Delighted to post this small conversation with Nick Shackleton-Jones. Nick posts brilliantly witty rants on TikTok that are just the best things I hear about work and the futility of bureaucracy. TikTok is a fame machine and if creators drop a banger they can end up reaching a vast audience. Nick has posted some content…
I’m often asked asked which company cultures I admire, especially as I tend to be critical of the culture inside tech firms. It’s easy to have good vibes in small firms but organisations who manage to deliver good culture at scale are the ones I’m most interested in. I often call out Nando’s or Octopus…
“There’s this concept called inbox zero, where everyone tries to get to their inbox down to zero. But I would suggest that a more noble pursuit is that of calendar zero”. I chatted to Howard Lerman this week. I was blown away by this discussion – it captured exactly what is wrong about current work,…
Go deep with the whole playlist The next two podcasts I see as a piece with each other, today is about meaning the next one is about mattering. Collectively I feel they present serious answers about the foundations of good culture. There’s some overlap – the authors today have done research with next week’s guest…
The podcast isn’t dead. It was just resting. I had a brilliant discussion about micro-cultures and when a manager needs to be a little subversive as a means of protecting their people. Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer talked a lot about building a great culture for your team even if your firm isn’t focussed on…
Dealing with workplace anger Edelman‘s Trust Barometer tells us that most employees see their company as the smallest big thing that they believe they have some impact over. This can mean that, rendered helpless by global events or politics, workers look to their bosses to take a stand for them. How do we get this…
Tiffany Gaskell outlines coaching as a route to transformational leadership Tiffany Gaskell is the co-author of Coaching for Performance, the top-selling guide to coaching first published by Sir John Whitmore, the inventor of the discipline. It’s curious to consider that there was a founder of coaching, and Tiffany takes me through the history of the…
Subscribe to the free Make Work Better newsletter Brigid Schulte is a journalist and writer who brings a reporter’s ear for stories to her exploration of modern work. Over the course of a decade Schulte has talked to people about the impact their jobs has on their lives – and has explored any hope that…
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