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 Slay (‘The Black Girl Bible’) she proved that she could sell huge amount of books to audiences who weren’t represented by mainstream books, but The Reset takes aim at…
Sign up to receive this newsletter each week Male-dominated firms are more likely to insist on workers going back to the office My mind has been blown this week with some analysis that someone sent to me. An anonymous female contributor, working in Melbourne, Australia, sent me a dataset that I spent some time analysing…
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind was my favourite book of 2020 and it comes out in paperback next month. A brilliant read (that also works wonderfully as an audiobook) it will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens or anyone who wants a provocative, thoughtful summer read. To mark the paperback release I spoke to him about…
Today two discussions. Firstly I talk to Callum Williams, Senior Economics Writer at The Economist. Callum just had a major report published in the paper about the future of work and we talk about the implications of it. Then I have a discussion with CEO and podcaster Dan Murray-Serter. Dan runs his own start-up, Heights….
In 2021 Ramadan starts on 13th April and ends around 12th May. (I say ‘around’ because such are the rules of the Holy Month that someone has to observe the moon and this can lead to arguments…) My good friend the poet Hussain Manawer offered to write some guidelines of how to be a good…
Sign up for the newsletter Kim Scott is the straight talking author of the phenomenal hit Radical Candour. Now she’s back with a huge new book that’s set to be equally as impactful. She joined me with business partner Trier Bryant to discuss diversity, workplace bias, bullying and harassment – and what any of…
Go deep with the whole playlist 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 which is the sort of book you can lose yourself in on a holiday (if anyone lets you have one). I enjoyed it for…
As many of us work out a plan to return to the office we’ve not yet reflected on the ways that hybrid working *could* in fact end up being be worse than a choice between office work and remote work. Why? Well, being the moon-sized face on a screen can be satisfactory when you’re the…
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