Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Dan Cable is the author of the life affirming and brilliant Alive at Work - one of the most inspiring visions of what work could look like. The discussion covers big themes of purpose and motivation but brings simple practical tips. What are the simple things that any of us could do to our induction processes at work? How could we encourage our teams to bring their selves to work. I mention two ar...

Today’s guest is regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world largely because he considers themes and human behaviours that others avoid discussing. Jeffrey Pfeffer is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He’s author of books like Management BS, Power and most recently Dying for a Paycheck and it’s the last two boo...

Read more on the Good Jobs Strategy Pre-order the Joy of Work If you like this the easiest way to get it is to subscribe on Apple podcasts - give us a rating while you’re there. Zeynep Ton is a Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She studies the retail sector and the way that some firms have invested in paying more and doing more for their workers. She studied...

Professor Adam Grant is the most important business writer in the world - a man who says his study is focussing on how to make work suck less. Adam is author of books like Give and Take, Option B, Originals, he's also the host of a chart topping podcast on work culture called Work Life with TED . Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years - his books have told over...

Around 12 months ago myself and Sue Todd created the new work manifesto. It was an attempt to start the debate about simple things that we can change. You can find it on the podcast website  eatsleepworkrepeat.fm . It's had a briliant response, research companies have asked to help validate it, different professions like doctors and police have been in touch asking if they can adapt it for th...

Two practical case studies this week. Businesses who have pulled back the curtain to show how they brought Purpose and Autonomy to life. Brilliant examples of companies trying new things and having success from them. Rachel Bremer is the Communications Director at ASOS. She talks about how they re-energised 4000 young, ambitious employees to keep the business on an incredible growth path. Laurie Y...

I've wanted to do an episode on mental health for months. But to be honest I've felt really conscious of messing it up. I ended up chatting to the best journalist who writes about it and she suggested that we talk about it. Emily Reynolds is one of the sharpest writers in the UK , writing for publications like Vice, Wired, The Guardian, Stylist. Incidentally she also writes about mental health. He...

Lots of listeners have been hitting up my LinkedIn saying how can we make work better if we don't have a full-time permanent job. Emma Gannon might have the answer to their needs. Emma is a podcaster, writer, broadcaster, blogger... in fact she's the perfect example of the freelance, multi-hyphenate lives that more of us are living in 2018. A She describes how we can build careers out of freelance...

Quite a brainy episode today.  Dr Richard Claydon  is a someone who likes to question why we claim things - he's a natural challenger. He describes himself as a Transdisciplinary Behavioural Scientist and Ironist.   He writes some interesting (if a bit too long) things on Linked In that a few people sent to me. We had a brilliant chat for well over an hour but i've tried t...

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 is the New York Times be...

Sir Cary Cooper is a psychologist - 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He founded Robertson Cooper - a business which is collection of psychologists and wellbeing experts intent on helping people have a good day at work. Everyone I've met there is just brilliantly inspiri...

Sam Conniff Allende has spent his career building a youth marketing agency. Now he's concluded that the way to inspire younger workers is to channel the energy of the Golden Age of Piracy. In a fun discussion of pirates old and new Sam explains how the world would be a better place if we all tried to be a bit more pirate. Sam's book Be More Pirate is published on 3rd May 2018. You can follow him o...

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 bosses on us.  Bad bosses are the worst thing at work. Amanda's research says we'll ask t...

Who's Elvis round here? There was a time when answering that question would have earned you a nice cheque from the National Enquirer. The second part of a spotlight on Thought Leaders - the gurus who are challenging the status quo. Chris Barez-Brown is a best selling author, speaker and culture change consultant. …….He says: "We train businesses to manage change" As h...

Two episodes here listening to some of the people who are challenging, provoking and questioning the status quo. Tom Goodwin Exec VP at the media agency Zenith in New York. He's the head of innovation down there. But on the web is where Tom is a player. He is Linked In's number 1 influencer in the marketing field. That accolade will set you back 560,000 followers.  How did he end up there? We...

A brilliant live discussion from Ad Week Europe on the scientific value of laughter - and how to bring it back to work. Featuring Professor Sophie Scott, broadcaster Geoff Lloyd and sitcom writer Paul Coleman. Hosted by Bruce Daisley and Sue Todd. All episodes are live at EatSleepWorkRepeat.fm. Please like and subscribe. Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episode...

Inside the rituals of two happy businesses. Over the last couple of months a few people have come up to me to tell me stories about things their companies do. Firstly Andy Puleston - a Radio 1 alumni - came up to me and chatted to me about some of the things they did during the Andy Parfitt reinvention. Pizza meetings, heroic leaving speeches and lots of private offices filled with eclectic music...

The Culture Code is the best book on work culture likely to be published this year. From Daniel Coyle author of the Talent Code, an international bestseller that cracked the formula of individual success. In the subsequent 5 years he's immersed himself in the best teams in the world - Navy SEALS, sports teams and some of the most creative companies in the world (including Pixar and IDEO). Now he's...

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. Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website . Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Dai...

As becoming increasingly clear the single biggest issue of work culture in the last 10 years has been the Me Too movement. Louise Ridley and Kirstie Brewer, freelance journalists and founders of Second Source discuss their involvement in the campaign to remove toxic sexual behaviour. Second Source is a group of women journalists trying to tackle sexual harassment in the media industry. Find d...

Over the last 35 episodes we've discussed improvements to work, now we bring them all together. In discussion with Sue Todd, CEO of Magnetic, we discuss the New Work Manifesto. The manifesto is an 8 point plan, designed to help us improve work and get more from our time at our desks. The manifesto can be found at www.newworkmanifesto.org. Send us your thoughts and suggestions. Sign up to the Make...

The dramas at Uber, the reckoning of the #MeToo movement, the BBC pay gap, Bruce is joined by Andre Spicer to debate the biggest work culture issues of the year. Along the way we also discuss Andre's global fame as a lemonade stand pirate. Andre also talks about his two new books this year: Business Bullshit and Desperately Seeking Self Improvement. Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or ch...

EAT SLEEP SHORT: Are the robots coming for your job? This year Matthew Taylor delivered a report to the Prime Minister looking at the future of work in the UK. Here he explains his outlook on the future of work and how work can set about being a force to increase happiness. Matthew Taylor is the CEO of the RSA. He was previously a political strategist working with Tony Blair. Sign up to the Make W...

Angela Duckworth's Grit was one of the most impactful business books of 2016. Here in an Eat Sleep short Angela talks about building resilient culture and the thing to look for when hiring someone with a gritty tenacity. In her late twenties, Angela left a demanding job as a management consultant to teach maths to seventh graders in the New York City state schools. Angela is a MacArthur “geni...

Richard Reed was one the founders of Innocent - the most unlikely David taking on the Goliaths of the soft drinks business. With little more than a perky brand, unbounded optimism and a winning culture they're become the biggest juice brand in the UK. So how did Richard build this exceptional culture? What was the Innocent version of 'Don't Be Evil'? Richard shares special techniques like 'learn o...