My interest was chatting to Bjarke Ingels came about when I saw the design for the new Google Landscraper at Kings Cross. It’s a vast structure that runs alongside Kings Cross station train platforms. Like a tower block laid on its side it has a running track on the roof and all manner of…
Go deep with the experts playlist Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. His forthcoming book Alive at Work is visionary for helping us understand how to improve the sense of engagement in the workplace.
Richard Reed was one the founders of Innocent – the most unlikely David taking on the Goliaths of the soft drinks business. With little more than a perky brand, unbounded optimism and a winning culture they’re become the biggest juice brand in the UK. So how did Richard build this exceptional culture? What was the…
EAT SLEEP SHORT: Are the robots coming for your job? This year Matthew Taylor delivered a report to the Prime Minister looking at the future of work in the UK. Here he explains his outlook on the future of work and how work can set about being a force to increase happiness. Matthew Taylor is…
Go deep with the experts playlist Dan Pink is the most important researcher for understanding workplace motivation.
Cal Newport is convinced that in 10 years we’ll laugh at the way we’re working today. We need a production line-like innovation to fix work… Enter Deep Work. This is one of three fascinating discussions I’ve had with Cal Newport. We’ve also discussed how we might achieve greater happiness in our lives by using our…
Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter – famously returning to the company in 2017. We talk about design, about his first start-up where the culture got corrupted and then intentionally inventing a culture to be more effective.
As becoming increasingly clear the single biggest issue of work culture in the last 10 years has been the Me Too movement. Louise Ridley and Kirstie Brewer, freelance journalists and founders of Second Source discuss their involvement in the campaign to remove toxic sexual behaviour. Second Source is a group of women journalists trying to tackle…
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