Best episodes | Culture | Happiness | Podcast
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Achieving results Obliquely
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…
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Lesson of steel and wheels
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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Using Evidence to Re-Evaluate Modern Working
Using Evidence to Re-Evaluate Modern Working (or Why Idiot Bosses Ruined Work for the Rest of Us) You’re probably here because you either saw a presentation I gave with this name – or someone shared the link with you. On this page I’ll share the scientific papers and references I used for this presentation. If…
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Langland presentation
Thanks for attending my presentation today. Here are some of the links I discussed: Firstly here’s Charles Duhig talking about the study into psychological safety at a big firm Give the Pomodoro method a go. Here are some apps for it. Some coverage of the latest discussion on 4 day weeks – including coverage of…
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Is This The Dark Matter of Workplace Culture?
What makes one company more successful than another? Is a committed motivated workforce a differentiator between two competing firms? Damn right it is. Gallup’s Workforce Survey records that 8% of the UK workforce is engaged at work – with twice that number being actively disengaged in their jobs. If we could get those people to…
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Best episodes | Culture | Managers | Podcast
The Good Jobs Strategy
Buy the Good Jobs Strategy Zeynep Ton is a Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She studies the retail sector and the way that some firms have invested in paying more and doing more for their workers. She studied firms like QuikTrip, Trader Joes, Mercadona in Spain – she found…
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