Eat Sleep Work Repeat

By @brucedaisley

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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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Our Coworking Future?

01.10.2021

Sign for the newsletter What's going to happen with our workplaces. Today the theme is how, if we're not careful the way that we're using our workplaces is going redefine our work culture. At the start there is discussion about ...

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01.10.2021 Our Coworking Future? Sign for the newsletter What's going to happen with our workplaces. Today the theme is how, if we're not careful the way that we're using our workplaces is going redefine our work culture. At the start there is discussion about ...
01.02.2021 Amy Gallo on resetting norms in 2021 There is no better guest to kick off 2021 than Amy Gallo. Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review writing about workplace dynamics and emotional intelligence. She is co-host of the wonderful Women at Work podcast She's ...
12.27.2020 Live Laugh Work - understanding humour at work Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter. How the heck did we end up thinking that humour and serious work are in opposition to each other? Today's guests, Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas, run a tremendously successful course at ...
12.13.2020 Seth Godin can make YOU creative Sign up for the newsletter Seth Godin has cracked the secret of how to make you more creative. And the good news is that everyone can do it. He was so dogged by his need to share this that he ...
11.30.2020 GCHQ: Working inside intelligence Sign up for the newsletter There was an incredible response to the episode with Chris hayward last week. I know that Chris was really touched with the response. He’s not on Twitter but I know he was responding to some ...
11.23.2020 When everything gets too much - mental health & work WARNING: INCLUDES THEMES OF SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION "I walked up and down Tottenham Court Road looking for a lorry to throw myself under" An episode going deep on mental health today. I chat to someone who has been brave enough ...
11.16.2020 Understanding the brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett Sign up for the newsletter Today's episode is for anyone who is curious about how human's tick. Work ultimately is a practice of the brain and how our brain processes and reacts to things is a fascination to me. I ...
11.09.2020 Making the world (of work) happier: Mo Gawdat What a truly wonderful conversation you're about to listen to today. Mo Gawdat is an expert on happiness and today's episode is a combination of philosophy and science - and it never fails to be stimulating to listen to every ...
10.19.2020 Community 4: A champion community builder shares her advice "When I moved to New York City, I realised what it meant to be truly lonely for the first time. I had no consistent community — people who would wonder where I was if I didn’t show up. I was ...
10.12.2020 Community 3: How our rituals can forge our culture Sign up for the newsletter. We're at part 3 of our series about community at work. Today's guest is one of the most respected community thinkers in the world, Casper ter Kuile, Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and author ...
10.05.2020 Community 2: A Community Manager Speaks Truth Today's episode is a further exploration of how firms will try to evolve their culture by hiring Community Managers. If you've not listened to last week's episode featuring Sarah Drinkwater pull up, back up and tuck in to that one ...
09.29.2020 Community 1: "HR has fallen" Sign up for the Eat Sleep Work Repeat newsletter here. New podcast today - the first of four podcasts about what’s next with work - specifically how can we make work feel like a community again, especially when you’re hunkered ...
09.10.2020 Burnout - understanding the other epidemic Last year Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article about burnout became a viral sensation, spawning a seemingly never-ending wave of ‘Year of Burnout’ headlines. Petersen’s writing triggered such recognition because she rooted it in the ordinary, in everyday experiences that were ...
09.07.2020 The big return 3: a closer look at data Subscribe to the newsletter Today's interviewees: Bhushan Sethi leads PwC's workplace strategy business and Ben Waber is the CEO of workplace analytics firm, Humanyze. Read the Humanyze research about the way work has changed since lockdown. Here's the previous episode ...
08.18.2020 Gary Hamel: Battling bureaucracy - the big fix for broken work I was fortunate to speak to Gary Hamel about his forthcoming new book, Humanocracy. He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) thing that businesses can do is eliminate their creeping bureaucracy. He talks about how increasingly organisations are ...
08.14.2020 The big return 2: but what are other firms doing? What are other firms doing about returning to work? How can any of us work out the right thing to do? I chat to 4 more firms to hear their plans. Listen to conversations with Beth Marie Norbury from Babcock ...
