Diversity and creative thinking - the power of rebel ideas (with Matthew Syed)

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

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

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This episode is about the power of diverse thinking. Our guest is the thinker, writer, commentator Matthew Syed.

Matthew represented Great Britain in table tennis at the Barcelona and Sydney Olympics. He’s since gone on to the one of the biggest, most successful business writers in the UK with his books like Bounce in 2010, Black Box Thinking in 2015, a kid’s book You Are Awesome in 2018 and Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking in 2019.

Rebel Ideas has just come out in paperback this week. If you enjoyed this episode please do share it on social media and get in touch via the website, I’d love to hear from you.

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0:41.8	I've not done a lot of episodes in the lockdown. I feel
0:44.1	that the topic of homeworking very quickly reach saturation levels of coverage and I don't
0:49.6	know about you but I'm finding the rhythm of trying to get my Wi-Fi to work and then get down to the supermarket and the
0:57.1	It's all an ordeal enough without me lecturing you on how to be more productive
1:01.6	If you are interested and hungry for more of that W. F. H.
1:06.2	content, the newsletter that went out alongside this episode has two podcasts to listen to that
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1:15.1	Eat Sleep Work Repeat.com.
1:17.5	Today's episode is about the power of diverse thinking and our guest is the brilliant thinker, writer, commentator Matthew sighed.
1:27.0	Matthew has got a wonderful career actually, you know, he's got like one of those dream careers.
1:32.0	He represented Great Britain at table tennis
1:35.3	at the Barcelona and Sydney Olympics.
1:37.9	He's gone on to become one the biggest, most successful
1:40.9	and I think most respected writers for business books in the UK with books like
1:45.6	Bounce in 2010 blackbox thinking in 2015 he wrote a kids book called You Are Awesome in 2018 and Rebel Ideas, The Power of Diverse Thinking,
1:56.7	is his most recent book.
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