It has been said that the fundamental structure of the economy was strong before the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, but many people in business point to systematic inequality as a vulnerability that contributed to the economic weakness in

Distance and Presence

May 31st, 2020 49m 7s

How can business establish a presence in the marketplace in a time defined by social distance? How can we show up to work when our physical absence is mandatory? This episode considers the conflict in business culture between the urgency of pre

Symbolic Improvisation

May 22nd, 2020 55m 44s

The disorientation and liminal experience of the COVID-19 crisis brings business culture to opportunities for symbolic improvisation. Will businesses learn to play with these ideas, or resort to the solid and stolid data of literal truth?

The Ritual Threshold of COVID-19

May 13th, 2020 48m 49s

The coronavirus pandemic has opened up a strange experience, something anthropologists call the liminal sphere. It's an alternative frame of reality that operates by its own rules. Can business learn to harness the power of ritual without resur

Finding Direction in Disorientation

May 7th, 2020 1h 31m

The challenge isn't merely that the COVID-19 crisis puts businesspeople in a situation in which their knowledge is inadequate.The disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic are warping the fundamental dimensions in which business operates, resulti

Bonus

Supplemental: The Research Method

May 5th, 2020 1m 48s

The Business in the Time of Coronavirus research was never intended to be objective. It's a cultural study, so it's inherently subjective. This podcast supplemental episode explains the method of this qualitative research and some of its flaws.

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Supplemental: About the Researcher

Apr 30th, 2020 11m 24s

In order to understand the study that forms the foundation of the Beyond Back to Normal podcast, you need to understand me, the researcher. Why? This research wasn’t done by a machine. I make no pretense about it being an objective work of scie

What Do We Know?

Apr 28th, 2020 47m 31s

One of the themes that stands out immediately in this research is that people in business feel like they don’t know very much about what’s happening in this crisis. The threat of coronavirus is real, but it’s invisible. We can’t quite tell wher

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Beyond Back to Normal Trailer

Apr 23rd, 2020 2m 57s

1 month ago, as the COVID-19 shutdown reached a global scale, I began a study of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the culture of business. The results of this research will be explored in a weekly podcast, called Beyond Back to Normal, b

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