Eat Sleep Work Repeat

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 details here: http://www.thesecondsource.co.uk or follow them on Twitter Emily Reynolds' blog post can be found here. The Vice UK anonymous letter is here: https://medium.com/@v1ceworkersuk/vice-uk-collective-workers-statement-7cd5f9538f24 The tweets discussing the response to that letter is here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 “genius” grant winner, researcher and CEO of Character Lab.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 one, do one, teach one' that helped share a climate of humble learning. Richard talks about his new book 'If I Could Tell You One Thing' advice from the most respected people in the world, plus Michael McIntyre.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

VOLUME FIXED David McClements is the founder of Whitewater international training & consultancy” (whitewaterint.com) . He works training and developing top performers. I saw David speak recently and was struck with his willingness to challenge some of the best established ideas. His discussion about Chris Hoy and energy management is fascinating.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bjarke Ingels is the number 1 architect in the world. His buildings are taking the world by storm with their fearless disregard for the conventions and norms of our dull cities. Bjarke's buildings are both fun and immensely practical. By when the greatest in his field is thinking about the future of work how does he design it? Bjarke explains how he is building innovative workspaces - both for others and for his own company. Bjarke talks both about the cutting edge buildings that he is creating and references some of the accidentally brilliant buildings of the past like Building 20 at MIT which produced 9 Noble prize winners.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Waber is the CEO of Humanyze, a firm that spun pioneering work from MIT into the world's leading people analytics business. Their technology can track how your office is working.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jason Fried - at Basecamp - and Deborah Rippol - at Buffer - are writing the future. Exemplars of a new world of working where our offices are less important than our intellects. Both champion working remotely and letting our workplaces being secondary to our home lives. Jason is the author of books like Rework and Remote. Deborah is the People Success Manager at Buffer.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. His forthcoming book Alive at Work is visionary for helping us understand how to improve the sense of engagement in the workplace. Full transcript on the episode page: https://eatsleepworkrepeat.fm/2017/11/05/two-ways-to-tran…ith-neuroscience/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emma Seppala is a happiness expert. She's spent her life studying how we can be happier in life and has all the evidence to prove it. Emma gives a life affirming reminder that happiness at work isn't a luxury, it's a prerequisite for success and creativity. Emma's book The Happiness Track is superb.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter - famously returning to the company in 2017. We talk about design, about his first start-up where the culture got corrupted and then intentionally inventing a culture to be more effective.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cal Newport is convinced that in 10 years we'll laugh at the way we're working today. We need a production line-like innovation to fix work... Enter Deep Work.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.