At Work with The Ready - Depthfinding: Solve Your Cross-Functional Problems…Finally!

Depthfinding: Solve Your Cross-Functional Problems…Finally!

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01/13/25 • 36 min

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At Work with The Ready

Over the last decade at The Ready, we’ve seen firsthand that the most significant organizational challenges are nearly all cross-functional. But most company structures? Very much not cross-functional. Adding more project managers, looking to external partners for one-and-done silver bullets, or assembling yet another task force just isn’t cutting it as the world changes faster than most organizations can keep up.

Enter Depthfinding—an easy-to-grasp framework designed to help leaders and teams solve their gnarliest cross-functional challenges. In our new Depthfinding miniseries, Rodney and Sam will help you see your organization in a new way whether you’re individual contributor or a C-Suite executive. Ready? Let’s dive in.

Download the Depthfinding guide to get the template and example Rodney mentioned in this episode.

Want to learn more about Depthfinding? Head here: theready.com/depthfinding

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Mentioned references:

The Ready's OS Canvas
strategy pancakes: AWWTR Ep. 2
even/overs: BNW Ep. 44
essential intent: BNW Ep. 90 with Greg McKeown
check-in round

This episode's theme music is Yaggadang by BG & Coyote Radio.

Sound engineering and design by Taylor Marvin of Coupe Studios.

Download the Depthfinding guide to get the template and example Rodney mentioned in this episode.

Want to learn more about Depthfinding? Head here: theready.com/depthfinding

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Mentioned references:

The Ready's OS Canvas
strategy pancakes: AWWTR Ep. 2
even/overs: BNW Ep. 44
essential intent: BNW Ep. 90 with Greg McKeown
check-in round

This episode's theme music is Yaggadang by BG & Coyote Radio.

Sound engineering and design by Taylor Marvin of Coupe Studios.

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25. 1M Downloads and Counting: Looking Back on 2024

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2024 felt like a bit of a rollercoaster—and while we’re ready to close the book on this year, we wouldn’t be first-class org designers if we passed up the chance to hold a retrospective. Add in the fact that this is Rodney’s 200th episode and BNW + AWWTR have crossed the one million download milestone, and a little celebration feels like the right thing.

In today’s episode, Rodney and Sam reflect on the show’s 2024 season—including the episodes they loved, the episodes they want a do-over on, and what they hope for the show in 2025.

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Mentioned references:

The Future of HR Miniseries
The Ready's OS Canvas
RACI episode: AWWTR Ep. 10
Leaders as org designers episode: AWWTR Ep. 13
"McGillicuddy"
All the small things episode: AWWTR Ep. 19
"video about the woman who doesn't use a calendar"
Jason Fox episode: AWWTR Ep. 17 with Jason Fox
Dual Transformation, book from 2017

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Depthfinding: Sky - Threats and Opportunities

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In this miniseries, we’re exploring Depthfinding—an easy-to-grasp framework designed to help leaders and teams solve their gnarliest cross-functional challenges.

This week, Rodney and Sam look at the Sky—the external forces like market shifts, technological disruptions, and political changes that shape your organization. While most companies are comfortable staying heads-down in the day-to-day, failing to look outward creates costly blind spots that lead to org debt, misaligned strategy, and even existential risk.

Cultivating a regular practice of looking up and outward is the key to successfully meeting this moment—and all the ones to come.

Download the Depthfinding guide to get the template and examples of how to use it.

Want to learn more about Depthfinding? Head here: theready.com/depthfinding

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