WARNING: CONTAINS THEMES OF SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION The Samaritans are available 24 hours a day on 116 123, in the US the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255. “I walked up and down Tottenham Court Road looking for a lorry to throw myself under” An episode going deep on mental health today. I chat…
Today’s episode is for anyone who is curious about how human’s tick. Work ultimately is a practice of the brain and how our brain processes and reacts to things is a fascination to me. I have a friend who is studying neuroscience and a couple of years ago at someone’s wedding I was chatting to…
Sign up for the Eat Sleep Work Repeat newsletter here. This is a new series of the podcast about the growth of community managers in firms – scroll down for all 4 episodes. Episode 1 looks at why community managers are a topic to watch. That’s a key question, what’s next with work – specifically…
Last year Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article about burnout became a viral sensation, spawning a seemingly never-ending wave of ‘Year of Burnout’ headlines. Petersen’s writing triggered such recognition because she rooted it in the ordinary, in everyday experiences that were instantly relatable. She evoked her own life where industrious professional productivity (as a writer) was…
I was fortunate to speak to Gary Hamel about his forthcoming new book, Humanocracy. He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) thing that businesses can do is eliminate their creeping bureaucracy. He talks about how increasingly organisations are paralysed with red tape and bureaucracy. The end result is that they can’t get anything done….
Three episodes here of firms weighing up the big return to the office. It covers themes that I’ve covered in the newsletter over the last few weeks. What are other firms doing? How will they make their decisions. Over the 2 episodes I’ve chatted to stacks of people to get their views. Firstly I talk…
“We think people want to be liked, but they need to be needed”. A thoroughly stimulating discussion here – that I’ve allowed to run long because it’s so interesting. I met a brilliant guy called Misha Byrne who worked for a company called NeuroPower. I was so taken with what he was talking about…
Tuesday and Thursday, see you there. BOOM!” A lot of us are starting to long for human contact again and the office feels like a happy place to be. But what does the office of the future look like? I chatted to the brilliant Antony Slumbers (follow him on Twitter here). Antony is regarded as…
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