“Always looking for good business podcasts; tried 5 of these. They included Uber, Amazons remote work, something about breaking things and will a very nice writer be replaced by AI. No great insight, lots of bias and too much self promotion. Recommendations were ok; the kind I saw in every business article in the 80s and 90s and you can now get with ChatGPT, the free version.
They’re a bit lazy. The Amazon episode on remote work talked about the gazillions of studies supporting remote work. Didn’t mention that 98% are surveys asking people whether they liked it. The one objective one is over 10 years old and a Chinese call center (only one I’ve ever seen that’s objective but hardly representative of most businesses). Even a recent Harvard report mentioned the pros and cons; don’t think they read it. I’m a believer in the hybrid model, but all the fawning over remote work is either advocacy or sloppiness.
Other episodes reminded of the lightweight, data free articles of 30 years ago. Lots of need for trust, transparency and just about every corporate buzzword you could think of. Almost all of it was correct and useful for a first time manager, but that’s it.
Style was very good though the constant self promotion, again common back in the day, got a little annoying. My guess is this skill translates to reviews of the podcast.”
Marcus517 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/09/24