The Power of Us

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

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

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is one for those who have an appetite for psychology.

It is by two authors of a brand new book that I was interested to check out because it covers some of the biggest themes that hybrid working is going to impact - the issue of group identity. I genuinely think this is one of the biggest things that companies need to be thinking about right now.

As we discuss a lot of firms have thought about mission or values but the very best organisations create a sense of collective identity in their teams (and look this might be slightly different identity for different themes).

Identity is often seen to be something negative in politics or society - mainly because it is so expertly used by people we don't like. But it's incredibly powerful for any group - and understanding it is vital. Group identity is a big predictor of your likelihood of being vaccinated, clever nations like New Zealand used it to set about creating 'a team of five million' to fight the disease.

The discussion is with by Jay Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer who as you’ll hear are both Canadian psychologists practicising in the US. Their book, The Power of Us, is out this week.

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0:00.0	The future is unpredictable at times that the Open University are the experts in
0:06.8	distance learning allowing you to fit study around your life. What's more you'll
0:12.3	have support from dedicated tutors every step of the way.
0:16.0	Now, suddenly your possibilities are open.
0:20.0	Search the Open University to find out more.
0:26.0	The Open University, the future is open. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about making work better. Hello, I'm Bruce
0:44.6	Dasely. Hope you're well. Hope you'll return to the office is going well. Found
0:49.4	myself on the tube at 8 a.m. One morning this week and the carriage was full. Interestingly it was
0:55.0	sort of a very different usage pattern to the evening and weekend. I've been using
0:58.7	the tube quite a lot. The tube in the evenings and the mornings tends to have a lot of younger people most of them not with masks on
1:06.8	The tube carriage this morning was
1:09.9	Was full of people wearing sort of tight fitting masks a few end 95 masks so
1:16.9	so obviously people sort of concerned about their safety very different to what was going on
1:22.1	I've been using the tub a lot. I'm quite heavily vaccinated actually
1:27.2	and I've sort of been getting on with life. I went to see a gig last week, I went to see Kidlroy about two weeks ago and to be honest it was so crowded
1:36.3	and so immensely chock a block. I didn't post any images of it just in case they ended up as
1:41.8	my epitaph and people said he's just
1:44.7	died of COVID and is it any wonder after he went to this gig a couple of weeks ago?
1:49.5	But I've been going to a few things and look, you know, celebrating the fact that science is giving us a return of life,
1:56.4	but it was just interesting to see the tube that was sort of so full of people, I think, being forced back to the office in some capacity and it's
2:07.1	been really interesting the sort of chatting to different organizations the companies that I generally talk to on a daily basis
2:16.1	they get I guess I've chatted to about 60, almost 60 firms now over the course of the
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