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Cracking the secret of… when
Go deep with the experts playlist When is your most creative time of the working day? When should you schedule your concentrated deep work? What the heck is a ‘nappuccino’ and what will it do for you? Daniel Pink explains how we can use timing to help improve our working environment.
Bad Bosses
Dr Amanda Goodall is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Cass Business school. I don’t normally do stuff on leaders. There’s enough leader lit out there. So I actually came upon Dr Amanda Goodall’s work when I was looking at something else. I encountered her work when I was reading about the effect of our…
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…
Inside the brain
James Doty is a neuroscientist who has spent his career trying to demystify the power of the brain. He’s a Clinical Professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. If you watch his TED Talk you’re going to fall in love with James, a gentle thoughtful guy. He…
Our personalities are changing, will it ruin work?
Last month the FInancial Times published an article by John Burn Murdoch in the form of an analysis of personality data, specifically looking at what are styled the Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Typically these five factors are regarded as a statistically reliable way to measure personality. Unlike approaches like…
Honey I Hacked My Job
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…
