Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
MAKE WORK BETTER. Eat Sleep Work Repeat is the best podcast about workplace culture - it's been listened to millions of times.Bruce Daisley brings a curious mind to discussions about our jobs and the role they play in our lives.Sign up for the newsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you
<p>Today's conversation is with Professor Benjamin Laker, someone I've long admired for his cutting edge work on the evolution of culture. His article on Meeting Free Days is probably the piece of research I've shared the most in the last 5 years.</p><p>Laker is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, which is part of the University of Reading. As well as writing multiple bestselling books on work like Too Proud to Lead and Job Crafting, he's also published dozens of articles in HBR and MIT Sloan Management Review. He's worked with government helping to develop policy on...
Flourishing at Work
<p>Daniel Coyle returns to reflect on what has changed since we last spoke. He's moved attention to an examination of what contributes to us getting a fulfilling experience from work - and life.</p><p>We talk attention, community and the way that great teams demonstrate 'group flow'. We also delve into some research by Nick Epley that I've covered on the newsletter, that suggests we're terrible at predicting what will make us happy.</p><br><p>If you like this check out the previous episodes with Daniel:</p><p>Dan Coyle can fix your broken culture</p><p>...
What makes for the Best Place to Work
<p>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.</p><br><p>It's an intriguing list, is a car wash really better than some of the most famous tech brands in the world?</p><br><p>The ranking allows us to explore what we want in a job: culture, connection, progression and autonomy.</p><br><p>Bad culture is 7 times more powerful driving quitting than salary: hear Charlie and Donald Sull talk about Glassdoor data</p><br><p>Glassdoor: Top US places to work</p><...
Culture is built on 'moments of truth'
<p><br></p><p>Kevin Green is the Chief People Officer for First Group.</p><br><p>He's set about reinventing the culture of the organisation from the ground up.</p><br><p>I heard Kevin speak at an event last year was completely bowled over by the way he talked about culture and the way he was trying to build it. I think you'll love this discussion. There's a full transcript on the website.</p><br><p>Also mentioned: Waitrose culture episode with Lord Mark Price</p><p>Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out...
People-watching in the workplace
<p>Dr Karen Bridbord is the author of a new book, The Relationship-Driven Leader that invites us to bring a psychologist's lens to our job and the relationships with those around us.</p><p>Her perspective is to use psychology to understand the person in front of you to interpret the world through their eyes. If you’ve got a controlling boss or someone who behaves in a way that impacts your life she helps you unpick what’s going in their head. </p><br><p>The Relationship-Driven Leader: Strengthening Connections to Enhance Productivity and Wellness at Work </p><p>Sign u...
What Gen Z need from work
<p>Gen Z have been shaped by recessions, the pandemic, geopolitical instability, not to mention financial insecurity and world changing technology.</p><br><p>That's the finding of the Edelman Gen Z Lab as told to me by the leader of the project Jackie Cooper. Most powerfully she explains that Gen Z's have a 'visceral need for safety' - that's financial, social, cultural and even physical.</p><br><p>They respond to fear by asking questions and wanting to be heard, which older generations often misread as entitlement or disrespect for hierarchy.</p><p>Politically, Gen Z is fragmented. Younger...
Is training really corporate sludge?
<p>Most company training is a waste of time that turns firms into bureaucratic sludge holes. That’s roughly the conclusion of today’s episode which is a conversation with Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson</p><br><p>They have a new book out The Art of Less. Andre has been a guest a few times before - way back in 2018. This podcast is old. In 2018 this podcast was ahead of Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO at the top of the podcast charts. (Andre talking about open plan offices)</p><br><p>The idea that much of what compan...
Strong team identity delivers success
<p>Jeremy Holt is a psychologist and leadership coach who has spent more than 20 years helping teams get better. Read his research about better team results.</p><br><p>This episode is the third part of a series about the power of identity in teams. Listen to the other Eat Sleep Work Repeat episodes about identity.</p><br><p>Jeremy posting about identity</p><br><p>Watch the Lebron documentary More Than a Game</p><br><p>Jeremy's book For the Love of the Game</p><br><p><br></p><p>Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or...
To understand leadership, you need to understand identity
<p>This is the second part of an interview with Professor Alex Haslam, the world's leading voice on the study of social identity.</p><p>You can hear the first part of this interview on the website.</p><br><p>In this discussion we talk how social identity can help us understand leadership.</p><br><p>Alex talks about the CARE model of leadership.</p><p>C - Create the group</p><p>A - Advance the group (sometimes over themselves)</p><p>R - Represent the group</p><p>E - Embed the group identity in everyday life for...
Everything is identity
<p><br></p><p>“Why are we so fixated on the individual self? I think it was a big con. The individual self is a relatively modern invention. The idea that human psychology is about the individual self was really an analytical fiction that was devised in the 20th century.”</p><br><p>This is the first part of a wide-ranging discussion with Professor Alex Haslam. He talks us why our group identities are so essential to us and define who we are as adults. He quotes his mentor John Turner who said, 'Social identity is what makes group behaviour poss...
