See also: my first discussion with Zeynep Ton about the origin of the Good Jobs Strategy Zeynep Ton is the author of the Good Jobs Strategy – which holds the honour of being the book I refer to the most when it comes to talking about work. The book is explicitly about supermarket jobs, but…
I had a wonderful discussion with Robin Dunbar and his co-author Tracey Camilleri about the invisible ingredients of human relationships. Specifically the role that hormones, brain-size and time play in the connections we build. It invites us to question whether we could use those forces to make work better? Hormones are triggered by emotional interactions…
Jeremy Utley leads some of the most popular courses on creativity and innovation at the d.school of Stanford University. I was delighted to see that he was making his teaching of such popular courses available to a wider audience and chased him for an interview. This is one of his first interviews to talk about…
Rory Sutherland is one of the most respected brains in the advertising industry, a man whose early endorsement of behavioural economics helped popularise the nascent science. He’s also a regular writer for The Spectator and Vice Chief of Ogilvy Group. Rory joins me to interview to talk about my new book, Fortitude, which has become…
Go deep with the mattering playlist We all tell stories all of the time, but what makes a magical, memorable story? What pitfalls should we avoid? This was an issue that I was thinking about. Presentations are stories, and we deliver presentations every day. In my own investigation I found real value in the book…
Lots of my favourite podcasts have gone on summer break, so I wanted to keep putting some episodes out. But maybe you don’t want something that is too work related in the midst of the summer, so this is an episode that is more psychology and life than workplace culture. It’s a lovely discussion…
A conversation with Martin Houghton-Brown from St John’s Ambulance Go deep with the mattering playlist I’ve got a couple of podcasts coming that really try to give colour to the book that I’ve written. In Fortitude I talk about how true resilience, fortitude, is found through a combination of control, identity and community. Today’s podcast…
Two things on the podcast today – at the end of the episode there is a discussion with former guest, Brian Elliott from Slack’s Future Forum. Ahead of that I want to make an announcement about what I’ve been working on – with my new book Fortitude. Fortitude is an investigation into the elusive idea…
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