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Testing the New Work Manifesto
Around 12 months ago myself and Sue Todd created the New Work Manifesto. It was an attempt to start the debate about simple things that we can change. You can find it on the menu above. It’s had a briliant response, research companies have asked to help validate it, different professions like doctors and…
What is the secret to creativity? Jeremy Utley demystifies the art of ideas
Jeremy Utley leads some of the most popular courses on creativity and innovation at the d.school of Stanford University. I was delighted to see that he was making his teaching of such popular courses available to a wider audience and chased him for an interview. This is one of his first interviews to talk about…
Can you imagine your job without email or Zoom?
Buy A World Without Email I’ve talked a lot about Cal Newport’s provocations about abolishing email (and Zoom calls) [find them here and here]. And in fact, I had someone last week astonished when I suggested we should try to limit video calls to eight hours a week. They thought I’d lost my mind. How…
Burnout – understanding the other epidemic
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…
Work Undone: what happens now? A discussion with Prof Dan Cable
“Purpose is something that can be found but cannot be given” For this episode I talk with London Business School professor Dan Cable about what work is going to look like in the future as we contemplate the fall out of coronavirus and homeworking. Clearly a lot of firms aren’t going to make it through…
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…
