Your Work Friends | Fresh Insights on the Now and Next of Work
Mel Plett & Francesca Ranieri
92 episodes
3 days ago
Send us a text Smart people don’t automatically make a smart team. In this episode of Your Work Friends, we talk with Dr. Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the world’s leading researchers on collective intelligence, about what actually drives team performance—and what most leaders get wrong. Anita breaks down why high-performing teams aren’t about talent density, charisma, or motivation, but about coordination, goal clarity, and participation—most of which is d...
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Send us a text Smart people don’t automatically make a smart team. In this episode of Your Work Friends, we talk with Dr. Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the world’s leading researchers on collective intelligence, about what actually drives team performance—and what most leaders get wrong. Anita breaks down why high-performing teams aren’t about talent density, charisma, or motivation, but about coordination, goal clarity, and participation—most of which is d...
Code Red: Zapier's Approach to Move from AI Fear to AI Integration w/ Zapier's Brandon Sammut
Your Work Friends | Fresh Insights on the Now and Next of Work
48 minutes
1 month ago
Code Red: Zapier's Approach to Move from AI Fear to AI Integration w/ Zapier's Brandon Sammut
Send us a text “With AI you can delegate a bunch of the work, but you cannot delegate the accountability.” This week on Your Work Friends, we sit down with Zapier’s Chief People & AI Transformation Officer Brandon Sammut to break down how Zapier hit 97% AI adoption without traditional L&D, why they declared an internal “Code Red,” and how culture—not tools—is the real engine of AI transformation. We get into Zapier’s AI fluency rubric for new hires, their “clear the lane” discipline t...
Your Work Friends | Fresh Insights on the Now and Next of Work
Send us a text Smart people don’t automatically make a smart team. In this episode of Your Work Friends, we talk with Dr. Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the world’s leading researchers on collective intelligence, about what actually drives team performance—and what most leaders get wrong. Anita breaks down why high-performing teams aren’t about talent density, charisma, or motivation, but about coordination, goal clarity, and participation—most of which is d...
