Eat Sleep Work Repeat

By Bruce Daisley

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What's Eat Sleep Work Repeat about?

A podcast about making work better.

How can we fix work? Each week we chat to scientists and experts to improve our jobs. The Joy of Work book of the show is now available for pre-order: amzn.to/2zsBuR8 Hosted by @brucedaisley. Contact the show

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What next in your career?

01.13.2020

Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast - and the authors of a brand new book, The Squiggly Career. If you're wondering what to do with your life Sarah and Helen might be the ...

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01.13.2020 What next in your career? Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast - and the authors of a brand new book, The Squiggly Career. If you're wondering what to do with your life Sarah and Helen might be the ...
12.06.2019 Let's talk about flex... flexible working Hot topic right now. Annie Auerbach talks about her way of working flexibly and explains how all of us could be living a life we love. Annie is the author of Flex. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
10.28.2019 What's stopping you from doing your best work ever? What's stopping you from you doing your best work ever? That's the question that Aaron Dignan (working at his culture consultancy, The Ready) asks the companies he meets. Often the biggest barrier to us doing our best work is often ...
10.09.2019 Talking teams - an interview with Pippa Grange - head of team & culture at the England football team Recorded at the Good Day at Work event in Manchester, hosted by Robertson Cooper. During the last World Cup, as we gradually started believing in the prospects of a team whose members had surprised us with their humour, work-rate and ...
09.30.2019 Could Uber have won with a different culture? Today’s episode is about Uber. Its based on a brilliant book that stacks of people have found themselves tearing through in one sitting over the last couple of weeks, It’s a book called Superpumped by Mike Isaac. If you’ve heard ...
09.16.2019 The lies we tell about work (interview with Marcus Buckingham) Marcus Buckingham is a research who has specialised in debunking some of the lies that pervade our jobs. His discoveries are eye-popping. Company culture can't be measured, 'OKRs' (goals) never work and much more. It's a compelling and entertaining listen. ...
09.08.2019 How silent meetings and 'Magic Time' could change your life On this week's pod, David Gasca and Steven Rogelberg explain how you can fix your meetings to make work less miserable. Firstly David Gasca outlines the Silent Meeting Manifesto. In the world of work we're surrounded with very little scrutiny ...
08.23.2019 Building Culture The Barcelona Way In 2007 as Barcelona were looking to replace their manager they were faced with a difficult challenge. They decided if they were to move on with a strong sense of sustainable success they needed to think about the culture they ...
08.23.2019 Inside the Liverpool culture of Jurgen Klopp How did Jurgen Klopp build a culture that has caught the attention of everyone in sport. Including interviews with Klopp, Liverpool players and leading management psychologists we discover the 4 secrets of Klopp's culture at Liverpool (data, a simple plan, ...
06.13.2019 Measuring the intelligence of teams In 2015 Anita Williams Woolley and colleagues published some groundbreaking work understanding the 'collective intelligence' of teams. They asked 'can we judge the cognitive power of a certain group of people?' The answer was that yes, they could and also ...
04.22.2019 Play: tales of success from an NHS hospital A lot of people have asked me if I’m going to do an episode on the importance of play. One of the challenges of the word play is that its such a broad word and its associations aren’t always helpful ...
04.15.2019 Culture and conditions under the radar - tales from the gig economy James Bloodworth lived undercover working in Amazon warehouses, care homes and clocked up hours as an Uber driver to see the realities of modern work for millions of Brits. It makes for a fascinating glimpse at the lives of people ...
04.08.2019 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 ...
04.01.2019 Gender in the workplace - breaking the glass wall What if the way we've created work was built around the things that men prefer. Sue Unerman makes the compelling case that the workplace has evolved to serve male skills - and that this isn't good for the workplace and ...
03.18.2019 Jim Collins on making good culture great Jim Collins is one of the most respected business writers in the world. With his books Good to Great and Made to Last he became the observer of great companies and what made them special. He's just published a new ...
03.12.2019 Dave Trott on beating creative blindness (live from IAB Leadership Summit) Dave Trott is a creative director, copywriter, and author. A colossus of advertising who has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by D&AD.; I chatted to him at the IAB Leadership Summit in St Albans. It's not a talk about ...
03.04.2019 Employee engagement // The secret of 'story night' Today we’re chatting to the MD of the innovations company IDEO, Sue Siddall to hear how they bring the power of telling stories to life in their organisation. In addition we’ve got a legend of workplace study today. William Kahn ...
