Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Robin Dunbar makes the case for human connection

30 Mar 2021

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Sign up for the newsletter What a guest today. I've tried to speak to Professor Robin Dunbar for 4 or 5 years.Robin has a new book out called Friends ...

Scott Galloway rips work a new one

18 Mar 2021

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A recording of a Twitter Spaces discussion with Scott Galloway. We talk remote working, why cities will never die, why working hard is Scott's top car...

Can you imagine your job without email or Zoom?

24 Feb 2021

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Buy A World Without EmailI’ve talked a lot about Cal Newport’s provocations about abolishing email (and Zoom calls) [find them here and here]. And...

Conflicted: Is there a route to better disagreement at work?

06 Feb 2021

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Pre-order Conflicted now - available from 18th FebYou can also read Ian's post on Paul McCartney that I mentioned on the show and follow him on Twitte...

The surprising root of resilience

26 Jan 2021

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The guest this episode is Dr Damian Scarf, he teaches at the University of Otago in New Zealand. I saw him do a short and impactful TED talk: Dr Damia...

Our Coworking Future?

10 Jan 2021

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Sign for the newsletterWhat's going to happen with our workplaces.Today the theme is how, if we're not careful the way that we're using our workplaces...

Amy Gallo on resetting norms in 2021

02 Jan 2021

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Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletterThere is no better guest to kick off 2021 than Amy Gallo.Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Busi...

Live Laugh Work - understanding humour at work

27 Dec 2020

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Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter.How the heck did we end up thinking that humour and serious work are in opposition to each other?Today's g...

Seth Godin can make *YOU* creative

13 Dec 2020

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Sign up for the newsletterSeth Godin has cracked the secret of how to make you more creative. And the good news is that everyone can do it. He was so ...

GCHQ: Working inside intelligence

30 Nov 2020

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Sign up for the newsletterThere was an incredible response to the episode with Chris hayward last week. I know that Chris was really touched with the ...

When everything gets too much - mental health & work

23 Nov 2020

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WARNING: INCLUDES THEMES OF SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION"I walked up and down Tottenham Court Road looking for a lorry to throw myself under"An episode goin...

Understanding the brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett

16 Nov 2020

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Sign up for the newsletterToday's episode is for anyone who is curious about how human's tick. Work ultimately is a practice of the brain and how our ...

Making the world (of work) happier: Mo Gawdat

09 Nov 2020

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What a truly wonderful conversation you're about to listen to today. Mo Gawdat is an expert on happiness and today's episode is a combination of philo...

Community 4: A champion community builder shares her advice

19 Oct 2020

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"When I moved to New York City, I realised what it meant to be truly lonely for the first time. I had no consistent community — people who would won...

Community 3: How our rituals can forge our culture

12 Oct 2020

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Sign up for the newsletter.We're at part 3 of our series about community at work.Today's guest is one of the most respected community thinkers in the ...

Community 2: A Community Manager Speaks Truth

05 Oct 2020

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Today's episode is a further exploration of how firms will try to evolve their culture by hiring Community Managers. If you've not listened to last we...

Community 1: "HR has fallen"

29 Sep 2020

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Sign up for the Eat Sleep Work Repeat newsletter here.New podcast today - the first of four podcasts about what’s next with work - specifically how ...

Burnout - understanding the other epidemic

10 Sep 2020

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Can't Even can be ordered nowAHP's original article in BuzzfeedAHP's newsletter is hereLast year Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article about burnou...

The big return 3: a closer look at data

07 Sep 2020

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Subscribe to the newsletterToday's interviewees: Bhushan Sethi leads PwC's workplace strategy business and Ben Waber is the CEO of workplace analytics...

Gary Hamel: Battling bureaucracy - the big fix for broken work

18 Aug 2020

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I was fortunate to speak to Gary Hamel about his forthcoming new book, Humanocracy.He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) t...

The big return 2: but what are other firms doing?

14 Aug 2020

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Subscribe to the newsletterWhat are other firms doing about returning to work? How can any of us work out the right thing to do? I chat to 4 more firm...

The big return 1: making the call on what to do next

11 Aug 2020

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Subscribe to the newsletterHere's Dan's tweets that started this conversation.Today's episode is first of two episodes about the big return to work. I...

Building resilience - understanding the human impact of work

07 Jul 2020

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"We think people want to be liked, but they need to be needed".A thoroughly stimulating discussion here - that I've allowed to run long because it's s...

What's the value of an office?

30 Jun 2020

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"Tuesday and Thursday, see you there. BOOM!"A lot of us are starting to long for human contact again and the office feels like a happy place to be. Bu...

Fewer predictions, more experiments - what's next with work?

