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Office politics, collective leadership and AI disruption

A few people have asked me to do episodes on office politics and office interactions - one angle I wanted to look at that was through the lens of professional services fi

The simple answer to improving productivity: asking employees

Our jobs have turned into the place where we’re told what to do: show up and follow orders. That was the finding of the latest cycle of the long-running Skills and Employ

What is REALLY happening with AI and jobs

Bruce speaks with Daniel Susskind, economist and professor of business at Gresham College, about how AI is changing work, education, and the meaning of our jobs. Daniel

What hospitality teaches us about culture

Danny Meyer is one of the most respected restaurateurs in the world, but beyond the success of the likes of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack he's also b

Stop talking about culture - deal with behaviours

Proper ding dong this week. I have a fabulously enjoyable back-and-forth with the brilliant Professor Rob Briner. At one stage Rob says: ‘If you tell someone - whose fav

What chance do we have versus the machines?

Sarah O'Connor is a journalist for the Financial Times who specialises in writing about work and the evolution of our jobs. Over the last year or so that has meant a lot

Can one bad apple ruin your team?

Kate Murphy is the author a new book called Why We Click. It combines the very latest research into interpersonal synchrony - how we form bonds with others. It's an int

Your colleagues like you more than you realise…

Dr Gillian Sandstrom is a researcher whose work explores her fascination with our conversations with other people - whether colleagues, friends or strangers. She’s just p

Life Reclaimed with Pippa Grange

A return interview with Dr Pippa Grange, a performance ("regenerative") psychologist who has worked with the England men's football team and who has earned the admiration

We-ness: The secret cause of Psychological Safety

I saw a post by Professor Rob Briner about the enigma of psychological safety, and in the replies it was discussed that in fact PS isn't so much an enigma, there's eviden

The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you

Today's conversation is with Professor Benjamin Laker, someone I've long admired for his cutting edge work on the evolution of culture. His article on Meeting Free Days i

Flourishing at Work

Daniel Coyle returns to reflect on what has changed since we last spoke. He's moved attention to an examination of what contributes to us getting a fulfilling experience

What makes for the Best Place to Work

I'm joined by Daniel Zhao, chief economist of Glassdoor, who talks me through their new rankings of the best places to work in 2026. It's an intriguing list, is a car wa

Culture is built on 'moments of truth'

Kevin Green is the Chief People Officer for First Group. He's set about reinventing the culture of the organisation from the ground up. I heard Kevin speak at an event

People-watching in the workplace

Dr Karen Bridbord is the author of a new book, The Relationship-Driven Leader that invites us to bring a psychologist's lens to our job and the relationships with those a

What Gen Z need from work

Gen Z have been shaped by recessions, the pandemic, geopolitical instability, not to mention financial insecurity and world changing technology. That's the finding of th

Is training really corporate sludge?

Most company training is a waste of time that turns firms into bureaucratic sludge holes. That’s roughly the conclusion of today’s episode which is a conversation with An

Strong team identity delivers success

Jeremy Holt is a psychologist and leadership coach who has spent more than 20 years helping teams get better. Read his research about better team results. This episode i

To understand leadership, you need to understand identity

This is the second part of an interview with Professor Alex Haslam, the world's leading voice on the study of social identity. You can hear the first part of this interv

Everything is identity

“Why are we so fixated on the individual self? I think it was a big con. The individual self is a relatively modern invention. The idea that human psychology is about the