28: No Rules Rules
Dima and Slava have read the "No Rules Rules" – a book about Netflix's culture of innovation – and now they discuss how and if it can be used to transplant that culture into another organization.
27: Transparency
Dima and Slava set out to discuss transparency as a potential solution to different challenges, but spend most of the time talking about compensation transparency and its challenges and benefits.
26: Joggling five projects
Dima and Slava sit down to answer questions kindly crafted by ChatGPT and curated by Slava to debug his challenge of managing five projects of different shape and form.
25: Nonviolent Communication
Dima and Slava sit with Anna Krasilnik to talk about the method of nonviolent communication, its applicability to the real-world professional situations, and seemingly sudden popularity of NVC in some circles.
24: Courage To Be Disliked
Dima and Slava read the book "The Courage To Be Disliked" and discuss individual psychology and its premises, debate to apply those to "real" life, and spot some contradictions on guidelines laid out by the authors.
23: Vigilant participation
Dima brings up two topic and together with Slava they discuss how one can help to keep meetings on track as a participant and navigate complexities of working on long-term projects.
22: Joy Of Missing Out
Dima and Slava follow up on the topic in the previous episode and talk about joy of missing out, slowing down, and generally changing the ways we lead our lives.
21: Friends and Friendship
Dima and Slava host Karyna Koreiba and they talk about the ways people become friends, power of small groups, and mock articles that call on us to be open.
20: The Decision Book
In this book club episode Slava falls victim to marketing, but Dima reassures him (and everyone else) that there is a lot to be learned even when you disagree with what you are reading.
19: The To-Don't List
Dima explores an idea of to-don't list for make room for new tasks and responsibilities and Slava challenges this entire concept and thinks of more productive alternatives.
18: Remote Networking
Dima and Slava discuss networking, online and offline, share their experiences and tips, and slightly ridicule an article about remote networking.
17: Resilience and support
Dima and Slava welcome as a guest Viacheslav Rudenko and talk about resilience, what it means to them, and how they are trying to build it as a muscle.
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.