08.11.2020 The big return 1: making the call on what to do next Subscribe to the newsletter Here's Dan's tweets that started this conversation. Today's episode is first of two episodes about the big return to work. It covers themes that I've covered in the newsletter over the last few weeks. What are ...
07.07.2020 Building resilience - understanding the human impact of work "We think people want to be liked, but they need to be needed". A thoroughly stimulating discussion here - that I've allowed to run long because it's so interesting. I met a brilliant guy called Misha Byrne who worked for ...
06.30.2020 What's the value of an office? "Tuesday and Thursday, see you there. BOOM!" A lot of us are starting to long for human contact again and the office feels like a happy place to be. But what does the office of the future look like? I ...
06.23.2020 Fewer predictions, more experiments - what's next with work? Firstly a conversation with David D'Souza the membership director of CIPD (incidentally is a fantastic Twitter follow). David talks about the choices available to firms right now: - do we want to be famous for the new culture that we've ...
06.08.2020 Reinventing work: why you need to understand the 'self other overlap' I'm so excited about what is in the next few episodes. This is a short series of episodes about what we're about to lose with the end of office culture, and how we can build something new. If you like ...
05.21.2020 Feeling ok - understanding work & stress Subscribe to the Make Work Better mailout Subscribe to Your Table's Ready Podcast Varied episode today, firstly for Mental Health Awareness week, two members of West Midlands Fire Service talk about stress at work and when it's ok to say ...
05.06.2020 The world's top culture doctor: Professor Frances Frei talks Uber, WeWork & more If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com I've been chasing this conversation for over 2 years and I'm delighted today to talk to the world’s most sought after culture doctor: Frances Frei is the Red ...
04.28.2020 Beating burnout - learning from the YouTuber experience with Arron Crascall & Elle Mills If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com Recorded live at Vidcon 2020 As we sit in a strange period of work, a slight distraction from the normal cycle with a discussion with two digital creators. ...
04.15.2020 Diversity and creative thinking - the power of rebel ideas (with Matthew Syed) If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com This episode is about the power of diverse thinking. Our guest is the thinker, writer, commentator Matthew Syed. Matthew represented Great Britain in table tennis at the Barcelona ...
03.23.2020 Work Undone: what happens now? A discussion with Prof Dan Cable "Purpose is something that can be found but cannot be given" For this episode I talk with London Business School professor Dan Cable about what work is going to look like in the future as we contemplate the fall out ...
03.19.2020 A career of kindness - Christie Watson on nurse's lives You can talk about this episode - and more - on our new forum. Well what a strange time we’re living through. I don’t what I can say that hasn’t already been said. So to some extent this episode is ...
03.10.2020 Inside the 4 day week Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now. Second episode on the 4 day week. We go deep with someone who made the 4 day leap, Andrew Barnes' firm Perpetual Guardian made the shift to ...
03.10.2020 The 4 Day Revolution: Harder, better, faster, shorter First of two new episodes on one theme. Until coronavirus swept the world the discussion of 2020 was about the future of work being based on working less to achieve more. There are two episodes on this today. Firstly former ...
03.03.2020 Inside Microsoft's cultural reinvention When the biggest company in the world slipped from its throne how did a new CEO try to rescue it using culture. What did Satya Nadella do? How did it succeed, how did it fail? What can any of us ...
02.05.2020 Why should anyone listen to you? The power of messengers "We used to think 'the medium is the message', now we know that the messenger is the message". Stephen Martin was the co-writer of one of my favourite books, Yes! so I was thrilled when I saw he had a ...
01.29.2020 Thinking about work - a discussion with Alain de Botton Here he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He's sold millions of books reflecting on life, work and happiness. We share a wonderful discussion about what role ...
01.13.2020 What next in your career? Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now. 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 ...
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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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) If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comMarcus 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) ...
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 ...

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