Practice? Podcast
“Theory and practice” is a common phrase. We've seen a lot of writing on theory, but what about that other word? Peter calls it "the dark matter of the social sciences" - Practice. It applies to pencil-pushing, educating, heart surgery, sailing, golfing, and anything you can do with purpose. Peter and Dave take you into a world of thought that couples work and play, purpose and routine, life and legacy. In a world of white-water, On Practice is the raft.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Episode 301: Episode 284 - Whitewater Kyacking is His Element (David Silk)
My friend and co-author Peter B. Vaill told us in his 1989 book, Managing as a Performing Art, to be ready to practice in permanent white water. David Silk kayaks daily in white waters raging in rive…
00:31:08 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Episode 300: Episode 283 - Their Idea is now Maine's Morning Moose Coffee
Richmond, Maine sisters Olivia and Elsie Winokurzew drew upon lessons from their leadership experiences at Starbucks to create their own coffee and donut business, which was needed in their hometown.…
00:36:34 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Episode 299: Episode 282 - How Cognition is Enacted in Practice and Conversation
Dave leads me through a process to understand understanding itself. What happens in real-time moments of cognition. is comprised of 6 E's, enacted, embodied, embedded, extended, emotional and exacti…
01:17:35 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Episode 298: Episode 281 - Human Intelligence Thrives in Her Company (Jessica Rich)
"High Tech. Human Touch" is a logo of Walker Group led by co-CEO Jessica Rich. Dave knows human intelligence thrives there, even as they know and apply AI, because Walker Group is a registered Benefi…
00:33:21 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Episode 297: Episode 280 - Exploring the Physics of Socially Enacted Practices
Dave, Jr., and I had another conversation to discuss more dimensions of how information and practice in social behavior is not abstract but rooted in the real dynamics of physics, even at the quantum…
01:14:08 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Episode 296: Episode 279 - Leading is Making and Offering Meaning (John Varney)
Dave meets a contemporary who thinks alike about the nature of leading as practice. John Varney founded the Centre for Management Creativity and High Trenhouse and the author of Leadership as Meaning…
00:53:00 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Episode 295: Episode 278 - We Each Have an Origin Story Informing our Practices (Kim Byas)
Dave becomes acquainted with Dr. Kim Byas, who, among his several current endeavors, including Vice President of Community Engagement and Impact at The Center for Health Affairs, is a member of the C…
00:44:31 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Episode 294: Episode 277 - Spirit at Work Guides Her Doctoral Practice (Kyndra Frazier)
Dave introduces Kyndra Frazier, a doctoral student studying Organization Development and Change at Bowling Green University. She is well into her career as a pastor, social worker, and consultant and…
00:36:44 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
Episode 293: Episode 276 - Her Genealogy Practice Grows with Her
Dave discovered that his versatile friend from 'way back' practices genealogy as an avocation. Barbara MacDonald Saabye, a fellow graduate of the Portland, Maine Deering High School Class of 1961, te…
00:37:17 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
Episode 292: Episode 275 - Two Practices Merge to Form a New Firm (Pam Potanka and John Kelly)
Dave reconnects with his former student, Pam Potanka, to learn she is joining her former colleague, John Kelly, to blend their advanced managerial leadership practices to create a custom recruitment …
00:47:12 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
Episode 291: Episode 274 - Offer the Predicate. Their is little choice otherwise (Tom Casey)
Dave reconnects with Discussion Partner Collaborative Managing Principal Tom Casey to learn what his research tells senior leaders they are facing ahead in our time's raging Practice white waters. Vi…
01:06:07 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Episode 290: Episode 273 - Dave and Dad on Relevance Realization in Practice
Dave adds to our deep dive for the closest look so far at the socially-enacted nature of Practice, the ideas of philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vernaecke.; Relevance Realization in particul…
01:06:41 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
Episode 289: Episode 272 - Dave and Dad Bring Complexity into the Picture
Dave Jr. and his dad resume their exploration of social enaction and Practice by delving into Ralph Stacey's theories on complex responsive processes. Reading Stacey's books caused Dave to make a ma…
00:49:41 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Episode 287: Episode 14 - (Reprised) Practice is a Central Organizing Principle
I move past 12 and 13 to reprise this Episode 14 as the last one before I resume new podcasting. Peter gives us the "why" of our and your attention to Practice. It organizes what we think about our P…
00:54:31 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
Episode 286: Episode 11 (Reprised) Is the sole purpose of leading change? Peter Vaill says so
Change makes the leader, and leading makes the change. Peter and Dave, co-authors of On Practice as a Way of Being, talk about leading as a dynamic practice available to anyone, at any moment, to mak…
00:40:51 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Episode 285: Episode 10 (Reprised) All of Us Have Practices of Something
Peter and Dave continue their conversation probing the developmental nature of Practice. Episode 10 was recorded in 2019 as they collaborated on what became Peter's last book - On Practice as a Way o…
00:37:08 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Episode 284: Episode 9 (Reprised) Increasingly, Consistenly Produce Intended Results
Dave and Peter deepened their thinking about practice, introduced in their digital book On Practice as a Way of Being. Over time, intended results teach practitioners what works and why. The payoff …
00:42:01 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
Episode 283: Episode 8 (Reprised) Digitizing Your Practices is Inevitable
Peter and Dave recorded in 2021. Peter predicted that digitizing our work and its context was accelerating. Today, Artificial Intelligence applications abound. Their book On Practice as a Way of Bein…
00:49:51 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
Episode 282: Episode 7 (Reprised) - We Practice in a Socio-Technical Swirl
Dave and Peter examine their conjecture in On Practice as a Way of Being, that there is a dynamic interflow of social and technical conditions. Four years later, AI technologies are mimicking human-s…
00:39:06 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Episode 281: Episode 6 (Reprise) - Peter and Dave Talk About 'Learning in the Mess".
This episode was initially recorded in late 2019, just as COVID invaded our lives and livelihoods. Then and now, it is a question of our desire and ability to learn as beginners. Change is changing.…
00:33:47 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
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