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How Toxic Employees Ruin Team Productivity (and How to Fix It)
Kate Murphy is the author a new book called Why We Click. It combines the very latest research into interpersonal synchrony – how we form bonds with others. It’s an intriguing read – at times compelling, at times challenging. I chatted to her to understand ‘the bad apple effect’ and her take on whether we…
Can better culture improve the results of an NHS Trust?
Explore the whole playlist: What does that look like? And how is going for them? Matthew Trainer’s CEO note at the end of 2023 Fill in the form: Consider my firm for a future podcast Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter TRANSCRIPT Bruce Daisley (00:07)Here’s a question. Can you fix the performance of an…
- Culture | Podcast | Psychology
Why a car wash company beats big tech for workplace culture
I’m joined by Daniel Zhao, chief economist of Glassdoor, who talks me through their new rankings of the best places to work in 2026. It’s an intriguing list, is a car wash really better than some of the most famous tech brands in the world? The ranking allows us to explore what we want in…
Work as a spectator sport
As lockdown time goes on more workers are reporting demands that they ‘show up’ digitally in different situations associated with their job. Whether showing they are at their machine working by having their green light on in Slack, or Google Chat (green is currently active, rather than greyed out for ‘away’), or attending team drinks/quizzes…
Cass Business School Talk
I did a talk with Cass Business School last week. The format was fast and focussed – a quick 25 minute hit on what work is going to look like in the near future.
