Most of what we consider to be leadership is about managing resources, not leading humans. AI is about to make that impossible to ignore. The leadership practices that would actually make work better for us are not new. They've just never been trained and practised well enough. Instead we focused on efficiency, control and output. That's management. Now that AI can handle all of that much better, what's left for us? I think this is the defining question of our time. Instead of asking if AI will replace leaders, we should ask whether we'll finally build the kind of leadership that deserves to stay. The New Work Playbook is a podcast for anyone who believes that work gets better because people matter. Main episodes explore why something matters for leadership in the age of AI. Reflection episodes give you actual practices to improve your leadership. Interviews and conversations with people who already shape the future of work will come in to inspire and shift perspectives. Hosted by Annett Burger, a practitioner with over twenty years of experience in executive search, leadership development, and consulting.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMost of what we consider to be leadership is about managing resources, not leading humans. AI is about to make that impossible to ignore. The leadership practices that would actually make work better for us are not new. They've just never been trained and practised well enough. Instead we focused on efficiency, control and output. That's management.
Recent episodes include "Getting Out of the Kitchen" (20 October 2026, 16 minutes), "The Blame Machine" (17 September 2026, 31 minutes), and "Once, Twice, Culture" (1 September 2026, 17 minutes).
THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOK publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 20 minutes.
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This reflection episode gives you three practices for better decision making and accountability taking in your team. The first is Leaving Traces: Three questions answered at the moment you decide, and a review date set...
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Think of the best and the worst decision you've ever made. Most of us sorted them by how they turned out, not by how we decided. That's outcome bias, and it doesn't stop at our own heads. It runs through how...
THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOK
A family sits down and agrees that dinner is a phone-free time. Two weeks later, someone breaks the agreement. Tune in to hear what happens and why it matters for your team culture. Every team has norms, whether anyone...
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"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Peter Drucker never said or wrote it. It became a popular claim anyway and we often read a good culture into it. Read plainly, it doesn't say anything about which kind of culture...
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This reflection episode turns purpose and direction into two practices you can start this week. The first is about sensegiving and sensemaking. Three questions that build the line of sight between one person's job and...
THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOK
Ask people what meaningful work is and you get very different answers, yet most of us would take a pay cut for work that has more of it. This episode is about that gap, why purpose stays so fuzzy, and why it matters...
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What is the foundation to becoming a great listener? This is the reflection episode following The Talking Reflex. It's designed to be practised, not just listened to. You'll hear a difficult conversation twice. Once...
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Most managers are sure they listen well while their people don't feel heard. This episode is about that gap, why it survives, and what us when we don't close it. I look at the research on how we really listen, why...
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In the main episode I made the case that psychological safety is a key performance indicator, and that the way we handle AI adoption exposes and amplifies the leadership already in place. This reflection episode is...
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The Reflection Episode on Deep Listening <p>In this episode:</p> A difficult conversation played twice, once with a manager who performs all the right listening moves and misses what matters, and once with a manager who...
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Listen to Understand, Not to Reply <p>In this episode:</p> The gap between how well managers think they listen and how heard their people actually feel. The three forces behind it: the limits of self-awareness, the lack...
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The Reflection Episode on Psychological Safety <p>In this episode:</p> Why your reaction to questions, concerns, mistakes and problems matters. Recovery moves for when your reaction, or someone else's on the team, lands...
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The Cost of Our Silence <p>In this episode:</p> The Romance of Leadership bias and why coverage of bad bosses misses the responsibility of those who follow them. Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People and Karen Hao's...
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The Closing Episode to Season 1 <p>In this episode: – Why "be more authentic" became one of the most repeated and least useful pieces of advice in leadership. – How the field reached for an already-individualised idea...
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The Reflection Episode on Caring Leadership <p>In this episode:</p> How care propagates through three degrees of social connection. The first practice: Small acts of care in daily life that you can apply immediately...
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We Got Lost in Translation by Focusing too Much on Empathy <p>In this episode:</p> The difference between empathy and care. Why most of us have been missing one half of the picture. Daniel Goleman's update on empathy...
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The Reflection Episode on Bringing Trust Back in the Age of AI <p>In this episode:</p> Why most of us name honesty as a value but do not really live it. A personal story about kindness I received from a stranger and...
THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOK
Bringing Trust Back in the Age of AI <p>In this episode: </p> Why trust is a volatile value Why even leaders who founded their company on clear principles and values are subject to the same pressures every leader faces...
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The Reflection Episode on Curiosity in the Age of AI <p>In this episode:</p> Why the goldfish attention span claim is fabricated, and where the number actually came from. The same shape behind the ten-percent brain...
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We Killed Curiosity Long Before AI Arrived <p>In this episode:</p> What curiosity actually is, and why treating it as a personality trait costs organisations more than they realise. A formative experience from a 1995...
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Leading Without Fear: The Truth About Trust, Failure, and Psychological Safety, Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
Author of Empire of AI on Why "Scale at All Costs" is Not Leading Us to a Good Place, technocracy.news
former Facebook Director of Global Public Policy, Facebook
former Facebook Director of Global Public Policy, Facebook
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