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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

The Culture of Teams - the Boat Race and Camp Bastion

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

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

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark De Rond is an ethnographer who embeds himself with teams under pressure. What's the culture like in a field hospital in Camp Bastion, in the boat race crew?Mark's latest book 'Doctors at War' - a first hand account of the culture in Camp Bastion's hospital - is out this week.

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0:54.0

I've always looked at the boat race with so many questions,

0:58.0

and the main question is, how does this count as a TV show?

1:01.0

But even though the boat race definitely isn't my idea of

1:04.7

diversity, it's certainly a test case of performance under pressure. Today's

1:09.8

guest Mark Durand is an expert in teams who thrive in those conditions.

1:14.8

He spent his life embedded with teams like military hospitals in Camp Bastion with the

1:19.5

boat race crew.

1:21.0

And the boat race is definitely an example of a team that is win at all costs.

1:26.0

Ready.

1:30.0

Go, squeeze there!

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Squeeze there! Squeeze there! So, squeeze there, squeeze there,

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squeeze there.

1:35.0

Think of the rhythm now.

1:37.0

Cambridge rhythm, we're sitting two seats down

1:40.0

and we're right on it.

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