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TOXIC: When good cultures go bad
From the Ellen Show to Boeing why do cultures go wrong? Colin Ellis is a consultant and author who spends his time working with organisations to improve their culture. He’s turned his attention to why some companies go bad in a new book Detox Your Culture. He talked me through what has gone wrong at…
Lesson of steel and wheels
The mental toll of trying to keep everyone in the loop is creating a burden that for many of us is making work increasingly stressful. Should we be thinking of reconfiguring our workplaces to make them less intense. This writer believes it’s time to let everyone fall out of the loop. A few years ago…
We need to tackle workplace loneliness
Simon Gilbody talks loneliness at work Professor Simon Gilbody is a psychiatrist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of York. His work specialises in ‘taking a population approach to mental health’, trying to understand the aspects of modern life that contribute to how we feel. I was impressed by a talk that Simon did with…
Announcing Eat Sleep Work Repeat – the book
After an outstanding year of release in the UK – where The Joy of Work has been the #1 best selling business hardback of 2019 – I’m delighted that the book will be released in the US on February 25 2020. The title in the US will be called, Eat Sleep Work Repeat and will…
Data and links to understand Work Reinvented
Over the last few weeks dozens of people have got in touch with me. ‘I know that you’re saying that the world has changed its views and home-working is here to stay, but my boss doesn’t agree and we’re going back 5 days a week when the vaccines drop’. They normally sign off with…
“The reason why meetings often don’t work is because the boss is there”
Subscribe to receive this in your inbox Previously on Make Work Better: we’re in this new form of working for the long-term. Companies have already started their exit strategy from having big expensive office space to some sort of remote/coworking hybrid. It means that anyone interested in creating successful winning work culture needs to start…