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Firstly a conversation with David D'Souza the membership director of CIPD (incidentally is a fantastic Twitter follow).David talks about the choices a...

Reinventing work: why you need to understand the 'self other overlap'

08 Jun 2020

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Subscribe to the Make Work Better mailoutI'm so excited about what is in the next few episodes. This is a short series of episodes about what we're ab...

Feeling ok - understanding work & stress

21 May 2020

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Subscribe to the Make Work Better mailoutSubscribe to Your Table's Ready PodcastVaried episode today, firstly for Mental Health Awareness week, two me...

The world's top culture doctor: Professor Frances Frei talks Uber, WeWork & more

06 May 2020

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If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comI've been chasing this conversation for over 2 years...

Beating burnout - learning from the YouTuber experience with Arron Crascall & Elle Mills

28 Apr 2020

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If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comRecorded live at Vidcon 2020As we sit in a strange p...

Diversity and creative thinking - the power of rebel ideas (with Matthew Syed)

15 Apr 2020

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If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comThis episode is about the power of diverse thinking....

Work Undone: what happens now? A discussion with Prof Dan Cable

23 Mar 2020

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"Purpose is something that can be found but cannot be given"For this episode I talk with London Business School professor Dan Cable about what work is...

A career of kindness - Christie Watson on nurse's lives

19 Mar 2020

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You can talk about this episode - and more - on our new forum.Well what a strange time we’re living through. I don’t what I can say that hasn’t ...

Inside the 4 day week

10 Mar 2020

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Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now.Second episode on the 4 day week. We go deep with someone who made the 4 day ...

The 4 Day Revolution: Harder, better, faster, *shorter*

10 Mar 2020

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First of two new episodes on one theme. Until coronavirus swept the world the discussion of 2020 was about the future of work being based on working l...

Inside Microsoft's cultural reinvention

03 Mar 2020

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When the biggest company in the world slipped from its throne how did a new CEO try to rescue it using culture. What did Satya Nadella do? How did it ...

Why should anyone listen to you? The power of messengers

05 Feb 2020

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"We used to think 'the medium is the message', now we know that the messenger is the message".Stephen Martin was the co-writer of one of my favourite ...

Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton

29 Jan 2020

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Here he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He's sold millions of books...

What next in your career?

13 Jan 2020

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Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now.Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast...

Let's talk about flex... flexible working

06 Dec 2019

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Hot topic right now. Annie Auerbach talks about her way of working flexibly and explains how all of us could be living a life we love.Annie is the aut...

What's stopping you from doing your best work ever?

28 Oct 2019

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What's stopping you from you doing your best work ever? That's the question that Aaron Dignan (working at his culture consultancy, The Ready) asks the...

Talking teams - an interview with Pippa Grange - head of team & culture at the England football team

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at the Good Day at Work event in Manchester, hosted by Robertson Cooper.During the last World Cup, as we gradually started believing in the p...

Could Uber have won with a different culture?

30 Sep 2019

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Today’s episode is about Uber. Its based on a brilliant book that stacks of people have found themselves tearing through in one sitting over the las...

The lies we tell about work (interview with Marcus Buckingham)

16 Sep 2019

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If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comMarcus Buckingham is a research who has specialised ...

How silent meetings and 'Magic Time' could change your life

08 Sep 2019

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On this week's pod, David Gasca and Steven Rogelberg explain how you can fix your meetings to make work less miserable.Firstly David Gasca o...

Building Culture The Barcelona Way

23 Aug 2019

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In 2007 as Barcelona were looking to replace their manager they were faced with a difficult challenge. They decided if they were to move on with a str...

Inside the Liverpool culture of Jurgen Klopp

23 Aug 2019

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How did Jurgen Klopp build a culture that has caught the attention of everyone in sport. Including interviews with Klopp, Liverpool players and leadin...

Measuring the intelligence of teams

13 Jun 2019

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In 2015 Anita Williams Woolley and colleagues published some groundbreaking work understanding the 'collective intelligence' of teams.They asked 'can ...

Play: tales of success from an NHS hospital

22 Apr 2019

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A lot of people have asked me if I’m going to do an episode on the importance of play.One of the challenges of the word play is that its such a broa...

Culture and conditions under the radar - tales from the gig economy

15 Apr 2019

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James Bloodworth lived undercover working in Amazon warehouses, care homes and clocked up hours as an Uber driver to see the realities of modern work ...

Mental Health & Emotions - practical ways of fixing work

08 Apr 2019

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This week I talk to Josh Krichefski (CEO, Mediacom UK) and Liz Fosslien (co-author of No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed)...

