Adam Grant - Optimism about work culture
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Professor Adam Grant is the most important business writer in the world - a man who says his study is focussing on how to make work suck less.
Adam is author of books like Give and Take, Option B, Originals, he's also the host of a chart topping podcast on work culture called Work Life with TED.
Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years - his books have told over a million copies .
Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink; Option B, with Sheryl Sandberg, is a #1 bestseller on facing adversity and building resilience.
For more about Bridgwater read here http://uk.businessinsider.com/bridgewater-ranked-employees-by-performance-2018-3
The full episode is live on the website: eatsleepworkrepeat.fm
Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website.
Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square. |
| 0:03.4 | The integrated point of sale system built four restaurants. |
| 0:06.7 | It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one. |
| 0:10.1 | It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week. |
| 0:18.0 | Join at Square.com. Square, big in restaurants. |
| 0:22.0 | Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic |
| 0:26.1 | Money Regulations 2011. |
| 0:27.7 | Registered reference number 900846. Hi I'm Bruce Daysley, this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. It's a podcast about |
| 0:38.6 | happiness and work culture. How can you turn Sunday night Fear into Monday Morning Happiness? |
| 0:44.0 | Back for a third series for the next 20 episodes or so. |
| 0:47.0 | Let me tell you what we've got lined up, not just offices, |
| 0:49.0 | we're going to be looking at how to build winning cultures in retail, |
| 0:52.0 | in the police, in the fire service, basically |
| 0:54.9 | any team. What are the lessons that we can all learn about improving work by looking at other |
| 0:59.2 | teams? The summer was nice for just watching the England football team |
| 1:03.7 | Seemingly enjoying themselves. So I'm speaking to the psychologists for the England team |
| 1:08.4 | Pippa Grange. I'm speaking to firefighters about the importance of laughter in times |
| 1:13.0 | of stress speaking to the chief constable, one of the biggest |
| 1:16.0 | police forces in the country about building a trusted culture there. |
| 1:20.0 | How can you change your culture from speaking to the Harvard professor who was hired by |
| 1:24.0 | Uber to turn around their culture. I'm speaking to marketing legend Seth Godin about how you might try |
| 1:29.7 | and build a new culture in your own organisation. The guy who invented workplace engagement |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bruce Daisley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Bruce Daisley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.