Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan

A good job is not the same for everyone.

Laura Gassner Otting gives us four dials for working out whether a role actually fits: calling, connection, contribution and control.

Calling is the force that pulls you forward. Connection is whether your work matters. Contribution is what the work gives your life. Control is the agency you have over your time, decisions and environment.

The practical question is not whether all four are high. It is whether the mix matches what matters to you now.

Laura is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher and former executive recruiter. She is the author of *Limitless* and *Wonderhell*.

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The loudest predictions about AI count the jobs it might destroy. Russell Beck says that is the wrong unit of analysis.

Technology is very good at removing the scarce skill inside a job. Russell's example is a naval shipyard worker wearing an exoskeleton. The job remains. The work becomes safer. The employer gains a wider talent pool. Physical strength stops being the thing that makes one person uniquely qualified.

In this eight-minute Better Moment, Russell explains where the advantage moves next: creativity, self-efficacy and leadership.

Russell Beck is the author of *The World of Work to 2030*. He has worked in 25 countries and was European Head of Talent at Yahoo.

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Most companies can show you a plan. Far fewer can explain the choices underneath it.

In this Better Moment, Roger Martin strips strategy back to what it actually is: what you do, not what you say. He explains why a list of initiatives is not a strategy, how the question “What would have to be true?” can get a divided room moving, and why AI is much better at finding the average answer than a distinctive one.

Thirteen minutes on the choices that make a strategy real.

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Part 2: https://shows.acast.com/betteratworkpodcast/episodes/part-2-the-worlds-1-strategy-thinker-on-why-planning-isnt-st

Book: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, by Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley.

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Cathal and Annette close out season four together in London, in person for once. The four ideas from 30+ episodes that actually changed how they work: Laura Gassner Otting's four Cs of a fulfilling career, Zach Mercurio on the mattering deficit, Colin Fisher (The Collective Edge) on teams and clarity, and the Smart Conflict five Rs from Louise van Haast and Alice Driscoll.

Plus the first listener question they've ever half disagreed on, the corporate jargon they'd ban, Annette's rabbit story, and a look ahead to season five.

We're taking a short summer break, with best-of episodes in the feed while we're away. Season five lands in September.

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