A show about forward-thinking people leaders, innovators and academics and how they think we can fix work to make it more meaningful, healthy, inclusive and sustainable. This podcast aims to be informative, fun and a bit provocative. Hosted by award-winning business journalist and WTW Digital Influencer of the Year 2023 Siân Harrington. Produced by The People Space. Find more at www.thepeoplespace.com
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A podcast about Design and Tech
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Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform. Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowle ...
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LFF is an irreverent soccer podcast where two Americans tell the world how to fix its most popular sport--while following their favorite European leagues.
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Welcome to the Then Let's Fix It podcast, where we discuss critical issues around logistics and supply chain management in the Caribbean, and where we mobilise to resolve these issues so that the Caribbean becomes one of the world's most attractive logistics and supply chain jurisdictions.
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The landscape of business is changing...radically. Yet leadership is being taught the same way it's always been taught. When the world is changing, it’s time to bring our leadership styles along for the ride. Thanks to cutting-edge neuroscience, we now have access to new tools and new language that inspires action, collaboration, and innovation in the modern workplace. And Let's Fix Leadership is designed to bring you the best of these cutting-edge tools, exercises, best practices, and moder ...
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Employment Is Dead. What Comes Next Will Change Everything - with Josh Drean
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44:14In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It! Siân Harrington sits down with Josh Drean, workplace futurist and co-author of Employment is Dead, to explore why the traditional employment contract may soon be a relic of the past – and what’s rising to take its place. In a world shaped by AI, blockchain, Web3 and an emerging generation of work…
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Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problem…
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Episode 195: Wait. Can A Mere Boy Save The World?? (Wed, March 26, 2025) My new novel is titled The Boy Who Saves The World. Thoughtful people want to know, could such a thing actually happen??? Many experts speculate that robotics and AI can end up anywhere you can imagine.... as in this thriller. --------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 194: The 8000-pound Guerrilla in the Classroom?? Wed, March 19, 2025 The Comintern was all about winning. An idea could be really quite nasty and barbarous. But if it would win, they did it. Promises changed. Lenin promised: “Land, bread, peace.” The peasants got none of that. Did you notice the casual way Kamala went from hating fracking t…
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Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking -- Wed, March 12, 2025 I want to celebrate the work of Linda Goudsmit. Her topic is understanding life in the 21st-century, the forces that are dragging it down, and how we can make it better. --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ---------------------…
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Episode 192: "Why are underperforming schools in American urban neighborhoods difficult to turn around?" (Quora Question) Wed, March 5, 2025
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GREAT DOUBLE ARTICLE: a quick look at why we must have phonics. And a quick look at the career of Sue Dickson, who invented one of the best phonics programs. All of this in five minutes. -------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- --…
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Episode 191: How To Teach Philosophy Every Day (Wed, Feb 26, 2025) Epoque Times, a great newspaper, presents a daily feature: great quotes from great minds. So you know that, quickly and cheaply, all schools can teach philosophy all day long. Use Epoque Times or create your own feature. --------------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 190: No more Department of Education?? Wonderful idea!! A silly question on the Internet: If the Department of Education is dismantled, then how are kids going to receive their education? No, the Department of Education is the repository of bad ideas and bad ambitions. Get rid of it and let more mainstream people take control of K-12. -----…
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Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline -- Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late) (First let me mention this is the first deadline I missed in three years; my email provider stopped doing its job for two or three days.) Main news: EducationNext.org reports that we have been mired in shrinking academic outc…
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Episode 188: What IsThe Right Amount Of Linguistic Education For American Students? Wed, Feb 5, 2025
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Many pundits have noticed that American students almost never learn a second language. This is a tragic loss. What's the reason? --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT. ----------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 187: There’s no Mental like Experimental (Wed, Jan. 29, 2025) In general, the public schools are more dull than ever, and much too devoid of substance. So look for antidote and remedies that make students try new approaches. All those things could be called experimental and that's what this article is about. --------------------------------…
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Episode 186: What Do American Kids Learn In Grade One? (Quora question) Wed, Jan 22, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We need more learning starting in kindergarten. And a lot less blah-blah-blah. The essence of the problem, the essence of the solution, all in 5-minute podcast. --…
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Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers.