Gender in the workplace - breaking the glass wall

01 Apr 2019

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What if the way we've created work was built around the things that men prefer. Sue Unerman makes the compelling case that the workplace has evolved t...

Jim Collins on making good culture great

18 Mar 2019

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Jim Collins is one of the most respected business writers in the world. With his books Good to Great and Made to Last he became the observer of great ...

Dave Trott on beating creative blindness (live from IAB Leadership Summit)

12 Mar 2019

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Dave Trott is a creative director, copywriter, and author. A colossus of advertising who has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award ...

Employee engagement // The secret of 'story night'

04 Mar 2019

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Today we’re chatting to the MD of the innovations company IDEO, Sue Siddall to hear how they bring the power of telling stories to life in their org...

Could laughter be the root of good culture?

17 Feb 2019

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If you’ve not already subscribed there’s a weekly email that goes out with the podcast. This week's includes a brilliant article on how small team...

Free extract of The Joy of Work

05 Feb 2019

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Thanks to Penguin Random House here's a free extract of a couple of different parts of The Joy of Work.You can buy the full audiobook here.:Sign up to...

Cal Newport preaches Digital Minimalism

28 Jan 2019

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This episode today is magnificent – you’re really going to be stimulated and challenged by it.Today’s episode is with someone I contacted 2 year...

Long hours and loneliness - fixing workplace misery

21 Jan 2019

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This is a podcast about making work better. You can find all of the previous episodes on the website.Here we go, two little things today to make you f...

Apps, algorithms and your next job

14 Jan 2019

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If you're looking to get a job sometime in the next decade - and that includes almost all of us - there's a very high probability that you're going to...

Evidence Based Management - Rob Briner

07 Jan 2019

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Buy The Joy of WorkFollow Rob BrinerSign up for Eat Sleep UpdatesRob Briner is an professor of organisational behaviour at London Queen Mary’s Unive...

Ideas, innovation & work (the police episode 2)

13 Dec 2018

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Pre-order The Joy of WorkFollow Stevyn ColganSign up for Eat Sleep UpdatesFollowing up the discussion with Andy Rhodes this week it's a second episode...

The police: decision making under pressure - life in a high stress job

11 Dec 2018

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Pre-order The Joy of WorkFollow Andy RhodesSign up for Eat Sleep UpdatesThis is the first of two episodes on the police this week. One on dealing with...

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

03 Dec 2018

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Pre-order The Joy of WorkFollow AdamSign up for Eat Sleep UpdatesWe’re talking work culture in different ways for the next few episodes. The next tw...

How painting the walls pink changed a culture

26 Nov 2018

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How can painting the walls of a company change their culture? We explore with Jez Groom today's guest.An episode this week on behavioural science. It ...

Seth Godin - reinvent your culture

13 Nov 2018

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(sound fixed) Seth Godin has been one of the world's freshest thinkers since before the internet was on solid food.After a first career packaging book...

Unlocking workplace creativity - Teresa Amabile

05 Nov 2018

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Contact the show [email protected] week's episode features the iconic Teresa Amabile - she's a professor at Harvard Business School.&n...

Alive at work - Dan Cable

22 Oct 2018

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Dan Cable is the author of the life affirming and brilliant Alive at Work - one of the most inspiring visions of what work could look like. The discus...

Jeffrey Pfeffer: Dying for a Paycheck

15 Oct 2018

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Today’s guest is regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world largely because he considers themes and human behaviours t...

The Good Jobs Strategy

08 Oct 2018

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Read more on the Good Jobs StrategyPre-order the Joy of WorkIf you like this the easiest way to get it is to subscribe on Apple podcasts - give us a r...

Adam Grant - Optimism about work culture

30 Sep 2018

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Professor Adam Grant is the most important business writer in the world - a man who says his study is focussing on how to make work suck less.Adam is ...

Testing the New Work Manifesto

02 Jul 2018

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Around 12 months ago myself and Sue Todd created the new work manifesto. It was an attempt to start the debate about simple things that we can change....

Bringing purpose and autonomy to work

19 Jun 2018

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Two practical case studies this week. Businesses who have pulled back the curtain to show how they brought Purpose and Autonomy to life. Brilliant exa...

Mental Health & Work - Emily Reynolds

04 Jun 2018

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I've wanted to do an episode on mental health for months. But to be honest I've felt really conscious of messing it up. I ended up chatting to the bes...

Making work more stimulating with side hustles - Emma Gannon

31 May 2018

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Lots of listeners have been hitting up my LinkedIn saying how can we make work better if we don't have a full-time permanent job. Emma Gannon might ha...

