16: Culture Map
Dima and Slava have read "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer and discuss what they think of and how they to dimensions of communication offered by the book.
15: Team Jargon
Dima and Slava talk about effective communication in teams, how bad jargon really is, and what to do with acronyms. PSA: this episode contains a lot of TLAs.
14: Building Corporate Culture
Dima and Slava discuss corporate culture, debate if it can be built, and, if so what are the challenges and the tools can help.
13: Automating The State
Dima and Slava talk to Vasyl, once CEO of ProZorro, about automation of the government and government services, dynamics of state-owned enterprises and getting back to "regular" business.
12: Hyperfocus
Dima and Slava read the "Hyperfocus" by Chris Bailey and discuss the ideas and lessons they drew from the book.
11: Tactical planning
Dima brings up the challenges of tactical planning, Slava introduces the concept of "digital travel time" and both of them try to apply the GTD 2-minute rule to examples from an article.
10: Workplace learning
Slava came across a peculiar workplace learning trends report and together with Dima they dissect the elusive trends highlighted there and discuss possible motivations and challenges of producing reports on industry landscape.
9: Themes. 2023 Edition
Dima and Slava discuss their yearly themes for 2023 and how they plan to go about working on them.
8: How we learn
Slava and Dima welcome Yulia Kudina and together they try to figure out what learning is, how they do that, and unexpected things they learned recently.
7: Tell To Win
Dima and Slava talk about book "Tell to Win" by Peter Guber and tell their own stories about the role storytelling plays in their lives.
6: Decision Making
Dima and Slava discuss "structured decision making" and challenges and pitfalls of decision making processes often employed in business setting.
5: Sense of Fulfillment
Dima and Slava look for fulfillment in work and discuss how our approaches for setting goals may be preventing us from feeling happy.
4: Coaching, mentorship, and consulting
Dima and Slava sit with Andrii Suslenko, a journalist and a business-coach, to talk about coaching, mentorship, consulting, and differences and overlaps between those.
3: Pitch Anything
Dima and Slava read and discuss book "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff and evaluate ideas of frame control, dominance, and eradicating neediness against their own experience.
2: Experts and Expertise
Dima is concerned with the fate of expertise and how easy experts have it now, and together with Slava they look experts in the workplace and how they mess up code reviews.
1: Planning
Slava wonders one can learn to plan for longer term and together with Dima they discuss different approaches to planning and when and why they are effective.