#118 The Post-COVID Ecomony - Nick Bloom

07/02/20 • 35 min

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This episode's guest is Nick Bloom, a fellow Brit and professor in economics at Stanford. He's been an avid researcher in remote working since 2014.
Pre-COVID likely only 8% of employees worked from home. Nick expects this to be 40% in the aftermath of the pandemic, an extraordinary transformation of economic life.

In this episode, we talk:
- What Nick learned studying working from home at 'China's Expedia' Ctrip
- The optimum set-up for home working
- The shape and drivers of inequality in today's society
- How lockdowns may be driving inequality
- The future for capitalism
Enjoy!
To your humanity,
Richard
Links:
Nick's research

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My guest this week, Csaba Toth arrived in the UK from Hungary in 2004 with enough money for a couple of nights in a hostel.
After a stint in hospitality, Csaba co-created a highly successful table-booking start-up. But despite his academic training in personality differences, he was unable to resolve his issues the CEO, which ultimately led to him leaving the business.
This spurred him to create Global DISC, a powerful assessment tool endorsed by John Mattone, coach to the late Steve Jobs.

In this episode, we talk:
- The difference between inclusion and diversity
- Why gender, age and ethnic diversity won’t necessarily drive company performance
- The Global DISC approach and how it differs from other personality tests
- What we mean by cognitive diversity and why it matters
- Why achieving inclusion can take intensive self-work and team development
Enjoy!
To your humanity,
Richard
Links:
Global DISC