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  • 692: Wharton School Professor Matthew Bidwell on How to Build a Successful Career from the Inside

    692: Wharton School Professor Matthew Bidwell on How to Build a Successful Career from the Inside
    Oct 14 2026
    Matthew Bidwell, professor at the Wharton School and author of The Insider Advantage, examines why familiarity with an organization remains a substantial source of career advantage. After studying employment and careers for more than 25 years, he concludes that work has not become nearly as fluid as many predictions suggested and that "free agent" arrangements are less attractive than they often appear. Bidwell distinguishes advancement from a satisfying working life. Promotion, pay, and status remain common measures of success, but their contribution to happiness is limited. "Doubling your income has a very small effect on your happiness," he explains. Relationships, trust in managers, belonging, meaningful work, autonomy, and lower stress tend to matter more. Professional milestones also provide only temporary satisfaction. Once one goal is achieved, "there's always something else to think about, to worry about." His research comparing external hires with people promoted into similar roles found that outside hires took approximately two to three years to reach the same performance level. This was not because organizations hired less capable people. Their performance eventually converged, but new hires first had to learn the organization's culture, relationships, processes, and ways of coordinating work. Organizations frequently underestimate the cost of losing that knowledge. Recruitment and formal training are relatively easy to measure, while reduced performance during an employee's adjustment period and disruption to the wider team are harder to quantify. Bidwell has not seen a rigorous calculation of the full cost, but considers estimates of one to two times annual salary for professional and managerial employees plausible. The underlying problem is straightforward: "What goes in a spreadsheet is what gets managed." The same reasoning complicates claims about workforce flexibility. Contractors can be brought in quickly, but they cannot become effective immediately. If a contractor becomes the only person who understands a mission-critical activity, the organization may find that it cannot dispense with that person as readily as expected. Becoming an insider requires relationships within a team and across the wider organization. Familiar teams learn how colleagues communicate and coordinate, sometimes with very little explicit instruction. Yet effectiveness also depends on people encountered less frequently, including administrators, specialists, and colleagues in other functions. New employees should attend meetings and shared activities, spend time in the office when practical, and place themselves in situations where they can meet people beyond their immediate group. Remote teams can build familiarity through informal conversation and periodic in-person gatherings. The structure of a professional network matters as well. Dense networks tend to circulate similar information. Sparser networks connect people across different groups, providing access to a wider range of information and opportunities. They also allow someone to create value by introducing a colleague with a problem to another person who can solve it. These relationships depend on reciprocity. Bidwell's advice is simple: "Be reliable. Be nice." Consistently helping others and fulfilling commitments builds the trust that supports future cooperation. Adapting to an organization's culture requires understanding not only its practices but also the purposes they serve. A culture that consults widely before acting may seem unnecessarily slow to someone accustomed to rapid decisions, yet its process may produce more carefully considered choices. These practices involve trade-offs. Employees who cannot live according to their values in an organization may be better served by leaving, but Bidwell advises examining first which preferences are essential and which learned behaviours remain negotiable. On AI, Bidwell separates current evidence from longer-term forecasts. Government labor figures do not yet show displacement on the scale suggested by public discussion, although there is no reason to assume that displacement will remain limited. He recommends scenario planning, shorter planning horizons, and preparation for several plausible futures rather than confidence in a single prediction. Early research conducted with his postdoctoral colleague found that people moving into jobs with AI in the title tended to have broader professional backgrounds. Experience across different roles and functions provides access to more opportunities and a larger toolkit for solving unfamiliar problems. Social skills and judgment may also remain valuable, particularly the ability to work with people, persuade them, make them comfortable, and decide what should be done. Bidwell treats none of these as permanent certainties. His central advice is to build breadth, relationships, and organizational knowledge while remaining prepared to adjust as the nature of ...
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  • 688: Michael on the U.S. Green Card Ban

    688: Michael on the U.S. Green Card Ban
    Oct 12 2026

    There's some big news that came out today, that has not actually gotten much publicity, but it should, especially for our client base, and for anyone who wants to have a major professional career, and that's the fact that the U.S. government has some say it's temporary, but they've temporarily banned certain tech companies from sponsoring foreign employees that are in the U.S. for permanent residency.

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  • 686: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky (Strategy Skills classics)

    686: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky (Strategy Skills classics)
    Sep 28 2026

    For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic featuring an interview with the author of Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality, Benjamin Shestakofsky. This book draws on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, and examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it. Investors push startups to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. Benjamin Shestakofsky shows how these demands create organizational problems that managers solve by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. Behind the Startup explains how the gains generated by these companies are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs. Shestakofsky compellingly argues that we must focus less on fixing the technology and more on changing the financial infrastructure that supports it.

    Benjamin Shestakofsky is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is affiliated with AI at Wharton and the Center on Digital Culture and Society. He is the author of Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (on sale March 19, 2024, University of California Press).

    Shestakofsky's research centers on the relationship between work, technology, organizations, and political economy in the age of AI.

    Articles based on his research for Behind the Startup have been awarded the 2021 Star-Nelkin Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology and the 2019 W. Richard Scott Article Award from the ASA's Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. His research has been supported by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy and the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. His work has been featured in the Financial Times, Axios, and in a publication of the World Economic Forum.

    Author website: https://www.benjaminshestakofsky.com/

    Book website: Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520395039/behind-the-startup

    X/Twitter: @bshestakofsky

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