Being More Pirate
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sam Conniff Allende has spent his career building a youth marketing agency. Now he's concluded that the way to inspire younger workers is to channel the energy of the Golden Age of Piracy. In a fun discussion of pirates old and new Sam explains how the world would be a better place if we all tried to be a bit more pirate.
Sam's book Be More Pirate is published on 3rd May 2018. You can follow him on Twitter @SamConniff and @BeMorePirate
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a weekly series of podcasts about happiness and work culture. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, I'm Bruce Lee. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:19.0 | Over the last 46 episodes of so, |
| 0:21.0 | we've been looking at how to improve work, things that you can do to improve |
| 0:24.3 | your work using science. |
| 0:25.9 | Now that sound you can hear, I want to evoke the scene, I'm in downtown Berlin. |
| 0:30.8 | How about that? |
| 0:32.0 | As I'm here, I'm standing here, I can see the Brandenburg Gate. Such immense |
| 0:36.5 | history named after the 1990s House DJ Brandon Block, course famously had an altercation at the Brit awards he went |
| 0:47.1 | on to I seem to vaguely remember his mates told him he'd won a Brit award he went |
| 0:51.2 | on stage and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood told him to f off. But of course |
| 0:57.2 | the upside of that is they built a rather remarkable looking edifice here this gate they built as a tribute to him. |
| 1:05.0 | So things ended well. |
| 1:08.0 | And of course, actually I remember this was, |
| 1:10.0 | it was from here that Ronald Reagan gave that speech saying Mr Gorbachev |
| 1:16.3 | open your wall that Brandon Block play East Berlin and in fact Brandon Block did |
| 1:21.5 | then play East Berlin, did a tour with Jeremy Healy across the whole of the |
| 1:27.0 | eastern block and of course that's how we got to where we are today so Brandon Block truly deserves this incredible gate |
| 1:35.4 | that he's got here right so I'm in Berlin today you get a nicer sound quality out |
| 1:40.2 | on the streets I think you can you can get the sense of what's happening here. First |
| 1:43.8 | time I came to Berlin with a group of Birmingham City fans, my friends, we |
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