This podcast is about all things work-related; we offer advice and/or perspective on jobs, work and management. Depending on the episode, my co-host and I may choose a particular topic or theme, and then focus on it in some detail. But for others—what we refer to as our "Jam sessions"—things are a bit more candid and free-flowing. As for who the two of us are? Well, let’s just say that’s not nearly as important as what we are NOT. We’re not managers, we're not CEOs (nor have we ever been ), ...
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How To Recognize True Path in Religion and what is prophethood and subordinate prophet and other topics.
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How to recognize the true path in religion? Jihad is not the killing of innocents. What is the Ahmadiyya position on Jihad in Urdu language. دین میں صراط مستقیم کو کیسے پہچانا جائے؟ دین میں سچے راستے کو کیسے پہچانا جائے اور نبوت اور ماتحت نبی کیا ہے اور دیگر موضوعات۔۔ اردو زبان میں احمدیہ موقف کیا ہے۔مقرر عارف سعید
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In this, the final episode of Season 1, my cohost and I look back on the show, defend our decision to remain anonymous, discuss “loerarchy” in greater depth (again), and hint at what’s to come in Season 2...Oleh the subordinate
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Most of us have experienced it at some point in our careers: the "honeymoon." That first 6 months or so of relative bliss at any new job. So how might it contribute to our eventual disillusionment with our own managers, and/or the workplace more generally..?Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode, my co-host and I again express sympathy for managers—especially frontline managers. We also discuss why managers are often threatened by employees who excel, how management by loerarchy resolves the “advisor-evaluator” paradox (the topic of the previous episode), and why in a hierarchy, you only need to fool one person some of the …
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Ep12: The Advisor-Evaluator Paradox
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Subtitled “Sympathy for the manager,” in this episode my co-host and I discuss the absolute impossibility of being both an advisor to, and evaluator of, your employees. And yet all managers are tasked with, and expected to execute on these inherently paradoxical responsibilities...Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode, my co-host and I engage in another candid discussion about all things work-related. We offer a few additional thoughts on the concept of “team”, agree that you get what you reward, and imagine what it might mean to tie employee compensation to organizational performance...Oleh the subordinate
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Have you always thought that teamwork and a sense of team are critical to the success of any for-profit business? In this episode, my co-host and I argue that neither of these concepts are as important as you might think...Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode, my co-host and I discuss all things work-related in another free-flowing jam session. Topics include the differences between the for-profit enterprise and other types of organizations , why management by loerarchy is an “11”, and Adam Smith and the division of labor...Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode, my co-host and I again discuss a variety of work-related subjects (and “loerarchy”) in another free-flowing and candid "jam session." This includes the difficulties involved overturning deeply entrenched ideas about capitalism, the nature of self-interest, and the mentality that the “customer is always right” vs. “let the buyer bew…
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Ep7: Your employees are your boss
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In a previous episode, my co-host and I argued that managers are more effective—and their organizations are more profitable—when they behave as if their employees are in charge of them, not the other way around. In this episode week, we explain why that works: Your employees actually are in charge...…
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In this episode, my co-host and I engage in another free-flowing discussion about “loerarchy” and all things work-related: Why good managers don’t always thrive—and are sometimes punished—for doing their job well, and why doing what you need to do to get ahead may involve ignoring your own humanity...…
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Ep5: The one thing you think you know about managing is wrong
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As a manager, you probably think you’re “the boss,” right? Well, in this week’s episode, my co-host and I explain why good management is actually the other way around. It involves thinking, functioning, and behaving as if your employees are in charge of you...Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode, my co-host and I engage in another free-flowing discussion about “loerarchy” and all things work-related – including the difference between a descriptive versus a prescriptive theory, and whether or not sun revolves around the earth...Oleh the subordinate
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Ep3: Debunking the "cog theory" of managing
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In this episode, my co-host and I talk why people aren’t “cogs” - and why if you're a manager, and you decide to treat your employees like they are, that’s precisely what you'll get...Oleh the subordinate
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In this episode—the first of our more free-flowing “Jam Sessions”—my co-host and I talk about last week’s episode, good management, and what I refer to as “management by loerarchy”...Oleh the subordinate
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Ep1: Throw out that management advice book
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In this first episode of season one of "the subordinate is IN", my co-host and I take a critical look at the so-called "advice" offered by mainstream management advice books, and why they may not be worth the time spent reading one...Oleh the subordinate
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As an introduction to this first season, a little about what the show is, and what I and my cohost are not...Oleh the subordinate
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Allah alone is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs .
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