02.17.2019 Could laughter be the root of good culture? If you’ve not already subscribed there’s a weekly email that goes out with the podcast. This week's includes a brilliant article on how small teams seem to be more radical, there’s a couple of discussions about Professor Adam Grant’s work ...
02.05.2019 Free extract of The Joy of Work Thanks to Penguin Random House here's a free extract of a couple of different parts of The Joy of Work. You can buy the full audiobook here.: For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.28.2019 Cal Newport preaches Digital Minimalism Cal Newport’s Deep Work was a simple avocation of the process of using uninterrupted concentration to get things done. He’s now back with a new book about taking the same principles beyond work into life. It's a guide for achieving ...
01.21.2019 Long hours and loneliness - fixing workplace misery Loneliness and long hours are two of the curses of modern work - why are they growing and what can we do about them For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
01.14.2019 Apps, algorithms and your next job If you're looking to get a job sometime in the next decade - and that includes almost all of us - there's a very high probability that you're going to be exposed to a psychometric test. As they become enhanced ...
01.07.2019 Evidence Based Management - Rob Briner Rob Briner is an professor of organisational behaviour at London Queen Mary’s University. This is a brilliant chat. Very much essential listening for anyone interested in HR but also worth listening for those of us who sit thinking ‘what do ...
12.13.2018 Ideas, innovation & work (the police episode 2) innovation in the police For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
12.11.2018 The police: decision making under pressure - life in a high stress job This is the first of two episodes on the police this week. One on dealing with stress in 'blue light' professions, one on how to be creative in stressful environments. Andy Rhodes is the Chief Constable of Lancashire - and ...
12.03.2018 Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt Pre-order The Joy of Work Follow Adam Sign up for Eat Sleep Updates We’re talking work culture in different ways for the next few episodes. The next two episodes after this are in the police force. But today’s guest is ...
11.26.2018 How painting the walls pink changed a culture How can painting the walls of a company change their culture? We explore with Jez Groom today's guest. An episode this week on behavioural science. It was prompted a little by discussions with Seth Godin and others. It was thinking ...
11.13.2018 Seth Godin - reinvent your culture (sound fixed) Seth Godin has been one of the world's freshest thinkers since before the internet was on solid food. After a first career packaging books, he then rose to his own fame creating permission marketing. His blog is many ...
11.05.2018 Unlocking workplace creativity - Teresa Amabile Contact the show podcast@eatsleepworkrepeat.fm This week's episode features the iconic Teresa Amabile - she's a professor at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. If you're interested in ...
10.22.2018 Alive at work - Dan Cable 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 ...
10.15.2018 Jeffrey Pfeffer: Dying for a Paycheck 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 ...
10.08.2018 The Good Jobs Strategy 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 ...
09.30.2018 Adam Grant - Optimism about work culture 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, ...
07.02.2018 Testing the New Work Manifesto 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 ...
06.19.2018 Bringing purpose and autonomy to work 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 ...
06.04.2018 Mental Health & Work - Emily Reynolds 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 ...
05.31.2018 Making work more stimulating with side hustles - Emma Gannon 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... ...
05.14.2018 Does Company Culture Exist? Dr Richard Claydon 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 ...
05.07.2018 Inside the Brain - A Neuroscientist Explains 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 ...
04.30.2018 A Good Day at Work - Sir Cary Cooper 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 ...
04.26.2018 Being More Pirate 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 ...
04.16.2018 Bad bosses: what makes a good leader? 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 ...
04.09.2018 Thought Leaders 2: Chris Barez Brown 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 ...
04.09.2018 Thought Leaders 1: Tom Goodwin 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 ...
03.24.2018 Laughter - how to bring the LOLs back to the office 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 ...
03.19.2018 Rituals, Emotions and food 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 ...
02.05.2018 The Culture Code - the best culture book of 2018 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 ...
02.01.2018 Cracking the secret of when - Daniel Pink 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 ...
01.16.2018 #MeToo & Work 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 ...
01.08.2018 The New Work Manifesto 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 ...

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