Ep. 072 - Resilience Doesn't Equal Brilliance: Building Fortitude with Bruce Daisley
What if you could pick the brains of one of the brightest minds to have been an exemplary leader at YouTube and Twitter?
What if you could pick the brains of one of the brightest minds to have been an exemplary leader at YouTube and Twitter?
Bruce Daisley isn’t just all of those things - he’s also a Sunday Times bestselling author, presenter & culture coach with a view on resilience like no other.
Join us for a rethink on resilience, the surprising psychology behind better culture, and how to hone your hybrid workplace.
Key takeaways from this episode:
Resilience is a collective strength, not an individual trait
Coordinate your office time to master the hybrid approach
Social connections are paramount
Gary Gamp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garygamp
George Clode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeclode
Bruce Daisley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucedaisley/
Highlights:
“We struggle to synthesise resilience on demand, because the version that we’re trying to create is a fantasy notion. It’s not an individual trait, it’s a collective strength.” - 5:50 - Bruce Daisley
“In essence, I take issue with the whole theme of resilience largely because it can, in its worst version, be a form of victim blaming.” - 3:25 - Bruce Daisley
“There's a Goldilocks effect for childhood experience, where you want to have had at least some sense of having to overcome some degree of adversity - the challenge of it is that it's very difficult to synthesise.” - 18:30 - Bruce Daisley
“People now who work a hybrid job spend 20 hours a week in meetings. When bosses say work doesn’t feel the same outside the office, there might be a misattribution to some extent.” - 25:20 - Bruce Daisley
“At Twitter I used to find a funny tweet, and put it on the screen when presenting. There’s a great misattribution/cross pollination there. You put something funny on the screen, if people are laughing at it, they think you are funny. I have not done anything funny to this stage, other than press ‘Page Down’.” - 33:10 - Bruce Daisley