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Episode 185: Bullying! Cheating! Phones in class!... Everybody complains.... Nobody has answers. (Wed., Jan. 15, 2025) The Education Establishment likes to whine. You may think they are expressing a love of improvement. No, they are reinforcing an endless capacity for decline. All the big shots whine, and the public lets them get away with murder, …
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Why Great Workers Become Bad Managers with Kate Waterfall Hill
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42:51In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It! Siân Harrington sits down with Kate Waterfall Hill, executive coach, leadership expert and creator of Linda, the bad manager, to explore why leadership so often falls short in today’s workplace. With humour and insight Kate reveals why bad managers are everywhere, the hidden causes of their faili…
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Episode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story (Wed, Jan 8, 2025) It was a deal signed in blood, or if not in blood, then in IQ points. Keeping Sight-Words in play was a dirty trick on all the average students who were reduced a notch or three. Frank Smith produced the sophistry required to keep nonsense in …
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Episode 183: Celebrate the New Year with my Most Popular Podcast Wed., Jan. 1, 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's Fix Education has been going strong for more than three years, and during all that time one episode was far and away the crowd favorite by a factor of 100. Episode 86:…
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Episode 182: How To Teach More (Wed, Dec 25, 2024 For our Education Establishment an exciting new wrinkle would be 20 ways to practice collaboration. Their gift must be called what it is, sleep-inducing. With just a bit of creativity and exploiting the information available to anyone, you can make memorable classroom instruction. Magicians these da…
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Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024) ————————------------------------------------------------------------— Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words. A reform group invited me over to g…
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Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024) Starting in kindergarten, children need to read, and they need to learn basic information. Our public schools are designed to stymie BOTH goals. People with children in school have got to pay more attention. The child’s cognitive and intellectual life might be stunted. -----------…
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Episode 179: Religion versus Science: where’s that go? (Wed., Dec. 4, 2024) Science or Religion, which do you prefer? Another question is, which do you hope is true? My main generalization about the universe is that it's insanely chaotic and mysterious. Science and Religion are two ways of grappling with the chaos and mystery. I recommend both. His…
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Lost in the Machine: Reclaiming Humanity in the Age of AI with Tomas Chamarro-Premuzic
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41:22In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fit It! Siân Harrington dives into the complex and often paradoxical relationship between humans and artificial intelligence with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, organisational psychologist and author of the provocative book I, Human. Together they unpack the ways AI is reshaping workplaces – and our very min…
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Big Pharma and Big Ed have a lot in common. Chicanery. Shenanigans. Blatant corruption. Lots of gullible victims. IMHO. There seem to be people at the top of both industries who lack the gene for shame. Anything they can get away with, they are all in. Time for the public to realize what the game is they're playing. On street corners it's called Th…
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Episode 177: The Scariest Shift Is The Growing Indifference To TRUTH. Wed., Nov. 20, 2024 Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Here’s why that is good! Our professors of education are like a vast tumor growing over American culture. They skillfully encourage dumbing down. They must believe they are stronger if the people are weak.…
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Episode 176: The Goal Is Not The Goal (Wed., Nov. 13, 2024) There is a lot of bait and switch throughout K-12, in all subjects. The professors promise you’ll be educated, but instead they make you learn minor stuff, irrelevant stuff. The crucial stuff is forgotten. ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read…
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Episode 175: Millions of Children Suffer from Schoolitis Here is a dirty little secret. Experts create clouds of confusion around our schools. Parents do not know what's going on in the schools. Or whether anything good is happening. Here are some tips for evaluating the damage ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PO…
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Episode 174, The Education Enigma -- Wed., Oct. 30, 2024 What is THE EDUCATION ENIGMA? USA spends more money per capita than any other country, but we have the worst schools. And the least educated students. How do you explain this to yourself? This paradox I have named The Education Enigma. Everything is unbelievably shoddy and low-level, except t…
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Memo to students. Are you looking for good topics to research and write about? I have been studying education for many years. I've published a lot of material that you will find useful. So much of the writing within the field of education is shallow, useless, and boring. Typically, professors try to protect methods that should never have been embra…
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No Silver Bullet: Debunking the Quick Fix In Leadership with Steve Hearsum
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48:03In this episode of Work’s Not Working, Siân Harrington sits down with Steve Hearsum to debunk one of the most seductive myths in leadership and organisational change – the myth of the "silver bullet." From tales of vampires and werewolves to the Lone Ranger’s legendary single shot, Steve uses storytelling to explore why leaders are so often tempted…
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Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy?