Does Company Culture Exist? Dr Richard Claydon

14 May 2018

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Quite a brainy episode today. Dr Richard Claydon is a someone who likes to question why we claim things - he's a natural challenger. He desc...

Inside the Brain - A Neuroscientist Explains

07 May 2018

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James Doty is a neuroscientist who has spent his career trying to demystify the power of the brain. He's a Clinical Professor of neurosurgery&nbs...

A Good Day at Work - Sir Cary Cooper

30 Apr 2018

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Sir Cary Cooper is a psychologist - 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the Manchester...

Being More Pirate

26 Apr 2018

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Sam Conniff Allende has spent his career building a youth marketing agency. Now he's concluded that the way to inspire younger workers is to channel t...

Bad bosses: what makes a good leader?

16 Apr 2018

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Dr Amanda Goodall is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Cass Business school. I don't normally do stuff on leaders. There's enough leader lit out ther...

Thought Leaders 2: Chris Barez Brown

09 Apr 2018

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Who's Elvis round here? There was a time when answering that question would have earned you a nice cheque from the National Enquirer.The second part o...

Thought Leaders 1: Tom Goodwin

09 Apr 2018

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Two episodes here listening to some of the people who are challenging, provoking and questioning the status quo.Tom Goodwin Exec VP at the media agenc...

Laughter - how to bring the LOLs back to the office

24 Mar 2018

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A brilliant live discussion from Ad Week Europe on the scientific value of laughter - and how to bring it back to work.Featuring Professor Sophie Scot...

Rituals, Emotions and food

19 Mar 2018

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Inside the rituals of two happy businesses. Over the last couple of months a few people have come up to me to tell me stories about things their compa...

The Culture Code - the best culture book of 2018

05 Feb 2018

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The Culture Code is the best book on work culture likely to be published this year. From Daniel Coyle author of the Talent Code, an international best...

Cracking the secret of when - Daniel Pink

01 Feb 2018

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When is your most creative time of the working day? When should you schedule your concentrated deep work? What the heck is a 'nappuccino' and what wil...

#MeToo & Work

16 Jan 2018

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As becoming increasingly clear the single biggest issue of work culture in the last 10 years has been the Me Too movement.Louise Ridley and Kirstie Br...

The New Work Manifesto

08 Jan 2018

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Over the last 35 episodes we've discussed improvements to work, now we bring them all together.In discussion with Sue Todd, CEO of Magnetic, we discus...

The Year in Work Culture with Andre Spicer

26 Dec 2017

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The dramas at Uber, the reckoning of the #MeToo movement, the BBC pay gap, Bruce is joined by Andre Spicer to debate the biggest work culture issues o...

Are the robots taking over? Matthew Taylor on the future of work

21 Dec 2017

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EAT SLEEP SHORT: Are the robots coming for your job? This year Matthew Taylor delivered a report to the Prime Minister looking at the future of work i...

Building teams with grit

20 Dec 2017

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Angela Duckworth's Grit was one of the most impactful business books of 2016.Here in an Eat Sleep short Angela talks about building resilient culture ...

Culture as the secret ingredient - Richard Reed and the Innocent story

12 Dec 2017

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Richard Reed was one the founders of Innocent - the most unlikely David taking on the Goliaths of the soft drinks business. With little more than a pe...

Beating Burnout - Managing Energy in the Email Age

04 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

VOLUME FIXEDDavid McClements is the founder of Whitewater international training & consultancy” (whitewaterint.com) . He works training and...

Bjarke Ingels - Cultural Architect

26 Nov 2017

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Bjarke Ingels is the number 1 architect in the world. His buildings are taking the world by storm with their fearless disregard for the conventions an...

Data on how offices work

21 Nov 2017

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Ben Waber is the CEO of Humanyze, a firm that spun pioneering work from MIT into the world's leading people analytics business. Their technology can t...

Remote: Control?

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Fried - at Basecamp - and Deborah Rippol - at Buffer - are writing the future. Exemplars of a new world of working where our offices are less im...

Alive at work - making work better with emotion

06 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. His forthcoming book Alive at Work is visionary for helping us underst...

Work culture: happiness first then success

30 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Seppala is a happiness expert. She's spent her life studying how we can be happier in life and has all the evidence to prove it. Emma gives a lif...

Biz Stone - designing great culture

18 Oct 2017

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Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter - famously returning to the company in 2017. We talk about design, about his first start-up where the culture got co...

Is Deep Work the solution?

16 Oct 2017

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Cal Newport is convinced that in 10 years we'll laugh at the way we're working today. We need a production line-like innovation to fix work... Enter D...

Daniel Pink on the secret of drive

02 Oct 2017

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Dan Pink is the most important researcher for understanding workplace motivation.Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever...