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 become enhanced by AI and made more scaleable via apps these tests are going to go everywhere….
Follow Rob Briner Rob Briner is an professor of organisational behaviour at London Queen Mary’s University – he’s rated the top HR thinker in the UK. This is a brilliant chat. Very much essential listening for anyone interested in HR but also worth listening for those of us who sit thinking ‘what do HR actually…
and episode 2 Pre-order The Joy of Work Follow Stevyn Colgan This is the first of two episodes on the police. One on dealing with stress in ‘blue light’ professions, one on how to be creative in stressful environments. Andy Rhodes is the Chief Constable of Lancashire – and has responsibility for the wellbeing initiative…
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…
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