Episode 302 – Mike Rognlien – What Does it Mean to be Truly Fulfilled?

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Mike Rognlien

Mike Rognlien, author of, ‘This Is Now Your Company: A Culture Carrier’s Manifesto’

This week we interview Mike Rognlien. Mike spent most of his career in tech. He worked at Facebook, where he built their first-ever professional and manager development programming. He also partnered with COO Sheryl Sandberg to build Facebook’s Managing Unconscious Bias course. He is an expert facilitator that focuses on leadership, strengths, and talking about the tough stuff.

Mike is the author of, This Is Now Your Company: A Culture Carrier’s Manifesto.

We discuss:

  • What do you have to do to enjoy where you work?
  • Where do you start to go down the right path of ‘enjoying what you do’?
  • How do you think you go about cultivating curiosity?
  • Why did you write your book and what do you hope to change in the world?

Episode 259 – Dr. Richard Wolff – Capitalism is Broken. Here is the Solution.

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Dr. Richard Wolff

Dr. Richard Wolff, author of, ‘Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism’

Our guest this week believes capitalism is broken, and he makes a pretty good argument to support this. He explains how capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither of these outcomes serves the needs of our society.

Our guest this week believes he has the solution – a cure for capitalism.

In this episode, world renowned economist, Dr. Richard Wolff, offers a fair critique of capitalism and advocates for a worker cooperative based economy. This solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers directing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. According to Dr. Wolff, what most people don’t realize is that worker cooperatives are actually larger than conventional businesses, survive at least as long as other businesses, and have more stable employment. Tune in and get your smart people economics fix!

Dr. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Wolff is the author of many books, including his newest, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism. He is also the founder of Democracy at Work, a 501(c)3 organization that conceives, creates, and distributes content aimed at demonstrating why, and how, democratizing the workplace is a feasible solution to a new and better economic system.

Episode 245 – Arun Sundararajan – The Sharing Economy

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Arun Sundararajan

Arun Sundararajan, author of, ‘The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism’

Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples — including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France’s BlaBlaCar, China’s Didi Kuaidi, and India’s Ola, Arun explains the basics of what he’s coined “crowd-based capitalism” — a new way of organizing economic activity that will replace the traditional corporate-centered model.  

As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism shows us how the economy, government regulation, employment, and our social fabric will change. Arun describes the intriguing mix of “gift” and “market” in its transactions, demystifies emerging blockchain technologies, and clearly defines the array of emerging on-demand platforms. Equally important, he puts forth policy choices and proposes possible new directions for self-regulatory organizations, labor law, and funding our social safety net.