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Dan Pink on the Secret of Drive
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What’s stopping you doing your best work?
What’s stopping you from you doing your best work ever? That’s the question that Aaron Dignan (working at his culture consultancy, The Ready) asks the companies he meets. Often the biggest barrier to us doing our best work is often our own attitude and mindset – and Dignan takes us step by step into his…
Diversity Deception
Featuring Dan Lyons – author of Disrupted – and Dara Nasr (MD of Twitter UK) Dan Lyons – Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble is available now. We’re all busy, so I enjoyed the audiobook version. You can revisit the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs Here. Dan Lyons transcript: Just out of curiosity and we’re going to go…
Amy Gallo on resetting norms in 2021
Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter There is no better guest to kick off 2021 than Amy Gallo. Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review writing about workplace dynamics and emotional intelligence. She is co-host of the wonderful Women at Work podcast She’s is the author of the HBR Guide…
Is Deep Work the Solution?
Cal Newport is convinced that in 10 years we’ll laugh at the way we’re working today. We need a production line-like innovation to fix work… Enter Deep Work. This is one of three fascinating discussions I’ve had with Cal Newport. We’ve also discussed how we might achieve greater happiness in our lives by using our…
NEWSLETTER: The 12 questions
As discussed in the newsletter last week almost every business right now is working out what their new culture looks like – and in the absence of answers – commissioning experiments is pretty much the order of the day. There seems to be a societal simmer beginning to bubble over as a result of the…
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How Octopus Energy used culture to reach the top
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…
