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🎙️ Workshape’s Field Notes — Ep. 05: Are Our Systems of Work Working?

In this expansive and thought-provoking episode of Field Notes, we continue our “Rethinking Systems” conversation with two brilliant global voices: Domino Risch, founder of Placeology, and Shujaat Ahmed, founder of Belong & Lead and former global people strategist at LinkedIn. Together, they unpack what it truly means to lead and design for work in a post-structure, post-line-of-sight, AI-integrated world.

This episode is a masterclass in modern workplace systems thinking, blending neuroscience, cultural strategy, human connection, and workplace design into one conversation you won’t want to miss.

💡 In this episode:

Why the 40-hour, 5-day workweek is an outdated industrial relic—and how its legacy still shapes our offices, teams, and policies.

The power (and potential pitfalls) of team agreements—and why decentralization doesn’t have to mean disconnection.

How workplaces can become platforms for psychological safety, purpose, and innovation—not just productivity.

Shujaat explains how organizational network analysis (ONA) reveals where innovation really happens—through weak ties, not org charts.

Domino unpacks how leadership bias, legacy management practices, and the need for predictability in a complex world are holding companies back from real progress.

A fascinating look at AI as a coordination engine, nudging better decisions about when—and why—we gather in person.

🏗️ Key themes:

Letting go of line-of-sight leadership in favor of outcome-driven autonomy

The power of distributed “third places” over centralized HQs

Moving from mandates to meaning in workplace design

Why the “me” era of work must give way to the “we” era

Designing for serendipity, not surveillance

💬 “We’re trying to put the genie back in the bottle, and the bottle wasn’t even that great in 2019.”

This is the episode for you if you’re questioning old paradigms, experimenting with new team rhythms, or designing spaces for more belonging, innovation, and intention.

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Domino Risch:
  / domino-risch-5639b531  
Placeology: https://placeology.com.au/
📚 Domino's Book Recommendations:
• Beyond Collaboration Overload – Rob Cross
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/ite...
• The Micro-Stress Effect – Rob Cross
https://hbr.org/book/9781647823977/th...
• The Friction Project – Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao
https://www.frictionproject.org
• The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers – Zeke Hernandez
https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...

Shujaat Ahmad:   / shujaatahmad  
Beyond & Lead: https://www.belongandlead.com/
📚 Shujaat's Book Recommendations:
• Slow Horses series – Mick Herron
https://www.mickherron.com/slow-horses
• Hospicing Modernity – Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/sh...
• A Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

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