The Alienation Epidemic: Reconnecting Employees to Meaningful Work In today’s fast-paced and often stressful work environment where mental health issues are rife, the concept of joy in the workplace has gained significant attention. I know several organizations...
Rediscovering the Joy of Play to Boost Creativity and Well-Being at Work This is potentially one of the most disruptive questions you could ask at work: Do you like to play? As adults at work, so many individuals seem constantly to be at odds with their work. Burnout,...
Minter Dialogue with Graham Allcott Graham Allcott is CEO of Think Productive, offering practical support to organisations that want to increase productivity. He’s also a multiple time bestselling author, having written the very successful “How to Be a...
A few years ago I started to think about the most untapped levers of productivity in business being empathy, sleep and purpose, which I have converted into the acronym ESP. I penned a blog post in 2018 that summarized my opinion. It turns out that, beyond the data...
A Freakonomics podcast from Nov 2017 discussed how productivity gains (and exponential ideas) were grinding to a halt (“Are we running out of Ideas?”). At the very least, the idea of endless productivity gains was called into question. If Moore’s Law may have held...