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Dan Pink on the Secret of Drive
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Dan Pink is the most important researcher for understanding workplace motivation.
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Our Coworking Future
What’s going to happen with our workplaces. Today the theme is how if we’re not careful the way that we’re using our workplaces is going redefine our work culture. At the start there is discussion about some of the themes in the most recent newsletter and then go on to chat to Nick LiVigne from…
Honey I Hacked My Job
Hear from 5 people who have tried to change their work routines – with mixed results. Guests include Jenny Biggam and Zoe Basri from media agency The 7 Stars, David Wilding from Twitter, Laura Archer who turned her lunch break into 6 weeks extra holiday and Andy Oakes who has learned to work in bursts. Laura’s book Gone…
Thinking about work – a discussion with Alain de Botton
Go deep with the experts playlist Here he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He’s sold millions of books reflecting on life, work and happiness. We share a wonderful discussion about what role work can fulfil in our lives, where education is…
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Making the Case for Good Jobs
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…
Why should anyone listen to you? The power of messengers
“We used to think ‘the medium is the message’, now we know that the messenger is the message”. Stephen Martin was the co-writer of one of my favourite books, Yes! so I was thrilled when I saw he had a new book, Messengers. He agreed to come on and talk about both books. How important…
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Amazon – Inside the ‘innovations engine’
Listen to the whole playlist Amazon announced its earnings last week – and saw its share price hit a record high. Announcing that they’d surpassed 200 million Prime members was just one of the milestones that the company was able to celebrate in a blowout performance. The company’s sales – no doubt helped by a…
