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.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 208
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
A career of kindness - Christie Watson on nurse's lives
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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 a …
Inside the 4 day week
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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 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 th…
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 do t…
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…
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 …
What next in your career?
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Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast - and the authors of a brand new book, The Squig…
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.
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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…
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…
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 b…
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 jo…
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 …
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 t…
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 secr…
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 o…
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 w…
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…
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 …
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 fo…