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Should we use the restart for a reset?
This week I chat to Elizabeth Uviebinené, Financial Times columnist and the iconic author of Slay in Your Lane about her new book The Reset. With Slay (‘The Black Girl Bible’) she proved that she could sell huge amount of books to audiences who weren’t represented by mainstream books, but The Reset takes aim at…
Gary Hamel: Battling bureaucracy – the big fix for broken work
I was fortunate to speak to Gary Hamel about his forthcoming new book, Humanocracy. He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) thing that businesses can do is eliminate their creeping bureaucracy. He talks about how increasingly organisations are paralysed with red tape and bureaucracy. The end result is that they can’t get anything done….
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Your colleagues like you more than you realise…
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…
What does it mean for culture when ‘intelligence is on tap’?
First of two episodes going deep on how AI is going to impact work – and consequently workplace culture. This week’s discussion is with Alexia Cambon from Microsoft. Alexia is Head of Research on Copilot & Future of Work. Last month her team released the Work Trend Index Annual Report. It’s one of the most…
Sweeping the sheds – what can we learn from the culture of the All Blacks
Health warning: sport is sometimes a flawed metaphor when it comes to work, it is often very male and half of every audience isn’t interested in the stories that come from it. Personally I have no especial interest or understanding of rugby, but I was captivated with this as a study of culture – if this one…
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…