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Episode 172: Trump threatens to cancel Department of Education. Is this Good? Bad? Or merely a premise for Comedy? (Wed., Oct. 16, 2024) K-12 is not a serious place. It’s an endless array of goofy ideas that should never be used. Basically, that's why Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education. Personally, I support anything that puts pre…
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Episode 171: Why Kids Need Multiplication Tables (Wed., October 9, 2024) What is the one method that every student knows is essential for middle and upper level math. It's a list of shortcuts that we call the multiplication tables. What is 6 by 4? If you don't know, you have to start over again on every question. You have to put little dots on the …
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Episode 170: Critical thinking about why do zebras have stripes? (Wed., Oct. 2, 2024) Ed professors play a dangerous game, keeping students ignorant, while pretending that somehow they are being educated. No matter what people are discussing, you need a little basic information on that topic to join the discussion. Did you know that science has not…
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Episode 169: Make sure your child is reading in first grade. (Wed., Sept.25, 2024) -- K-12 is polluted by bad reading theories. They are killing the country. And if you let them, they will cripple your kid. Maybe you think the education professors are nice guys lost in the woods, that's why they prefer bad theories. No, it's not possible. The argum…
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People Aren’t Data: How to be an AI Savvy Leader with David De Cremer
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46:18In this episode of Work’s Not Working Siân Harrington speaks with AI and leadership expert David De Cremer about the challenges business leaders face when integrating AI into the workplace. They explore how the rush to adopt AI can often miss the mark by focusing too much on technological solutions and not enough on the human elements that make suc…
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Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024)
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Episode 168: Back To School: Don’t Let Children Be Culturally Illiterate (Wed., Sept. 18, 2024) All of education depends on starting small and building on that foundation. Our public schools have gutted the early stages where you learn the basics, also known as cultural literacy. Demand that children learn more facts and knowledge from kindergarten…
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Our country is dumber each year because less and less knowledge is taught in the classroom. Don't accept this incompetence, or what I would call it, malevolence. Episode 167 offers ideas for making our schools more efficient, and our students more intelligent. ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODCAST or read TRAN…
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Episode 166: Back to school: Modern History Elevated by Iron and Steel Wed., Sept. 4, 2024 SUMMARY: A look at the central ingredient of modern times, namely, the SKYSCRAPER. When did it appear and how and why? —————————————————————————— —————————————————————————— POSTSCRIPT: as urgent as ever Reading is the most important thing. Our public schools …
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Five Generations, One Workforce: Fixing Leadership for a Multi-Generational Future with Paul Anderson-Walsh
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48:28In this episode of Work’s Not Working, Siân Harrington and inclusion expert Paul Anderson Walsh explore the challenges of managing five generations in the workplace and the need for adaptive leadership. They highlight the different expectations and perspectives of each generation, from Traditionalists to Gen Z, and the impact of these differences o…
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Episode 165: Back to school: Jump into science, e.g., electricity (Wed. Aug. 28, 2024) Start small. Teach the littlest amount of information possible. Over time you can give children the fundamental information they need. Kids are sometimes given no preliminary instruction and then expected to grasp sophisticated phenomena. Won’t happen without a s…
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Episode 164 Back To School: Make Reading #1 Priority (Wed.,August 21, 2024) Super-condensed explanation of why the schools can’t teach reading. This is the single most important flaw in American culture. Don't take it anymore. The podcast is interrupted in the middle so you can watch a video called READING IS EASY. Only three minutes. If you don't …
