Work 2026: AI Adoption, Curiosity, Continuous Learning | Work 20XX Ep56

Frankly, I’m not covering return to office and hybrid work and that whole discussion any more. We’ve done 50 episodes of Work 20XX and I think hopefully we’ve moved the discussion beyond that. - Jeff Frick

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