{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The HR Life Podcast","title":"EP 57 Careless Hiring, Skinwalker Ranch, and Britt Davies' Long Awaited Debut","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5055,"description":"Britt Davies started her HR career before she graduated High School, and is most recently in the tech industry, which puts her right in the middle of the layoffs and AI anxiety everyone keeps talking about. She joins Tony and Steve for a real conversation this time, after her first appearance got lost to a technical glitch, and she comes with a historian's eye for how we got here. Britt walks through the shift from Peter Drucker's era of management theory to Jack Welch's forced ranking system in the 1980s, and makes the case that every major leap in technology, from the printing press to the steam engine, has followed the same pattern: fear first, then a new frontier nobody saw coming.\nShe also gets personal about why AI matters to her beyond the workplace, and she doesn't hold back on what concerns her either. And what does Gallup's engagement data, now the lowest it has been since the pandemic, actually tell us about the people managing others, not just the people being managed? Britt has answers, and a few surprising ones. Stick around for how her idea of an annual girls trip involves Bigfoot, Skinwalker Ranch, and a paranormal conference most people have never heard of.\nLearn more about Britt Davies at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittdaviespeople/\nCheck out Britt's podcast, The At Will Economy at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zE64AwfH8h2UPOY3I8MxA?si=ivkG0G0STHKJSaszZjcO5w&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1&dlsi=ba57a0e82292427c\nLearn more about Fantastic Tony Benjamin at: https://www.thegrangellc.com/\nLearn more about Steven \"Big Deal\" Smith at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/\nLearn more about the Books mentioned on the podcast at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/hr-life-podcast\nLearn more about Dyno Outfitters at: https://www.utahviaferrata.com/\nLearn more about MegastarHR at: https://www.megastarhr.com/\nLearn more about Pucks for Autism at: https://www.pucksforautism.com/\nLearn more about Thrive Life Project at: https://www.thrivelifeproject.org/\nRing doorbell...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Dg1nikgNIIIBiQCUsnJo4wpEX5v9Sjy5XBFpDEL2i2A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jODk0/MWQzOTZhY2IyMDVi/ODhhMWZmY2EyZTFl/ZGU0Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}