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People Managing People
by David Rice · English
The People Managing People podcast equips forward-thinking leaders to thrive in the AI era—reshaping teams, systems, and strategy without losing what makes work human. Hosted by David Rice, each episode brings real-world insights from innovators, executives, and people leaders on topics like AI in practice, people-first leadership, performance systems, and workplace culture.
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Why Human Oversight Isn’t Enough to Keep AI in Check
Why “human oversight” and governance slogans aren’t enough for AI decision-making; the real risk is missing “context” in socio-technical systems.
10 Nov 2026 · 52m · 19 chaptersHow to Manage People Based on Who They Are, Not Just What They Do
Why self-knowledge from personality/talent assessments often doesn’t change behavior, and how “behavioral intelligence” can help managers treat people as individuals—improving fairness, team…
3 Nov 2026 · 39m · 16 chaptersWhy Improving Productivity Starts With Understanding The Work
Leaders misunderstand work because they rely on org charts and process docs, while real workflows are the sum of handoffs, workarounds, and informal rerouting (“tribal knowledge”).
28 Oct 2026 · 29m · 9 chaptersShould We Still Build Careers Around Deep Specialization?
How AI changes career value from deep domain specialization toward fewer specialists, more cross-domain generalists, and especially “taste” (judgment about what good looks like).
20 Oct 2026 · 36m · 15 chapters
The Human-AI Handoff Is More Complicated Than Companies Think
The episode argues that enterprise AI strategy should start with human-AI collaboration, not automation.
13 Oct 2026 · 40m · 26 chapters
How Do You Prove AI ROI When The Return Is Only 1%?
How to prove AI agent ROI when returns are small (often ~1%), and how to deploy agents in production without harming early-career hiring or adoption.
6 Oct 2026 · 25m · 9 chapters
Is AI Making Your Employees Worse At Thinking?
This People Managing People episode argues that many organizations deploy generative AI in ways that reduce employees’ critical thinking and create “cognitive debt.” Dr.
29 Sep 2026 · 25m · 9 chapters
Are Leaders Trading Future Capability For Short-Term AI Efficiency?
Whether leaders are sacrificing long-term workforce capability for short-term AI efficiency, and what HR leaders must do to prevent “entry-level erosion” and failed AI initiatives.
22 Sep 2026 · 36m · 15 chapters
How Do You Automate Recognition Without Making It Feel Automated?
Motivocity’s “appreciation intelligence” on automating recognition and HR communications without making them feel automated, by reducing admin/reporting friction and enabling proactive, human-led…
17 Sep 2026 · 22m · 12 chapters
What Happens When Employees Stop Speaking Up
The “silence tax”: when employees don’t speak up, organizations lose ideas, problem-solving, and market intelligence, leading to missed innovation and market share.
15 Sep 2026 · 42m · 16 chapters
Why AI Transformation Starts With Organizational Clarity
AI transformation ROI depends less on the technology and more on organizational clarity (purpose, excellence requirements), psychological safety, trust, and a structured culture of experimentation.
8 Sep 2026 · 35m · 15 chapters
How to Turn Employee Engagement Into a Business Case
How to build a CFO/C-suite business case for employee engagement by reframing disengagement as a measurable “tax,” and by treating culture as the foundation for AI-driven productivity.
1 Sep 2026 · 40m · 25 chapters
HR Has the Skills to Lead the AI Era—But Will It?
HR’s role in AI transformation—whether AI will be used to maximize efficiency by “techno-optimists” or to redesign work around human fulfillment, autonomy, creativity, and meaningful impact.
25 Aug 2026 · 59m · 29 chapters
What AI Surveillance Can’t Tell You About Your Employees
The episode argues that AI workplace monitoring often shifts from legitimate measurement to intrusive surveillance, because it assumes everything important about work is measurable.
18 Aug 2026 · 50m · 15 chapters
Why The EU Pay Transparency Directive Is More Than A Compliance Exercise
The EU Pay Transparency Directive (PTD) as an operating model overhaul, not a compliance checkbox—requiring equal-pay-focused reporting, job categorization of “equal value,” employee rights,…
11 Aug 2026 · 33m · 12 chapters
Why AI Isn’t Delivering The Productivity Gains We Expected
Why AI investments aren’t translating into productivity gains, driven by adoption gaps, fragmented systems, and missing in-the-flow context—not by model quality.
4 Aug 2026 · 26m · 9 chapters
The New Leadership Test: What Makes Someone AI-Native?
How executive “AI-native” differs from merely “AI-enabled,” and how executive credibility (especially for CHROs and talent teams) is shifting from vision/strategy to demonstrated deployments and ROI.
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