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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Obliquity - achieving happiness indirectly

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

Science, Culture, Management, Social Sciences, Work, Business, Workplace Culture

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In 2010 John Kay wrote an article for the FT called Obliquity. It proved so popular that it became a best selling book. Obliquity is the concept that to achieve what we want to do we should aim for other things - we achieve our goals obliquely. Tweet us your feedback @eatsleepwkrpt


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0:00.0

Well, if you're knocked this wall through, you could over-plan the living area.

0:03.2

So I'm thinking burnt oka, paired with some terracotta tiles, vary in season right now.

0:07.3

When it comes to making big decisions for how we improve our homes, we rely on the advice of experts.

0:12.3

So shouldn't it be the same for the way we

0:14.1

heat and power them at EDF we're specialists in low-carbon technology for

0:18.0

homes we've installed thousands of air source heat pumps solar panels and

0:21.3

batteries across the country and we also have useful

0:23.7

content to help you make the right decision for your home.

0:26.4

Search edf energy.com slash energy specialist to find out more. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a weekly series of podcasts about happiness and work culture.

0:47.0

Hello? Are you here for the podcast? The podcast about work culture and happiness.

0:59.0

This is it. Hello.

1:01.0

Here's some admin. You can find us on Twitter by searching Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

1:05.0

This week I tweeted about Netflix updating their culture document and about all the

1:09.7

challenges, the ongoing saga of Uber updating a couple of different episodes there.

1:15.2

I've also got a personal Twitter actually if you'd like to read what my favourite album

1:18.6

of the year is or me droning on about social justice. I think this could be your go-to account. People who are

1:25.1

connected with me on LinkedIn got slightly spammy email about the podcast this

1:28.8

week. My LinkedIn is not what you'd call best practice. The political conversation I initiated on there a couple

1:34.3

of weeks ago got so out of hand I ended up blocking a few people. Who knew that LinkedIn even had a block

1:39.4

function? It was idiotic behavior and I don't know do you ever wonder if you're the idiot my colleague and friend Dara said if you haven't worked out who the idiot is after the first 10 minutes of a meeting it means it's probably you.

1:54.9

He didn't use the word idiot to be fair he's got an obscenely toxic mouth.

1:59.0

He even gave one of his kids a swear word for a name.

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