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Community 3: How our rituals can forge our culture from 2020-10-12T04:00

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Community 2: A Community Manager Speaks Truth from 2020-10-05T04:00

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 Listen

Community 1: "HR has fallen" from 2020-09-29T04:00

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Burnout - understanding the other epidemic from 2020-09-10T10:58:16

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The big return 3: a closer look at data from 2020-09-07T03:00

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Gary Hamel: Battling bureaucracy - the big fix for broken work from 2020-08-18T04:00

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The big return 2: but what are other firms doing? from 2020-08-14T04:33:18

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The big return 1: making the call on what to do next from 2020-08-11T11:24:51

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Building resilience - understanding the human impact of work from 2020-07-07T04:00

"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 so inter...

What's the value of an office? from 2020-06-30T15:18:25

"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. But what does the office o...

Fewer predictions, more experiments - what's next with work? from 2020-06-23T05:00:25

Firstly a conversation with David D'Souza the membership director of CIPD (incidentally is a fantastic Twitter ...

Reinventing work: why you need to understand the 'self other overlap' from 2020-06-08T03:00

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Feeling ok - understanding work & stress from 2020-05-21T22:18:20

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The world's top culture doctor: Professor Frances Frei talks Uber, WeWork & more from 2020-05-06T13:03:50

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Beating burnout - learning from the YouTuber experience with Arron Crascall & Elle Mills from 2020-04-28T16:45:28

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Diversity and creative thinking - the power of rebel ideas (with Matthew Syed) from 2020-04-15T13:41:53

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Work Undone: what happens now? A discussion with Prof Dan Cable from 2020-03-23T05:00

"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 going to look l...

A career of kindness - Christie Watson on nurse's lives from 2020-03-19T15:22:55

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Inside the 4 day week from 2020-03-10T04:00

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The 4 Day Revolution: Harder, better, faster, *shorter* from 2020-03-10T03:30

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 less to achieve more. There are two episodes ...

Inside Microsoft's cultural reinvention from 2020-03-03T05:00

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 succeed, how did it fail? What can any of us...

Why should anyone listen to you? The power of messengers from 2020-02-05T18:39:39

"We used to think 'the medium is the message', now we know that the messenger is the message".

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Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton from 2020-01-29T05:00

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 reflecting on life, work and happiness.

What next in your career? from 2020-01-13T08:56:45

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Let's talk about flex... flexible working from 2019-12-06T06:00

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.

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What's stopping you from doing your best work ever? from 2019-10-28T04:00

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

Talking teams - an interview with Pippa Grange - head of team & culture at the England football team from 2019-10-09T06:23:18

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 prospects of a team whose members ...

Could Uber have won with a different culture? from 2019-09-30T04:00

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 last couple of weeks, It’s a book called Listen

The lies we tell about work (interview with Marcus Buckingham) from 2019-09-16T04:13:43

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How silent meetings and 'Magic Time' could change your life from 2019-09-08T23:02:02

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Building Culture The Barcelona Way from 2019-08-23T05:07:23

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 strong sense of sustainable success they needed...

Inside the Liverpool culture of Jurgen Klopp from 2019-08-23T05:06:55

How did Jurgen Klopp build a culture that has caught the attention of everyone in sport. Including interviews with Klopp, Liverpool players and leading management psychologists we discover the 4...

Measuring the intelligence of teams from 2019-06-13T05:55:13

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

They asked 'can we judge the cognitive power of a cer...

Play: tales of success from an NHS hospital from 2019-04-22T04:00

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 broad word and its association...

Culture and conditions under the radar - tales from the gig economy from 2019-04-15T04:00

James Bloodworth lived undercover working in Amazon warehouses, care homes and clocked up hours as an Ube...

Mental Health & Emotions - practical ways of fixing work from 2019-04-08T04:00:49

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Gender in the workplace - breaking the glass wall from 2019-04-01T04:00

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 to serve male skills - and that this isn't go...

Jim Collins on making good culture great from 2019-03-18T05:00

Jim Collins is one of the most respected business writers in the world. With his books Good to Great and Listen

Dave Trott on beating creative blindness (live from IAB Leadership Summit) from 2019-03-12T05:00

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

I chatted to him at the I...

Employee engagement // The secret of 'story night' from 2019-03-04T06:00:44

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 organisation. In addition we’ve got a legend of w...

