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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

The lies we tell about work (interview with Marcus Buckingham)

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

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

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.comMarcus Buckingham is a research who has specialised in debunking some of the lies that pervade our jobs. His discoveries are eye-popping. Company culture can't be measured, 'OKRs' (goals) never work and much more. It's a compelling and entertaining listen.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode is brought to you an association with Percbox.com.

0:03.7

You'd have heard that Percbox have been sponsoring the latest series of episodes,

0:07.1

but how could they help you? Well, Percbox have made a platform designed

0:11.3

to help you motivate and recognize your team.

0:13.6

That includes measuring the engagement of your employees, rewarding superstar workers

0:18.4

and providing a flexible health care benefit to support your employee's well-being. If you're looking to

0:23.6

improve the employee experience, Percbox is the place. Find out more at

0:28.3

Percbox.com. What you're doing this Friday? This Friday marks the latest global climate strike.

0:34.3

Started by Greta Tundberg, the global climate strike has now spread around the world

0:38.8

and Friday the 20th September's looks to be the biggest yet.

0:42.4

All of us are staring the prospect

0:44.4

to the global climate emergency right in the face. Things are getting

0:48.0

incredibly serious and the question is when are you going to stand up and be

0:51.6

counted? Make sure your voice is heard this Friday, get involved, also go to the website global climate strike

0:58.6

net. In years to come people will say were you on the streets for the 20th September I hope to see

1:04.7

you there. Hello there this is Eat Sleep Workopie I'm Bruce Dasley it's a

1:09.5

podcast about making work better. Hello there you back again it's a podcast about making work better.

1:18.0

Specifically how can any of us improve the work culture and our jobs and can we we make our daily employment feel less like a chore and

1:24.8

more rewarding? Each episode we look inside the evidence behind better working, delving into

1:30.0

psychology, neuroscience, research into activating our motivations for our jobs.

1:36.0

Today's episode is sort of provocative, stimulating, and will definitely challenge you.

1:42.0

It's, say if I said to you that maybe all the goals that you set on at work are a waste of breath,

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