method for building a trusting culture across an globally distributes 80+ person team by over-indexing on one-on-ones, in a way I’v never heard before.

In this episode, we explore the world of Design, Real Estate, and Facilities through the eyes of long-time industry veteran Ryan Anderson, Vice President, Global Research & Insights, MillerKnoll. No surprise, these professionals are moving from cost center/efficiency thinking to a more human-centric, and ‘seat-at-the-table’, rethinking their resources.

In this far-ranging conversation, Meg shares her take on the factors behind the great resignation, what hybrid really means, and the fact that organizations need to get better at responding to change.

To kick off the show, who better to have on than the undisputed expert on distributed teams, Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab.