Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

People-watching in the workplace

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Karen Bridbord is the author of a new book, The Relationship-Driven Leader that invites us to bring a psychologist's lens to our job and the relati...

What Gen Z need from work

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gen Z have been shaped by recessions, the pandemic, geopolitical instability, not to mention financial insecurity and world changing technology.That's...

Is training really corporate sludge?

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most company training is a waste of time that turns firms into bureaucratic sludge holes. That’s roughly the conclusion of today’s episode which i...

Strong team identity delivers success

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Holt is a psychologist and leadership coach who has spent more than 20 years helping teams get better. Read his research about better team resu...

To understand leadership, you need to understand identity

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second part of an interview with Professor Alex Haslam, the world's leading voice on the study of social identity.You can hear the first p...

Everything is identity

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Why are we so fixated on the individual self? I think it was a big con. The individual self is a relatively modern invention. The idea that human p...

We need to tackle workplace loneliness

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Gilbody talks loneliness at workThe Loneliness of the American Worker - Wall Street JournalMake Work Better on lonelinessMore on solving lonelin...

Delivering culture through food

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This sponsored episode is brought to you by Deliveroo for WorkSpencer Walker is the global director of Deliveroo for Work.The podcast has returned sev...

RTO mandates are caused by middle aged men not liking their wives

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Delighted to post this small conversation with Nick Shackleton-Jones. Nick posts brilliantly witty rants on TikTok that are just the best things I hea...

What gives a team the 'collective edge'?

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we shifted our focus from the individual to the collective how different would our results at work be?I'm joined by Colin Fisher who explains that ...

How behavioural psychology is shaping workspace

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a while since I revisited a conversation on offices and how our physical workspaces are evolving. Disruption has made the property busines...

Our personalities are changing, will it ruin work?

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last month the FInancial Times published an article by John Burn Murdoch in the form of an analysis of personality data, specifically looking at what ...

Did we do Big Ange dirty?

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterA couple of years ago, I was surrounded with so many happy Spurs fans that I bought into the euphoric buzz they were giving ...

How Octopus Energy used culture to reach the top

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m often asked asked which company cultures I admire, especially as I tend to be critical of the culture inside tech firms. It’s easy to have ...

Getting to grips with workplace AI

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode this month about AI and the implications for our jobs.Two weeks ago I went along to a huge event run by Workday down in Nor...

What does it mean for culture when 'intelligence is on tap'?

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the newsletterFirst of two episodes going deep on how AI is going to impact work - and therefore workplace culture and dynamics.This week i...

Time to chase Calendar Zero

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"There's this concept called inbox zero, where everyone tries to get to their inbox down to zero. But I would suggest that a more noble pursuit is tha...

The best culture book of 2025: The Power of Mattering

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Zach Mercurio’s new book, The Power of Mattering, arrived on my desk I devoured it. It’s the most essential book about workplace culture...

Meaning: why showing work matters has such an impact

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The next two podcasts I see as a piece with each other, today is about meaning the next one is about mattering. Collectively I feel they present serio...

Great culture starts with teams

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterSomeone posted on LinkedIn that the podcast had died. Or I had died. But he is risen! I'm back with a great discussion, powe...

PING! How to cope with communication overload

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join 100,000 other workplace culture enthusiasts by signing up for the Make Work Better newsletterInterested in how skills could enhance your business...

The Careers Collective - what's next for work?

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Interested in how skills could enhance your business? Check out the short film I made with the Department for Education.Sign up for the newsletterToda...

Turning your team into a tribe

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Morris's book Tribal covers the codes that bond humans together. It has been shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year awa...

Outrage in the work chat

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everywhere we look we see someone who is outraged - and plenty of that anger makes its way to the workplace. The last time President Trump was in powe...

Transformational cultures use the manager as a coach

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterTiffany Gaskell outlines coaching as a route to transformational leadershipTiffany Gaskell is the co-author of Coaching for ...

How Intel fixed work and then threw it away

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Subscribe to the free Make Work Better newsletterBrigid Schulte is a journalist and writer who brings a reporter's ear for stories to her exploration ...

TOXIC: When good cultures go bad

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Ellis is a consultant and author who spends his time working with organisations to improve their culture. He's turned his attention to why some ...

"Help: my team doesn't feel connected any more"

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterHow can any of us build a more effective team?Owen Eastwood is one of the world’s most in demand performance coaches, with...

Should we focus on making workers happy?

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletterHow important is a happy workforce? According to Mark Price, the former boss of Waitrose, it's the main thi...

Presence: 'Yes and...' - how the secrets of improv can teach us about work

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your officeYou might think an episode about impr...

Presence: Fish! Time to revisit a culture classic?

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your officeIn the 2000s a book called Fish! A re...

Presence: exploring real life culture rituals

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your officeThis is the second episode about ritu...

Presence: our rituals show what matters to us

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your officeKursat Ozenc is a product designer wh...

Presence: Presence starts with positive leadership

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Flow is the state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.”Presen...

“Workers watch your feet, not your lips” - changing culture at scale

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To receive the newsletter and the forthcoming Presence project sign-up hereToday’s top episode goes to the heart of an issue that a lot of people ra...

The future of work? "The manager as a therapist"

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Isabel Berwick is a writer and podcaster who focusses on the evolving state of modern work. I’ve celebrated her podcast Working It many times here (...

Getting real with Employee Experience

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How should most of us think about the differences between Employee Experience and Employee Engagement.I first spoke to Emma Bridger, who is the author...

Better conversations, better relationships

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Duhigg’s bestseller The Power of Habit was the definitive guide to building and sustaining successful habits.His new book, Supercommunicator...

Do bonuses actually make us work harder?

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us have worked in environments that provided bonuses or rewards for success. Maybe they took the form of team rewards or individual incentives...

Workchat: workplace culture has never been more complicated

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week's Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.Roll up roll up as this week we talk the major trends in ...

Can better culture improve the results of an NHS Trust?

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I was flattered to be invited to visit the NHS trust of Barking, Havering and Redbridge last year. I spent an afternoon meeting the team and seeing th...

Building Trust at Work: Trends for 2024

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We often overlook the fact that trust is the basis for all good culture. I called out some of the remarkable data on this in the Work In 2024 deck.In ...

Helping the accidental manager: Trends for work

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The role of managers are pivotal in our working lives but most managers aren't trained or prepared for the responsibilities that they are given.When w...

WorkChat: Should part-time workers have to give up on ambition?

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook. Sign up to the newsletterWe talk through the hottest topics in work:Ne...

The single thing that every organisation should do to fix culture

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Frances Frei is the biggest brain in the field of workplace culture and I was delighted to get another opportunity to talk to her.She explai...

Is toxic culture driving your team away?

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is toxic culture driving your team away?If you’re someone whose job it is think about culture, or maybe you’re a boss who has tried to communicate...

WorkChat: are you ready to declare your workplace relationships?

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook. Sign up to the newsletterThis week we go deep on the latest news about...

WorkChat: Is work heading for a freelance future?

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook. Sign up to the newsletterThis week we go deep on the latest news abo...

I’m loving Big Ange instead

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterWhat Ange Postecoglou changed at Spurs in his first 100 days: ‘The mood has been transformed’Charlie writes about the or...

Psychological safety - setting the record straight

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook. Ellen is away this week - we were working hard to squeeze an elite g...

The surprising importance of FUN in productive work

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletterThis episode explores the concept of fun and its importance in adult life, challenging the misperception th...

WorkChat: Hang on, was the office stressing us out all along?

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletterEat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.Ellen wrote about her lear...

The world's best performance coach explains how he transforms teams

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’m joined again by new cohosts Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook.Buy BelongingOwen Eastwood is the most in-demand team performance coach in the worldH...

WorkChat: a broader perspective on work starts here

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A few months ago I put out a call asking for other voices to get involved in the podcast and I’m delighted today to add Ellen C Scott and Matthew Co...

FIXED WITH INTRO How to build a truly engaged team

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry for duplicate - the previous version had no intro!If you liked this I actually shared a lot of the data on the newsletter a couple of weeks ago ...

How to build a truly engaged team

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you liked this I actually shared a lot of the data on the newsletter a couple of weeks ago - read that here.Today's episode is an in depth explorat...

Is the 4 day week a cult that we can all get behind?

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex's book: Work less, do moreMake Work Better newsletter covered the 4 day week trials For today’s episode I went to meet Alex Soujung Kim Pang. A...

AI and work...it's imminent

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletterWe’re in a stage place with AI right now where for most of us it’s still a parlour trick. Something that we’ve seen cr...

Making the Case for Good Jobs

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zeynep Ton is the author of the Good Jobs Strategy - which holds the honour of being the book I refer to the most when it comes to talking about work....

The Importance of Touch

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you touch starved? Do you feel a touch hunger in your life?Michael Banissy is a psychologist whose work focusses on the importance of physical con...

What *is* the future of work? A discussion with Dror Poleg

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An episode today that is a reflection on where work is going and what implications there are for cities, for workers and for life. Dror Poleg is ...

Curiosity, creativity and AI

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s discussion should land you right in the sweetspot of thinking about AI for your own job by taking a step back, by asking yourself how you ca...

Is Work Destined For Generational Discord?

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter Ellen Scott is the deputy digital editor of Stylist and someone who has achieved recognition for havi...

Brains, hormones and time - the invisible causes of better workplace culture

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are there forces at work that might impact the way work feels? Could we use those forces to make work better?This discussion with Robin Dunbar and Tra...

Fixing work's people problem(s)

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is a discussion with Amy Gallo. During the pandemic I had a wonderful discussion about work and where it was going and I was delight...

Inside the ideas factory - demystifying creativity

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy shares his: free bonus chapterJeremy Utley leads some of the most popular courses on creativity and innovation at the d.school of Stanford Univ...

Rory Sutherland explores Fortitude

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to hear more about Radix Big TentRory Sutherland is one of the most respected brains in the advertising industry, a man whose early endorsemen...

'Wednesday plus one' & the 4-day week

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of discussion right now about firms trying to kick start their workplace culture. I wanted to explore conversations with leaders who were leading...

We've never needed stories more - a masterclass by a story coach from The Moth

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Come along to one of my free events in SeptemberWe all tell stories all of the time, but what makes a magical, memorable story? What pitfalls should w...

Professor Sophie Scott takes us into the brain

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Sophie Scott is the UK's most recognisable neuroscientist, famed for her passion and her ability to excite interest in a complex field. Her ...

"Men have no friends and women bear the burden”

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of my favourite podcasts have gone on summer break, so I wanted to keep putting some episodes out. But maybe you don't want something that is too...

Abandoning offices - not so fast!

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To find out more about the workplace culture course go to the website or the book page.After recent episodes have made a case that the office might be...

The internet's favourite chart makers get emotional

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a user of social media, whether Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn you'll have seen the work of today's guest.Sign up for the free Winning Workp...

Community: how a table changed a culture

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A wonderful discussion that I think has got immense to richness to it. I chat to the boss of St John's Ambulance Martin Houghton-Brown (Martin on Twit...

Fortitude, Winning Workplace Culture and the Future Forum

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two things on the podcast today - at the end of the episode there is a discussion with former guest, Brian Elliott from Slack's Future Forum.Ahead of ...

Are we in denial? is Work From Anywhere our destiny?

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“There are two kinds of companies: One is going to embrace work-from-anywhere, and the second is in denial — I feel those companies will lose thei...

Dan Coyle can fix your culture

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you find yourself becoming interested in the magic of workplace culture one of the go to authors of the subject is today's guest, Dan Coyle.Dan's 2...

