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Drive: The Truth about what Motivates usDaniel Pink10:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Photo by Perry Grone on Unsplash This short video from Charles Duhigg covers how Google aims to build great teams and what sort of things are needed for that to happen. How Google builds…

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash This video explores the concept of Psychological Safety. This is at the core of the Google research on great teams and working spaces. It is particularly true for…

Do you think backbiting is happening at your workplace? In this video, Glenn Rolfsen explores what can create of a toxic work environment. He presents the factors that determine the quality of your…

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash I recently discovered this video thanks to Boaz Zehavi at Vonage. The TED talk by Eduardo Briceño is excellent and covers a lots of relevant topics​ to Business…

Photo by Tammy Strot on Unsplash Gojko Adzic and Christian Hassa did a keynote for Playcamp 2016 in which they looked at some tools for Impact Mapping. In the preamble to the tools they…

What do you think is the relationship between Happiness and Success? Earlier this year I read Shawn Achor’s “The Happiness Advantage”. Apart from being an entertaining read, it’s a real eye-opener on how…

“It's like riding a bike.” “It's like riding a bike” is a phrase that we use in English that means, “once you've learned how to do something, you will never forget it.” This…

We have a sticker that says “utilisation is the enemy of flow”. All too often at work, we want everyone to be super busy all of the time – without realising it, we…

“The peformance of a system depends on how the parts fit, not how they act taken separately.”Dr. Russell Ackoff In this inspiring talk, Ackoff discusses the importance of looking at systems as a…

Professor Sumantra Ghoshal talks about culture at the World Economic Forum – what he refers to as “The Smell of the Place”. He talks about what management can do to create and sustain…

Wardley Maps are a really powerful tool for deciding strategy. Here is Simon Wardley giving a very entertaining Keynote at OSCON 2014 where he discusses how he came to invent it as a…

Captain David Marquet gives us his view on leadership. This video is a great overview of his wonderful book “Turn the Ship Around!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKH2uSax8U

Tom Hulme talks to us about how design and user experience don't always see eye to eye. He explores how we can fix this through the lens of desire paths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9B8PmUR64U

Matthew Syed explores the differences between growth and fixed mindsets and how our attitude to failure governs our success. It's a topic he also explores in his wonderful book Black Box Thinking. <a…

Gary Hamel argues that the most important invention of the last 100 years is management. He discusses that we are using management tools and techniques which are no longer fit for purpose for…

Sir Dave Brailsford talks about how small, incremental gains helped British Cycling become successful. He discusses continuous improvement and how to align teams behind a goal to win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQxYlu12ji8

Niklas Modig uses the example of a child needing medical help to illustrate the difference between flow efficiency and resource efficiency. It serves as an excellent emotional hook to highlight this key idea…

Tiffany Shlain discusses the skills we need to thrive in today's world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937iCwJd3fI

Ever had a bad door experience? No matter how hard you pull, it won't open and then you realise you need to push. Bad doors are everywhere. In this video, Joe Posner has…

Could you build an MVP in only one week? The Nordstrom Innovation Lab challenged themselves to do just that in plain sight of their customers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NFH3VC6LNs

“Empathy is feeling with people”. In this beautifully designed short video from RSA, Brené Brown talks us through Empathy. What it is, how it feels, and how it benefits those that need it….

This short but informative video takes a look at the key question from Chip & Dan Heath’s book ‘Switch’. Why is it hard to make lasting change even when the change is good…

This short but inspiring video is an excerpt from Channel 4's Boss to Boss series with England's Mens Football manager, Gareth Southgate, and Mercedes F1 manager, Toto Wolff. Their exchange was a masterclass…