{"podcast":{"title":"The Manager's Hour with Fexingo: People Management, Team Building, and Leadership Skills","slug":"the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622","podcast_index_feed_id":7871622,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":122,"summary":"Lucas and Luna explore the craft of people management in a series of focused conversations grounded in real-world cases and data. Each episode tackles a specific management challenge—hiring for culture fit vs. skill, conducting effective performance reviews, navigating team conflict, delegating without losing control, or building psychological safety in hybrid teams. Lucas brings the research (Gallup engagement data, Google's Project Aristotle, HBR case studies) and Luna pushes back with frontline practice from her own experience managing teams of ten to fifty. They avoid platitudes; instead, they walk through concrete scenarios like how to tell a high performer they're not getting promoted, how to run a retrospective that doesn't devolve into blame, and how to set boundaries with a CEO who keeps bypassing the chain of command. The show serves mid-level managers who have six to twenty direct reports and want to get better at the human side of leadership—not the theory, but the messy, daily work of helping people grow. Lucas and Luna don't pretend to have all the answers, but they ask the right questions: what do you owe the employee who is good but not great? How do you balance fa…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T04:17:55.133432+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622"},"episode":{"title":"Managing the Employee Who Always Says That's How We've Always Done It","slug":"managing-the-employee-who-always-says-that-s-how-we-ve-always-done-it","published_at":"2026-07-12T16:57:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/managing-the-employee-who-always-says-that-s-how-we-ve-always-done-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0110.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-managers-hour/episode-0110.mp3","summary":"Episode 110 of The Manager's Hour tackles the classic change-resistant phrase 'That's how we've always done it.' Lucas and Luna dig into why this mindset emerges, using the real-world example of Kodak's slow pivot to digital and the internal resistance managers face when trying to modernize legacy processes. They discuss practical techniques like 'the three-question probe' and 'small pilot experiments' to overcome the inertia without alienating tenured team members. The conversation also touches on the psychological safety needed to encourage innovation, drawing on Amy Edmondson's work at Harvard. If you're a manager struggling to update an outdated workflow without triggering defensiveness, this episode offers concrete scripts and a mindset shift. #ChangeManagement #ResistanceToChange #ThatsHowWeveAlwaysDoneIt #LegacyProcesses #ManagerTips #TeamCulture #Innovation #PsychologicalSafety #AmyEdmondson #Kodak #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #PeopleManagement #Business #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #ManagerHour #Podcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 110 of The Manager's Hour tackles the classic change-resistant phrase 'That's how we've always done it.' Lucas and Luna dig into why this mindset…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":583,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/episodes/managing-the-employee-who-always-says-that-s-how-we-ve-always-done-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-manager-s-hour-with-fexingo-people-management-team-building-and-leadership-skills-7871622/managing-the-employee-who-always-says-that-s-how-we-ve-always-done-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}