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’. Full transcript: A commute of over 30 minutes correlates with unhappiness (can you let long commuters work in a different way?) Is your boss nice to you? Do you…
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 Andre’s global fame as a lemonade stand pirate. Andre also talks about his two new books this year: Business…
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 understanding of what culture these firms create – whether via accident or design. Brad’s latest book is The Upstarts…
Explore the whole playlist 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 explanation of the realities of working there. Patty McCord is one of the brains behind it. She explains…
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 founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. If you watch his TED Talk you’re going to fall in love with James, a gentle thoughtful guy. He…
Sir Cary Cooper is a psychologist – 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He founded Robertson Cooper – a business which is collection of psychologists and wellbeing experts intent on helping people have a good day at work. Everyone I’ve met there is just brilliantly inspiring too – which I guess shows…
Episode 44 is a conversation with Tom Goodwin. Tom’s immensely perceptive take on the world became a viral hit in 2014. Tom Goodwin Exec VP at the media agency Zenith in New York. He’s the head of innovation down there. But on the web is where Tom is a player. He is Linked In’s number 1…
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 fun discussion of pirates old and new Sam explains how the world would be a better place if we all…
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