Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

MAKE WORK BETTER. Eat Sleep Work Repeat is the best podcast about workplace culture - it's been listened to millions of times. Bruce Daisley brings a curious mind to discussions about our jobs and the role they play in our lives. Sign up for the newsletter Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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April 28, 2025 34 mins

"There's this concept called inbox zero, where everyone tries to get to their inbox down to zero. But I would suggest that a more noble pursuit is that of calendar zero".


I chatted to Howard Lerman this week. I was blown away by this discussion - it captured exactly what is wrong about current work, and why back-to-back meetings are going to lead to many organisations missing the opportunity of this vital moment.


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Zach Mercurio talks about mattering

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The next two podcasts I see as a piece with each other, today is about meaning the next one is about mattering. Collectively I feel they present serious substance about the foundations of good culture.


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There’s some overlap - the authors today,Tamara Myles and Wes Adams, have done research with next week’s guest Zach Mercurio. One of today’s guests Tamara Myles said one of the mo...

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March 21, 2025 32 mins

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Someone posted on LinkedIn that the podcast had died. Or I had died. But he is risen! I'm back with a great discussion, powerful in its simplicity.


Psychologists Dr. Patricia Grabarek and Dr. Katina Sawyer have created a guidebook for anyone who wants to make things better for their teams. In it they suggest that managers need to set the tone for our colleagues. Yes, of course I hear you say but it'...

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What do your typos say about you?


What's the right medium to build connection with your colleagues?


How did Shopify and Netflix reinvent their communication?


How can any of ...

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Today's episode is an Avengers Assembled of podcasts about work. I join host Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis from the Squiggly Careers podcast, as well as Isabel Berwick from the FT's Working It and Jimmy McCloughlin from Jimmy's Jobs.


We talk AI, asking payrises, RTO and much mor...

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December 6, 2024 42 mins

Michael Morris's book Tribal covers the codes that bond humans together. It has been shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award 2024. It came runner-up to 'Supremacy' by Parmy Olson.


He explains that humans are inspired by peer codes, human codes and ancestor codes when it comes to their behaviour - and he gives plenty of insight of how we could build more tightly bonded groups in our own teams.


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November 26, 2024 40 mins

Everywhere we look we see someone who is outraged - and plenty of that anger makes its way to the workplace.


The last time President Trump was in power it led to employees becoming more active - who knows if the same will happen in 2025.


Karthik Ramanna talks us through the way to deal with outrage - and the actions that any leader can take to make the workplace a better place. His new book is out now.


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Tiffany Gaskell outlines coaching as a route to transformational leadership


Tiffany Gaskell is the co-author of Coaching for Performance, the top-selling guide to coaching first published by Sir John Whitmore the inventor of the discipline.


It's curious to consider that there was a founder of coaching, and Tiffany takes me through the history of the practice, how it took hold and where it is toda...

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Brigid Schulte is a journalist and writer who brings a reporter's ear for stories to her exploration of modern work.

Over the course of a decade Schulte has talked to people about the impact their jobs has on their lives - and has explored any hope that we might be able to make this better.


Her new book, Over Work and paints a hopeful image of how we might fix the toxic element...

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October 10, 2024 41 mins

Colin Ellis is a consultant and author who spends his time working with organisations to improve their culture. He's turned his attention to why some companies go bad in a new book Detox Your Culture. He talked me through what has gone wrong at the likes of ITV's This Morning, the CBI, The Ellen Show and Boeing.


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How can any of us build a more effective team?


Owen Eastwood is one of the world’s most in demand performance coaches, with a focus on team culture & leading. Owen has worked with some of the most successful sporting sides in the world. He also works with corporate teams wrestling with similar themes.

Last year I talked to Owen about his work on belonging and identity but I wanted to pick his brains ...

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September 11, 2024 54 mins

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How important is a happy workforce? According to Mark Price, the former boss of Waitrose, it's the main thing that leaders should be thinking about. Make your workforce happy and the profits will follow. Mark's new book is Happy Economics.


To prove it Mark cites his experience running the supermarket chain, when with a goal of workers happiness he made it the fastest-growing, most p...

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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office


You might think an episode about improv comedy might be a stretch for a podcast about making work better. But in fact as Kelly Leonard explains today the skills of improv comedy are the most important ones that will determine our success at work. 


Kelly helps to run Second City, the world's famous famous impr...

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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office


In the 2000s a book called Fish! A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results became a bestseller. A small book, it was often used by companies accompanying a video of the same name. Together the two told a story of the culture of the fish market in Seattle, a noisy, bombastic place, but a place that was fill...

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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office


This is the second episode about rituals - the first one is next to it in the podcast feed, it's an interview with Kursat Ozenc about how rituals can be used to create culture. This episode goes into real life examples.


Claudia Wallace talks about Crisp Thursday (Connection)

Andy Puleston talks about Pizza Meetings...

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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office


Kursat Ozenc is a product designer who he teaches at Stanford university, He teaches on the subject that we can all learn from which is the idea that culture can be designed. The specific tool he uses to design culture is the creation of workplace rituals. 


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Flow is the state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.”

Presence is to be in a flow state of connection with others.


Here’s the last discussion about the Happiness Track

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Emma’s new book Sovereign

HBR: The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy

HBR: Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive


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Today’s top episode goes to the heart of an issue that a lot of people raise with me.


They say ‘where do you start when changing a culture’.


To some extent it’s what the episode about the hospital trust in Barking was about, going in and changing the culture of a huge organisation.


I saw one of today’s guests Darren Ashby speak at an event - tal...

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Isabel Berwick is a writer and podcaster who focusses on the evolving state of modern work. I’ve celebrated her podcast Working It many times here

(here’s her specials on the 4-day week for example, or her special on meeting-free days was essential listening). I love its ability to react rapidly to the biggest news stories of the moment and to drop a snackable episode midweek.

I talked to her about her opinions on modern work, going...

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