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Process Debt

Podcast by Chris Terrell

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About Process Debt

What is Process Debt?The hidden burden of inefficient processes that erode growth, employee satisfaction, and organizational successWe all have a little 'process debt' in our lives and careers. In our podcast, "Process Debt," we explore the daily challenges and frustrations with the hidden systems that steal joy from our work. From personal anecdotes to professional insights, join us for insights you can used to start changing those those broken business systems.

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episode Coaching Trees, Corruption Trees, and the People Debt You Can't See on a Dashboard artwork

Coaching Trees, Corruption Trees, and the People Debt You Can't See on a Dashboard

Why do some managers keep producing great leaders — and others just keep producing turnover? In this episode of Process Debt, Chris and Toby dig into the concept of the coaching tree: how legendary coaches (and managers) pass down not just skills, but standards, culture, and ways of moving through the work. They also explore the darker flip side — the corruption tree — and why most organizations accidentally reward the people who start fires over the people who quietly prevent them. If you've ever worked for someone who made you better, or for someone who made everyone around them worse, this one will name something you've felt but never had a word for. Topics include: why great managers are invisible until it's too late, the "arsonist" pattern in business leadership, psychological safety as a precondition for any real process improvement, and what a coaching tree actually has to do with process debt. Practical, honest, and zero Six Sigma required.

Yesterday - 21 min
episode AI Didn't Get Rolled Out. It Seeped In (And That's the Problem) artwork

AI Didn't Get Rolled Out. It Seeped In (And That's the Problem)

AI showed up in your tools without a kickoff meeting, a training plan, or anyone's approval. And now it's quietly changing how your team works whether you've sanctioned it or not. In this episode, we dig into what makes this adoption moment different from every SaaS rollout you've survived before. We look at a dead-simple three-gate framework from change management researchers at Prosci — should this task be done by a human, by a human with AI, or by AI alone — and why that question is harder to answer than it sounds. We also get into the economics nobody in consulting wants to discuss out loud: when AI compresses a 10-hour job into one hour, where does that value actually go? And what happens to the organizations quietly accumulating AI-assisted process debt while nobody's watching? No hype. No predictions about AGI. Just an honest conversation about what it looks like when a technology seeps into your organization before you've decided what to do with it.

8 May 2026 - 20 min
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More Data, Less Value

What happened to the news when it went 24 hours? It stopped being news and became entertainment — because you can't fill that much airtime with signal. Process Debt is about what happened when businesses did the same thing to their data. You bought the software. You built the dashboards. You connected the integrations. And now you have more information than ever — and somehow fewer clear answers. Hosts Chris Terrell and Toby Lucich of Magic Button Labs have a name for the compounding cost of that gap: process debt. It's what builds up when you skip the workflow design, rush the rollout, or build reporting that serves management politics instead of the people actually doing the work. It's why your CRM has five pipeline stages nobody uses. It's why the monday.com [http://monday.com] status column is always blank. It's why the dashboard refreshes every 15 minutes and nobody looks at it. Each week, Chris and Toby dig into a different flavor of process debt — from SaaS implementation failures and over-engineered reporting culture to the organizational habits that make good tools go bad. The conversations are plain-English, occasionally irreverent, and stubbornly focused on what actually changes outcomes versus what just looks busy. What you won't find here: breathless coverage of the next productivity tool, Six Sigma theory disconnected from real software, or the kind of vendor content that can't admit the tool isn't the problem. What you will find: honest takes for the operations manager, COO, RevOps lead, or "glue person" at a 50–500 person company who's serious about making their systems actually work inside monday.com [http://monday.com], HubSpot, Asana, Salesforce, ClickUp, Notion, and beyond. Because more data isn't the same as better information. And better is always better. New episodes every week.

1 May 2026 - 20 min
episode The James Patterson Principle: Why Your Legal Pad Might Be Your Best Productivity Tool artwork

The James Patterson Principle: Why Your Legal Pad Might Be Your Best Productivity Tool

James Patterson has written 285 books. He's 79 years old, lived through every major writing technology shift of the last half-century, and still drafts every novel with a pen and a yellow legal pad. In this episode, Chris and Toby dig into what Patterson's stubbornly old-school process reveals about the rest of us the ones constantly chasing the next AI tool, the shinier PowerPoint template, the newer productivity hack. They get into the difference between activity and outcome, why productivity has tripled since the seventies while wages have barely moved, and how the "let's change it" impulse quietly runs most organizations into the ground. Along the way: the ego trap of handing your work over to AI, why accounting is the only function that doesn't reinvent itself every quarter, and the thought experiment that could cut your process debt in half — only implement changes you're willing to stick with for a full year. It's a conversation about craft, consistency, and the unsexy truth that the things that actually work tend to be the things we've been doing all along.

24 Apr 2026 - 22 min
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