Regular listeners will know how much I love the work of Professor Nick Bloom from Stanford University – as featured in previous newsletters – Nick has been researching remote working for over a decade. I’ve been pestering him to talk for the last few weeks and I managed to secure him for this week’s podcast….
Go deep with the whole playlist Such a fascinating discussion today. I recently read Will Storr’s brilliant book The Status Game and was so taken with it I invited him on the podcast. Will believes that status is a fundamental need for humans. He quotes Professor Brian Boyd when he says that we: ‘naturally pursue…
This episode is greatly enhanced by reading the newsletter that comes with it. In today’s podcast I talk to two guests who have slightly different perspectives on how to fix the culture of the Met Police. Dr Megan O’Neill is Associate Director at the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. She has extensively studied the police…
Caleb Parker is one of the most intelligent commentators on the future of our workplaces (Twitter, his website) and this conversation with him did not disappoint. Caleb is the founder of a flexible workplace offering, Bold, but also host of a truly brilliant commercial real estate podcast called The Work Bold Podcast. I found Caleb’s…
Tom Kegode from LBG’s Work:Lab leader talks the future of work for 70000 employees Last year I did a few episodes looking to see how firms were tackling the return to the office (the return to work – THE PLACE) but they were all small workplaces. Organisations that could make nimble actions, I wanted to…
Professor Lynda Gratton is one of the world’s leading experts on business and the future of work. She’s on speed dial with the top CEOs and is a regular at Davos and the World Economic Forum. Her HBR cover article about ‘doing hybrid right’ has been the navigation guide to the last two years for…
Two outstanding conversations trying to make sense of what is happening around work. Firstly I chat to Brian Elliott who leads the Future Forum, a group led by Slack. they released a new report surveying workers in the UK, US and other major countries. Here are the topline findings – but the conversation goes way…
As we start a new year considerations about the jobs we do have never been more prominent. One headline this year has already suggested that up to three-quarters of us might be considering changing jobs. Intriguingly money doesn’t appear to be in the top five reasons to make a change. I wanted to understand what…
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