The world's WFH expert is confident for offices

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're going deeper into the evidence today with two brilliant guests. Anne Raimondi is COO of Asana who were smart enough to have started a major piec...

Understanding the status game of work

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Status is a fundamental need for humans.Such a fascinating discussion today. I recently read Will Storr's brilliant book The Status Game and was so ta...

Can organisations repair toxic culture? Two experts say how they would fix the Met Police

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is greatly enhanced by reading the newsletter that comes with it. In today’s podcast I talk to two guests who have slightly different p...

An eye-opening perspective from inside commercial real estate

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caleb Parker is one of the most intelligent commentators on the future of our workplaces (Twitter, his website) and this conversation with him did not...

Home/Hub/Hybrid - How Lloyds Bank are creating workplace 'pull'

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last year I did a few episodes looking to see how firms were tackling the return to the office (the return to work - THE PLACE) but they were all smal...

Redesigning work with Lynda Gratton

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Lynda Gratton is one of the world's leading experts on business and the future of work. She's on speed dial with the top CEOs and is a regul...

Clear thinking for 2022

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two outstanding conversations trying to make sense of what is happening around work. Firstly I chat to Brian Elliott who leads the Future Forum, a gro...

The UK's top careers coaches want to solve your job worries

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 As we start a new year considerations about the jobs we do have never been more prominent. One headline this year has already suggested that up ...

Reflecting on how we use our phones in 2022

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-order DisconnectedAt this time of year I find myself listening to more podcasts I’ve released two episodes this week. One is a truly brilliant d...

Workplace culture: being nice isn't enough

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How did thinking about workplace culture increase the profitability of firms?I was doing some thinking for some businesses over the last few weeks and...

Will loneliness kill remote work cultures? With Noreena Hertz

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last few weeks the newsletters that have achieved the most resonance were related to having a friend at work. For many of us our favourite jo...

The Future Office

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What can we learn about what is going to happen next with work by chatting to the leaders of the sector that supplies our workplaces? You might think ...

Beating the To Do List

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Burkeman was a productivity geek. He was the guy trying to get it all done. He was that person, convinced he could optimise living to get the m...

Our work went fully remote - Ask Me Anything!

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up for the newsletter Over the last few weeks I've been intrigued with the firms who have chosen to bite the bullet and ditch their office. What ...

How to tell if your boss is a narcissist

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can we use the power of psychotherapy to help us in our jobs? A brilliant discussion with psychotherapist Naomi Shragai where we talk about how he...

The Power of Us

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is one for those who have an appetite for psychology. It is by two authors of a brand new book that I was interested to check out be...

The importance of company values - James Kerr talks Legacy

14 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join the discussion on the newsletterThis is the first of two read-alongs in August. Stacks of listeners and newsletter subscribers are reading along ...

No Opting Out - The Realities of Politics in the workplace

11 May 2021

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Sign up for the free newsletterDoes political discourse have a place in the workplace? What is going on Basecamp? A truly dazzling discussion with Meg...

Amazon: creating the 'invention machine' culture

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon announced its earnings last week - and saw its share price hit a record high. Announcing that they’d surpassed 200 million Prime members was ...

Should we use the restart for a reset?

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week I chat to Elizabeth Uviebinené, Financial Times columnist and the iconic author of Slay in Your Lane about her new book The Reset. With Sla...

Rutger Bregman is hopeful for humankind

20 Apr 2021

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Sign up for the newsletterRutger Bregman’s Humankind was my favourite book of 2020 and it comes out in paperback next month. A brilliant read (that ...

Perspectives on the work to come

13 Apr 2021

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Sign up for the newsletterTwo discussions today about big stories in the news. Firstly I chat to senior features writer at The Economist about his bri...

It's time to kick bias out of your work

04 Apr 2021

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Sign up for the newsletterKim Scott is the straight talking author of the phenomenal hit Radical Candour. Now she's back with a huge new book that's s...