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10:23The AI Paradox: A Small Business Champion Worried About Perfect TechSean O'Shea: So the second one is shared experience. I think one of the most powerful things you can do to get people together and bond people in the smallest amount of space-time possible is to put them in a way where tEP 309 · 11 Jun 2026·interview· 10:23–14:5613:22Mark Zuckerberg's digital cloneAl Elliott: Well, let me cheer you up with a story about our favourite crazy, crazy billionaire, Zuck, Mark Zuckerberg. So it was in The Guardian this week that Meta, which is the company that owns Facebook and InstagramEP 294 · 21 Apr 2026·news roundup· 13:22–16:5710:00HowToJob & Interviewly: AI interview coachingAl Elliott: Okay, so I want to talk a little bit about something I teased in the intro. There's a platform called How2Job. The name How2Job— job has now seemed to become like a, like a verb. We job, I job, you job, he joEP 286 · 24 Mar 2026·news roundup· 10:00–15:527:18Why HR tech hasn't changed in 15 yearsJeffrey Fermin: Reality is there's not, in my opinion, not much has changed in terms of the tech being used. And a lot of the same issues are still kind of out there and prevalent where employees still feel actively diseEP 285 · 19 Mar 2026·interview· 7:18–9:0127:00AI as an amplifier, not a replacementAl Elliott: I'm sure you said this, maybe I dreamt it, but you said something about AI being an amplifier, not a replacer. So is that what you're talking about there? Jeffrey Fermin: Yes, I very much view AI as an amplifEP 285 · 19 Mar 2026·interview· 27:00–31:180:00Intro: The AI sales coach that gets things wrongAl Elliott: There's an American tech company that's developed this AI sales coach, and it quite often gets things wrong. It misreads calls, or it criticizes strengths thinking they're weaknesses. It occasionally just misEP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·intro· 0:00–0:374:54Generative AI vs. the AI that came beforeAndrew Palmer: Yeah, so you're right to specify generative AI. Obviously, other forms of AI have been around for a long time, but what we were trying to do here was work out kind of how this thing is already starting to EP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·interview· 4:54–6:3612:26The AI agent that called its owner while he was sleepingAl Elliott: Wow. I love this, right? So I'm gonna tell you a story that sounds like science fiction, but it isn't. So bear with me. There's gonna be a little nerdy stuff in here. So if I say something, I'm like, it doesnEP 274 · 10 Feb 2026·news roundup· 12:26–21:2123:55Prediction 4 — AI will break management before it fixes it (Vince Sanderson)Leanne Elliott: Welcome back, brew in hand, I hope. Our next prediction comes from the amazing Vince Sanderson, who's a bit of a TikTok legend in the management world Al Elliott: Yeah, he's got 260,000 followers and overEP 263 · 1 Jan 2026·other· 23:55–30:0729:07What this means for teams, engagement, and the irony of technologyLeanne Elliott: What will that mean for people around leaders that are able to cultivate this mindset and this discipline? What does that mean for their team? Rob Kalwarowsky: The flat-out facts are this, Leanne. EngagemEP 257 · 11 Dec 2025·interview· 29:07–31:429:32AI clones are coming for your coworkersLeanne Elliott: Yes, let's talk about your thing Al Elliott: Okay, so Viven or Viven, I'm not quite sure what it's called. Uh, essentially, right, this is the situation. You need to ask someone at work for something and EP 244 · 28 Oct 2025·news roundup· 9:32–14:507:45Workslop: AI's productivity problemLeanne Elliott: What? Al Elliott: Yeah, I know. I was a bit jealous of you coming up with a new word, so I've got my own. When I said got my own new word, it was in Harvard Business Review. Check me out. As I'm speaking EP 236 · 30 Sept 2025·news roundup· 7:45–11:1743:43First experiences with computersAl Elliott: Yeah, absolutely was Leanne Elliott: What was your first experience of using computers? Al Elliott: My first experience, I've got, I remember 2EP 222 · 12 Aug 2025·other· 43:43–48:2521:43Hot Take: Why Tech Can't Fix Burnout with John ChanJohn Chan: Yes, my hot take is that technology alone is not going to improve productivity, right? And no amount of AI is going to solve some of the systemic problems that are entrenched in a lot of organizations. Now, noEP 184 · 1 Apr 2025·hot take· 21:43–34:0620:37The AI hype cycle and what's really changingLeanne Elliott: