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Dan Pink is the most important researcher for understanding workplace motivation.
Go deep with the experts playlist
Dan Pink is the most important researcher for understanding workplace motivation.
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…
Rest is the fascinating new book by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. It outlines how a combination of sleep, rest, vacation and exercise can help us achieve more. Late nights spent glugging coffee achieve exactly the opposite of what we think – as Alex explains. We learn why Charles Dickens (pictured) might be a good role model for…
Jim Collins is one of the most respected business writers in the world. With his books Good to Great and Made to Last he became the observer of great companies and what made them special. He’s just published a new book which is a supplement to Good to Great (pssssst, read GTG first).
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Dr Gillian Sandstrom is a researcher whose work explores her fascination with our conversations with other people – whether colleagues, friends or strangers. She’s just published a fabulous new book ‘Once Upon A Stranger’. Her work says that we often have a ‘liking gap’ when we talk to people – we think they like us…
Sign up to receive this newsletter each week Male-dominated firms are more likely to insist on workers going back to the office My mind has been blown this week with some analysis that someone sent to me. An anonymous female contributor, working in Melbourne, Australia, sent me a dataset that I spent some time analysing…