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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

062: Secrets to Creating an Awesome Workplace (Andrew Sykes of Habits at Work)

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business, Business:careers

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Sykes founded the Behavioral Research Applied Technology Laboratory (BRATLAB) to uncover which habits create health, happiness, security and performance for people, and his employer-focused consulting team, Habits at Work, literally puts habit creation to work to create high-performance organizations. Andrew is a passionate advocate for the power of habits to create thriving, high-performance employees and companies. Born and raised in South Africa, he... *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, & Resources Mentioned on this episode visit here: Andrew Sykes Interview. ***

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0:00.0

If you're not embarrassed of the work that you did three months ago, you're not growing

0:09.6

fast enough.

0:11.0

Companies, imagination is a great substitute for money.

0:19.2

But two choices and entrepreneur, you can build a business that uses up employees to build

0:25.0

your business and save your customers.

0:26.6

Or you can run a business that fills up employees.

0:29.7

And I would argue that's more sustainable and you're having employees take care of customers

0:33.2

if you take care of them.

0:36.6

If you would mind just introducing us yourself, Thomas, a little bit about your company

0:43.0

and where you're coming from today.

0:45.2

My name is Andrew Sykes.

0:46.9

I lead a research lab called Bret Lab.

0:50.5

It stands for the Behavioral Research Applied Technology Laboratory.

0:54.8

It's an organization that studies which habits really make a difference to human performance

1:00.3

in life and at work and asks the question, how do we design the world and work in particular

1:06.6

to make it easier and natural for people to practice these habits, throught by the experience

1:11.2

and the support they get from the employer in practicing those habits.

1:14.9

And I also lead habits at work, a consulting firm that brings this behavioral research

1:20.4

to life and helps companies to future-proof their business against the changes and the competitive

1:26.6

landscape that they face.

1:28.4

I noticed there might be an accent.

1:30.0

Where are you from originally?

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