An episode this week on behavioural science. It was prompted a little by discussions with Seth Godin and others. It was thinking can you change the culture in organisations by the way you engineer choices available to people – and I’m speaking to a behavioural scientist about these things. First a bit of background –…
This week’s episode features the iconic Teresa Amabile – she’s a professor at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. If you’re interested in her work this YouTube clip is a great start point. Before the chat with Professor Amabile we talk through the…
Read Dying for a Paycheck and Power Jeffrey mentions this New York Times article about the stress of someone in the legal profession. His book Power has become a global best seller largely because it is a manual for the Machiavellian. It’s a modern day version of Niccolò Machiavelli’s 16th century book The Prince. It’s…
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 hiring someone with a gritty tenacity. In her late twenties, Angela left a demanding job as a management consultant to teach maths to…
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 working remotely and letting our workplaces being secondary to our home lives. Jason is the author of books like Rework…
In 2010 John Kay wrote an article for the FT called Obliquity. It proved so popular that it became a best selling book. Obliquity is the concept that to achieve what we want to do we should aim for other things – we achieve our goals obliquely. Transcript Bruce Daisley (00:07.138) This is Eat Sleep…
The mental toll of trying to keep everyone in the loop is creating a burden that for many of us is making work increasingly stressful. Should we be thinking of reconfiguring our workplaces to make them less intense. This writer believes it’s time to let everyone fall out of the loop. A few years ago…
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