Episode
Bad Process Kills Good People
- Podcast
- Process Debt
- Published
- Jan 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1647
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Summary
Bad process doesn’t just waste time — sometimes it creates outcomes no one intended, and no one can control. This week on the Process Debt Podcast , Chris and Toby step away from partisan politics and look at something far more uncomfortable: the processes that quietly produce extreme outcomes . Using everything from the Stanford Prison Experiment to learned helplessness, budgets, hiring incentives, uniforms, anonymity, and “protected status,” they unpack how systems — not individuals — shape behavior at scale. This isn’t a political episode. It’s a process episode. And it asks a simple but dangerous question: What happens when authority, incentives, and identity are misaligned — and no one owns the outcome?