The Busyness Paradox
By Frank and Paul
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The world of work is a world of paradox. In this podcast, we tackle your everyday workplace or office environment topics, challenges, or activities. We also discuss trends and strategy in business. Our end goal is to help managers stamp out bad practices and help employees deal with them. Drs. Frank Butler and Paul Harvey, two management professors, co-host this podcast. We encourage your participation in our podcast by asking questions or sharing your experiences with us.
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Semantically Empty: Corporate BS and the Paradox of Sounding Smart
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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AI in HR: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Live from SMA)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Free Bagels Won’t Fix It: Why Gen Z Hates Work
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Return to Office: Bagels, Spreadsheets, and the Productivity Pendulum
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Beyond the Bill: Tipping Trends and Research Revelations
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Kneeling at the Altar of Busyness
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Why Not Win? A Discussion with Larry Thornton and Dave Ketchen
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The Paradox of Fearing Change
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Mo' Money, Mo' Busywork
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May 31, 2023 |
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Artificial Work Meets Artificial Intelligence
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Who’s The Real Time Thief?
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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When Working Hard Looks Like Hardly Working
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Excessively Lean: When a Lack of Slack Bites You in the Back
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Unions, Strikes, and Your Rights with Dan Gilmore
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Repressing Workers With Busywork
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Let's Get Down(sized)!
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Striking Back: Protecting Your Paycheck When Your Job Goes Off The Rails
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Quiet Quitting Quagmire
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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People Don't Want to Work (for you) Anymore!
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Charlotte Lockhart and the 4-Day Week
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Expanding the Compressed Workweek
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Busy Signals
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Time For Niksen (not that Nixon)
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May 18, 2022 |
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WFH is Dead! Long Live WFH!
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Resigners' Regrets
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Calling Out Kardashian
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Optimal Busyness? Let's Ask An Expert
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Untangling the Paradox of The Busyness Paradox
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Billion-Dollar Bonus Beatdown: More Breaking News!
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Inflation and the Paradoxical Pay Raise
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Lead People, Manage Things: The Curt Tueffert Interview
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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The Year of Gettin' S**T Done
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Broken Bones Break Logic In Breaking News
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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When The Boss Burns Out
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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The 15-Hour Workweek
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Boring Job Burnout
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Much Ado About WUSI
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Twice The Work In Half The Hours: The Dual-Career Individual
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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The Paranormal Paradox: Managing the Undead
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Nixing Busywork With Niksen
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Fired By Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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The Efficiency Paradox
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Take Some Time Off, You Slacker
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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We’ve Got Cox!
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Perception, deception, or misconception?
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Shady Statistics and the Status Quo
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Take This Job and Shove It
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Couch or Cubicle?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Who You Callin' WUSI?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Show Crap Jobs Some Love
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May 27, 2021 |
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We Put the Cult in Culture
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May 13, 2021 |
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Technology and Productivity: An Insider's Perspective
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Frank & Paul Get Schooled
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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The Four-Day Work Week
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 2)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency (Part 1)
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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BS Jobs
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Margin of Error: When Good Polling Goes Bad
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Chasing Productivity & Creativity in WFH
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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MBA: Masters of Busyness Administration?
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Are You Too Good at Your Job?
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Busyness and the 40 hour work week
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Introduction to the Busyness Paradox
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Nov 13, 2020 |