Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

April 15, 2020

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

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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.

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley.

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