Learnings From the Worlds Largest Trial of the Four Day Work Week
From fish and chip shops to financial services firms — More than 3,000 workers at 60 companies took part The idea of a four-day workweek has been gaining traction over the last few years, due to successful experiments across the UK, US, Japan, Sweden, and New Zealand. Now the results of the world’s largest trial, […]
Spain’s Plan to Trial the Four-Day Working Week Nationwide
200 companies to participate, creating one of the biggest four-day work experiments in the world Earlier this year, left-wing Spanish political party Más País announced that the government had accepted its proposal to trial a four-day working week. Following further talks this month, the Government has agreed to launch a pilot project for companies interested […]
How James Patterson Turned a Writing Side Hustle Into a $750 Million Fortune
Lessons from the one-man fiction factory At 73 years old, James Patterson has sold more than 425 million copies of his 200 novels. Together with his co-authors, he has been the world’s best-selling author since 2001, ahead of J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, and Dan Brown. His hardcover books account for one out of every 17 […]
5 Strategies to Overcome Overwhelming New Jobs
why feeling uncomfortable is key to career growth The first few weeks of a new job can be completely overwhelming. Nothing feels familiar, you feel like everyone is constantly evaluating you, and you’re suddenly inundated with a slew of projects, often with no guidance on how to complete them. I recently made a big switch […]
The (Simple) Method a French Start-up Used to Remove Meetings and Take Back Control of Their Time
A case study for transforming your team’s meeting culture When did work become a series of back-to-back meetings, where you look back at your day and find you haven’t produced anything, created anything, learned anything? And what’s worse your inbox has grown while you’ve been in endless meetings making it even harder to focus on […]
Study Reveals TV Really Does Rot Your Brain — Here’s Why I’m Not Giving It Up
Resetting my relationship with television to live a more balanced life After a long day, there’s nothing better than zoning out in front of the TV and getting lost in the worlds of characters from your favorite shows. For as long as I can remember I have turned to television as a source of comfort, […]
A Ten-Step Process for Team Leaders to Reduce Meeting Overload and Take Back Their Time
My blueprint (which you should steal) for freeing your time A few months ago, I started a new job as the leader of a busy team of consultants. Within days of starting, I found myself inundated with meetings, and the expectation seemed to be that I represent our team at board meetings, client meetings, external […]
7 Mindfulness Practices to Lead With Authority and Strength
Lessons from 15 years of working with (and not against) anxiety
A Five-Step Process to Help New Managers Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Over the last 15 years, I have worked in 8 different organizations and held 10 roles with increasing levels of responsibility. The feeling of getting a new job is always great — but each new role is also a step outside of my comfort zone, and into foreign territory. And as the roles have gotten […]
Techniques to Help You Return to Work While Grieving the Death of a Loved One
It’s easy to forget in a professional environment that everyone is human. A few months ago, my father suddenly died. It was such a surreal moment; I’d spoken to him the night before, then the next day I received a call from my mother saying he’d had a stroke and was gone. Losing parents is […]