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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…
The Economist: Perspectives on the work to come
Today two discussions. Firstly I talk to Callum Williams, Senior Economics Writer at The Economist. Callum just had a major report published in the paper about the future of work and we talk about the implications of it. Then I have a discussion with CEO and podcaster Dan Murray-Serter. Dan runs his own start-up, Heights….
Beating the To Do List
Buy Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman was a productivity geek. He was the guy trying to get it all done. He was that person, convinced he could optimise living to get the most out of his time here, writing about it in a wry, detached way in a Guardian column. Then the penny dropped. In…
Diversity Deception
Featuring Dan Lyons – author of Disrupted – and Dara Nasr (MD of Twitter UK) Dan Lyons – Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble is available now. We’re all busy, so I enjoyed the audiobook version. You can revisit the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs Here. Dan Lyons transcript: Just out of curiosity and we’re going to go…
Turning your team into a tribe
Michael Morris’s book Tribal covers the codes that bond humans together. It was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award 2024 where it came runner-up to ‘Supremacy’ by Parmy Olson. He explains that humans are inspired by peer codes, human codes and ancestor codes when it comes to their behaviour. Make…
Mental Health & Emotions – practical ways of fixing work
This week I talk to Josh Krichefski (CEO, Mediacom UK) and Liz Fosslien (co-author of No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed). Josh explains how they put mental health on the agenda on his firm by starting an honest, open discussion on it. Then we talk to Liz who gives…