Could laughter be the root of good culture? from 2019-02-17T11:37:15

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Free extract of The Joy of Work from 2019-02-05T21:30:19

Thanks to Penguin Random House here's a free extract of a couple of different parts of The Joy of Work.

You ...

Cal Newport preaches Digital Minimalism from 2019-01-28T02:57:03

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 years ago to discuss his previous book. Cal...

Long hours and loneliness - fixing workplace misery from 2019-01-21T05:00

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Apps, algorithms and your next job from 2019-01-14T05:00

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 be exposed to a psychometric test. As they ...

Evidence Based Management - Rob Briner from 2019-01-07T05:00

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Ideas, innovation & work (the police episode 2) from 2018-12-13T04:53:09

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The police: decision making under pressure - life in a high stress job from 2018-12-11T06:00

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Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt from 2018-12-03T05:00

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How painting the walls pink changed a culture from 2018-11-26T05:00:54

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 was prompted a l...

Seth Godin - reinvent your culture from 2018-11-13T21:04

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Seth Godin has been one of the world's freshest thinkers since before the internet was on solid food.

After a first career packaging books, he then rose to his...

Unlocking workplace creativity - Teresa Amabile from 2018-11-05T05:00

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Alive at work - Dan Cable from 2018-10-22T04:00

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Jeffrey Pfeffer: Dying for a Paycheck from 2018-10-15T04:00

Today’s guest is regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world largely because he considers themes and human behaviours that others avoid discussing. Listen

The Good Jobs Strategy from 2018-10-08T05:00

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Adam Grant - Optimism about work culture from 2018-09-30T07:23

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 author of books like Give and Tak...

Testing the New Work Manifesto from 2018-07-02T04:00

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. You can find it on the podcast website ...

Bringing purpose and autonomy to work from 2018-06-19T18:47:44

Two practical case studies this week. Businesses who have pulled back the curtain to show how they brought Purpose and Autonomy to life. Brilliant examples of companies trying new things and hav...

Mental Health & Work - Emily Reynolds from 2018-06-04T04:36:59

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 best journalist who writes about it and she sug...

Making work more stimulating with side hustles - Emma Gannon from 2018-05-31T13:56:02

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 have the answer to their needs.

Emma...

Does Company Culture Exist? Dr Richard Claydon from 2018-05-14T06:00

Quite a brainy episode today. Dr Richard Claydon is a someone who likes to question why we claim things - he...

Inside the Brain - A Neuroscientist Explains from 2018-05-07T19:45:22

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 at Stanford University and found...

A Good Day at Work - Sir Cary Cooper from 2018-04-30T04:00

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

Being More Pirate from 2018-04-26T12:01:34

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 the energy of the Golden Age of Piracy. In a ...

Bad bosses: what makes a good leader? from 2018-04-16T12:28:31

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 there. So I actually came upon Dr Amanda Goodall...

Thought Leaders 2: Chris Barez Brown from 2018-04-09T04:30

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

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Thought Leaders 1: Tom Goodwin from 2018-04-09T04:00

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 agency Zenith in New York. He's the he...

Laughter - how to bring the LOLs back to the office from 2018-03-24T12:08:03

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 Scott, broadcaster Geoff Lloyd and si...

Rituals, Emotions and food from 2018-03-19T05:00

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 companies do.

Firstly Andy Puleston - ...

The Culture Code - the best culture book of 2018 from 2018-02-05T22:07:53

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 bestseller that cracked the formula of individua...

Cracking the secret of when - Daniel Pink from 2018-02-01T20:58:22

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 will it do for you? Daniel Pink explains how we ca...

#MeToo & Work from 2018-01-16T22:58:09

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 Brewer, freelance journalists and f...

The New Work Manifesto from 2018-01-08T05:00

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 discuss the New Work Manifesto. The manifes...

The Year in Work Culture with Andre Spicer from 2017-12-26T06:00

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 of the year. Along the way we also discuss An...

Are the robots taking over? Matthew Taylor on the future of work from 2017-12-21T08:14:32

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 in the UK. Here he explains his outlook on th...

Building teams with grit from 2017-12-20T06:00

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 and the thing to look for when hi...

Culture as the secret ingredient - Richard Reed and the Innocent story from 2017-12-12T23:04:28

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 perky brand, unbounded optimism and a winning ...

