Designing great culture
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.
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#MeToo and Work
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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The Collective Intelligence of Teams
Go deep with the whole playlist In 2015 Anita Williams Woolley and colleagues published some groundbreaking work understanding the ‘collective intelligence’ of teams. They asked ‘can we judge the cognitive power of a certain group of people?’ The answer was that yes, they could and also there were certain things that helped predict this collective…
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Cracking the secret of… when
Go deep with the experts playlist When is your most creative time of the working day? When should you schedule your concentrated deep work? What the heck is a ‘nappuccino’ and what will it do for you? Daniel Pink explains how we can use timing to help improve our working environment.
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Rituals, Emotions and food
Inside the rituals of two happy businesses. Over the last couple of months a few people have come up to me to tell me stories about things their companies do. Firstly Andy Puleston – a Radio 1 alumni – came up to me and chatted to me about some of the things they did during…
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Bringing Laughter Back to Work
Go deep with the happiness playlist A brilliant live discussion from Ad Week Europe on the scientific value of laughter – and how to bring it back to work. Featuring Professor Sophie Scott, broadcaster Geoff Lloyd and sitcom writer Paul Coleman. Hosted by Bruce Daisley and Sue Todd.
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The Culture Code – the best culture book of 2018
The Culture Code is the best book on work culture likely to be published this year. From Daniel Coyle author of the Talent Code, an international bestseller that cracked the formula of individual success. In the subsequent 5 years he’s immersed himself in the best teams in the world – Navy SEALS, sports teams and…
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Rory Sutherland on work culture
Go deep with the experts playlist Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising group Ogilvy. Through his 30 years in the media industry he has become renowned for championing the use of behavioural economics. Rory is an author and regularly writes for The Spectactor. Full transcript We’ve barely changed anything about work in response…
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