What's stopping you from doing your best work ever?

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

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

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What's stopping you from you doing your best work ever? That's the question that Aaron Dignan (working at his culture consultancy, The Ready) asks the companies he meets.

Often the biggest barrier to us doing our best work is often our own attitude and mindset - and Dignan takes us step by step into his process. Aaron's book Brave New Work, is out now.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Johann Hari's TED Talk

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to an association with Percbox.
0:03.1	Anyone who's come within an inch of Percbox knows they take employee happiness very seriously.
0:08.9	That's why they're organizing the first ever Percbox Workplace Culture Awards, a nationwide competition celebrating the businesses
0:16.6	that go over and above to make people happy.
0:19.7	It doesn't matter if you're a startup with a head count of 10 or an established industry
0:23.6	Titan as long as your business believes in putting people first you could be in
0:27.7	with a chance of winning a fabulous team party courtesy of Perkbox. Go to Awards. Perkbox.com to nominate your company or another
0:37.4	company of your choice. Nominations close on the 31st October. The winners will
0:42.1	be chosen by a public vote through November. Happy
0:45.8	Nominating.
0:48.8	Hello this is Bruce Easely, this is Eat Sleep, Work Repeat.
0:57.0	Has work been intense for you recently? Work has been deeply intense for me and I've struggled
1:02.0	to get new episodes done on the weekends
1:04.0	because I've felt so spent. September October is always hectic and it's
1:09.1	really done me in so I'm human, sue me. Now I have got about 10 episodes recorded, but my plan is to do
1:17.3	something interesting with them and it's such a colossal job I've sort of been putting it off.
1:21.6	Alongside work being hectic I've had a lot of work travel and then I did this TEDx talk in Newcastle and I thought when I was planning it I thought
1:30.6	should I do something brand new or should I do something familiar?
1:34.8	You know, I've been doing presentations for my book and there's probably the greatest hits of
1:39.6	that I thought would be very easy.
1:41.9	And I thought, I'm going to try something brand new but I'll be
1:45.1	honest with you while I was doing it I kind of lost my way early on because it'd
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