In terms of AI, I've spoken to a couple of tech, tech leaders recently and they seem to have different opinions on AI. I speak to some people who are like, it's going to completely revolutionize the way wEP 157 · 26 Dec 2024·other· 20:37–26:0840:53What would we tell Generation Alpha?Leanne Elliott: A couple of years ago, the Ellie Sparkles Show, a YouTube show aimed at children, surveyed 1,000 5 to 8-year-olds in the United States about what they wanted from work. The 4th most popular job was a YouTEP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 40:53–47:2512:17Can AI help us find purpose at work?Leanne Elliott: Well, I mean, we have been hearing quite a lot about AI recently Al Elliott: Oh yeah Leanne Elliott: How it's changing industries, maybe boosting productivity, or maybe even replacing jobs. And let's be hEP 130 · 24 Sept 2024·news roundup· 12:17–16:0018:13Future of Work in 2074: what Arthur C. Clarke got rightLeanne Elliott: The audio destination for business professionals Al Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come backEP 120 · 6 Aug 2024·news roundup· 18:13–26:200:33ChatGPT: The hidden AI revolutionAl Elliott: Nice Leanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning psychology podcast brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. My name isEP 99 · 21 May 2024·news roundup· 0:33–5:0230:53How the platform actually works — and the "returner rating"Al Elliott: Being an absolute nerd, I wanted to dive a bit more into the technology. How does the actual platform work? Lydia & Amelia (Ivee co-founders, merged ch): What's really cool about it is we've embedded kind of EP 94 · 2 May 2024·interview· 30:53–35:1521:05The misguided pursuit of efficiency through technologyLeanne Elliott: I feel that we've answered our first question: is flexible work the future? The answer is yes, but not necessarily 100% remote. The office has its advantages. So let's spend the next few minutes talking aEP 83 · 21 Mar 2024·panel interview· 21:05–25:0535:51Technology, AI, and the future of hospitalityAl Elliott: Wow, what a line. Food is the best condiment for humanity. She was just such a great interviewee. She just was so eloquent and just gave great answers. And that was one of my favorite things that she said. BuEP 66 · 23 Nov 2023·interview· 35:51–42:1013:58Growing up in the age of everything being measuredAl Elliott: So then the second part about Gen Z that's super interesting Is because they have grown up in a time where everything, all knowledge, everything they want is instantly accessible, right? Like, so there's not EP 64 · 16 Nov 2023·other· 13:58–15:1372:11Trend 7: Technology and AIRyan: 'Cause you can take a horse to the well-being water, but you can't make it drink. So you can create the space and do all these things a business can, but then it's down to the individual. But you can encourage themEP 49 · 27 Jul 2023·panel interview· 72:11–77:5244:30Don't Rely on Technology to Fix EverythingAl Elliott: As you can probably tell from the way Bernard talks, the enthusiasm he's got for this project is kind of infectious. So I said, what is next for Pep Talk? Bernard Brogan: It is, it's all-consuming and it's abEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 44:30–46:0253:05Oliver's take on AI and the futureLeanne Elliott: You heard it here first. Al Elliott: Well, maybe not here first, Twitter. Um, but we wanted to ask what Oliver's take was on AI and the future. Oliver Yonchev: I think AI is going to revolutionize every aEP 38 · 10 May 2023·interview· 53:05–59:067:09ChatGPT's new capabilitiesAl Elliott: No, I don't think that is true. And it's fair enough if that's what you want to do, but that wouldn't be my choice. But then I am 25 years older than you, so Leanne Elliott: Okay, so what else is there this wEP 33 · 5 Apr 2023·other· 7:09–11:2118:43Prediction 10: Using technology to manage burnoutAl Elliott: Where we can, I think we can probably fashion something that will predict and measure people's performance and predict burnout. I'm thinking now, this is just sort of my thoughts. This isn't necessarily goingEP 19 · 4 Jan 2023·other· 18:43–21:1832:00Prediction 12: Wearables and workplace wellbeingAl Elliott: Keep that in. Brilliant. Okay, so my final— well, my final one, which is the penultimate one, is And number 12 is a prediction around wearables. Now, this is a bit of a difficult one, and I don't have all theEP 19 · 4 Jan 2023·other· 32:00–38:19
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