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Episode 163: More Good Ideas For Going Back to School Wed., August 14, 2024 ---------------------------- Let's reclaim the classrooms and fill them with joyful learning. To understand why the schools are so bad, you have to understand that the professors in charge do not care about intellectual or academic content. Sorry, that's the tough reality. …
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Episode 162; Exploring through Typography Wed., Aug., 7, 2024 BACK TO SCHOOL with better ways to do everything. For example, use graphics and type design to teach reading, aesthetic judgment, marketing, in short, all the things that a savvy adult should know. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to PODC…
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Episode 61: Schools more violent!! Experts pretend to be baffled?? Wed., July 31, 2024 If sight-words and constructivism, didn't work 50 years ago, why do you think they'll work today? The schools are full of goofy ideas. Think of them as ticks on a dog, pluck them off and burn them. Episode 161 explains why the Education Establishment is so unhelp…
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From Cog in Machine to Human at Work: Why Victorian Beliefs are Holding Us Back with Blaire Palmer
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41:51In this episode of Work’s Not Working, Siân Harrington speaks with Blaire Palmer about the outdated Victorian beliefs and practices still influencing modern workplaces. Despite technological and societal advancements, many organizations remain entrenched in old paradigms, treating employees like second-rate machines. Blaire argues that these antiqu…
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Episode 160: How Ideological Hacks Ruin The Schools (Wed., July 24, 2024) Don't let the blizzard of lies confuse you. It's the same pattern over and over. They try to take you off your game. So they can order you around and make you behave the way they want. The answers themselves are just garbage. That's the thing to keep in mind. ----------------…
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Episode 159: What About the Attempted "Assassination" of American Children? ( Wed., July 17, 2024)
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Episode 159: What About the Attempted Assassination of American Children? Wed., July 17, 2024 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Really hyper ingenious conspiracy. Or just weird dumb luck. I'm talking about the Trump assassination. I'm also talking about the weird ways they teach…
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Episode 158: Public Schools gone to hell?? Who you gonna call?? Wed., July 10, 2024 Basically all education, in all times and places, can be described as incremental mastery. You learn a little today and then a little more tomorrow and then still a little more the next day. Just as if you want to build a high brick wall, you start with one row of b…
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Episode 157: why do Public Schools hate Geography? (Wed., July 3rd, 2024) There are no good ideas in our public schools, only garbage expressed in protective sauce. Instead of telling you how to reach your destination, the schools will lay out a program of scuba diving, mah Jong, and fashion tips. You won't get to where you wanted to go. After a wh…
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Episode 156: The Waste of Systemic Ignorance (Wed., June 26, 2024) The situation is simple. The professional educators, as they deceptively call themselves, don't believe in education. They like ignorance. Learn, baby, learn. That should be the chant and the cheer of all educated people. Good School, Bad School. How to tell the difference-- see sho…
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Reality One, we have to get rid of sight-words, so that literacy will have a chance. Reality Two requires explaining the subject to lots of people. That's done most easily, according to author Linda Goudsmit, with the following one-page method. This explanation requires navigating the chaos of print, like what a child has to deal with. It's better …
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Episode 154: "How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.)
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Episode 154 - Wednesday, June 12, 2024 "‘How did our institutes of higher learning turn into Marxist reeducation camps?” (Question on Quora.) ----- A pivotal question which every American should try to answer. Here's my short answer: a vast army of saboteurs has been working in the shadows for more than a century. Here is the chronology, starting i…
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