Episodes

  • Managed - Navigate the complexities with Ezra Wade

    Managed - Navigate the complexities with Ezra Wade
    Apr 17 2026
    Join host Ezra Wade as he unpacks middle management—the often-overlooked craft that keeps organizations running. "Managed" explores why companies neglect the managers making critical daily decisions, why great managers get promoted away from what they do best, and what breaks in the process.

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    1 min
  • Managed - The Promotion That Breaks Everything

    Managed - The Promotion That Breaks Everything
    Apr 17 2026
    Host Ezra Wade examines why organizations promote exceptional managers into roles they may struggle with, leaving teams that lose expertise. Drawing on the Peter Principle and organizational research, he explores how career structures prioritize vertical advancement over mastery, proposing dual-track systems that reward excellence without forced promotion.

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    28 mins
  • Managed - Why We Worship Strategy and Starve Operations

    Managed - Why We Worship Strategy and Starve Operations
    Apr 17 2026
    Ezra Wade examines how business culture has overvalued strategy while starving operations of resources, prestige, and talent since the 1970s, creating fragile organizations with brilliant visions but crumbling foundations that can't execute.

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    26 mins
  • Managed - The Invisible Skillset

    Managed - The Invisible Skillset
    Apr 17 2026
    Host Ezra Wade explores the cognitive work behind genuine management competence—from system-state awareness to judgment under ambiguity—and why this invisible skillset gets treated as clerical despite being foundational to organizations. A deep dive into the discipline nobody values until it's gone.

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    22 mins