Beating Burnout - Managing Energy in the Email Age from 2017-12-04T20:13:20

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David McClements is the founder of Whitewater international training & consultancy” (whitewaterint.com) . ...

Bjarke Ingels - Cultural Architect from 2017-11-26T17:25:56

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 and norms of our dull cities. Bjarke's buildin...

Data on how offices work from 2017-11-21T00:00

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 track how your office is working.

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Remote: Control? from 2017-11-15T06:58:14

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 important than our intellects. Both champion w...

Alive at work - making work better with emotion from 2017-11-06T05:00

Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. His forthcoming book Alive at Work is visionary for helping us understand how to improve the sense of engagement in t...

Work culture: happiness first then success from 2017-10-30T05:56:01

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 life affirming reminder that happiness at work isn...

Biz Stone - designing great culture from 2017-10-18T17:36:20

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 corrupted and then intentionally inventing a cult...

Is Deep Work the solution? from 2017-10-16T03:00

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 Deep Work.

See See from 2017-05-22T04:00

Tony Schwartz is an incredibly successful writer, journalist and speaker. 15 years ago he set about changing the way we work. Seeing the growing exhaustion of people around him he's helped us under...

The surprising secret of workplace creativity from 2017-05-08T19:27:50

If most people knew the enjoyable secret of workplace creativity they'd probably feel liberated from the judgement of their peers. In this episode we hear inspiration from the ideas of Lucy Kellawa...

Rest - work less to do more from 2017-05-08T19:27:34

Rest is the fascinating new book by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. It outlines how a combination of sleep, rest, vacation and exercise can help us achieve more.Late nights spent glugging coffee achieve exa...

The Results Only Work Environment from 2017-05-08T19:27:20

Dan Pink has called ROWE the future of work. ROWE is the Results Only Work Environment. It's the idea that we don't worry about what people do at work as long as the job gets done. That means they ...

"If we're not changing anything, what was the point of the internet?" from 2017-05-08T19:26:58

Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising group Ogilvy. Through his 30 years in the media industry he has become renowned for championing the use of behavioural economics. Rory is an auth...

The Culture of Teams - the Boat Race and Camp Bastion from 2017-05-02T14:59:32

Mark De Rond is an ethnographer who embeds himself with teams under pressure. What's the culture like in a field hospital in Camp Bastion, in the boat race crew?Mark's latest book 'Doctors at War' ...

How Harry Styles Can Solve Diversity in Tech from 2017-03-20T05:00

Sacha Judd tells us how an online conspiracy about two members of One Direction led her to understand how we're failing to attract women into tech roles.Sacha is Managing Director at Hoku Group. Sh...

Uber - When Cultures Go Bad? from 2017-03-18T09:16:52

Brad Stone has written behind the scenes studies of some of the most well known tech firms in the world. By spending time with the leaders of Uber, Amazon and Airbnb Brad has gained a deep understa...

Why Your Open Plan Office is a Mistake from 2017-02-27T06:00

Andre Spicer is a professor in organisational behaviour at Cass Business School. He's written about the disfunction of world places and the advent of 'organisational stupidity'.He's provocative and...

Time To Get Radically Honest from 2017-02-20T06:00

Kim Scott is the co-Founder of Candor, Inc and the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity which is out in March 2017.Kim's view is that we spend too long at work n...

Finding happiness through breaks from 2017-02-13T07:49:54

Paul Dolan is the author of Happiness By Design - a guide to making the decisions that lead you to being happier.Joining me to discuss is John Owen - CEO of the Decision Practice. http://decisionpr...

Lean in - 3 perspectives from 2017-02-06T10:18:31

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is the best selling book about work culture for the last 5 years. We talk to three women to get their view on the book - and of feminism in the world place.Dawn Foster is ...

The Netflix Culture Document "We're Not a Family" from 2017-01-30T06:00

The "Netflix culture document" is one of the best known works on company culture. For a company that is beloved of millions for it's shows and service, their published document is a spiky explanati...

Diversity Deception from 2017-01-16T10:32:43

Featuring Dan Lyons (realDanLyons) - author of Disrupted - and Dara Nasr (@daranasr, UK MD of Twitter) Dan Lyons - Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble is available now. We're all busy...