Rethinking resilience in the modern workplace — with Bruce Daisley
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In this episode of The Good Growth Podcast, we sit down with Bruce Daisley — workplace culture expert, bestselling author, and former VP at Twitter and YouTube — for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, resilience, and the realities of scaling fast-growing businesses.
Bruce shares his personal lessons from leading Twitter through hypergrowth, introduces a powerful framework for understanding resilience, and explores the changing nature of work in a hybrid world, discussing new data from BGF’s portfolio. Bruce offers practical insights for founders and leaders on how to maintain culture, focus, and connection in an environment that rarely slows down.
Whether you're scaling a startup, leading a team, or navigating the complexity of modern work, this is an episode you won't want to miss.
Chapters
1. Introduction and the case for rethinking resilience (00:00:00)
2. Resilience isn’t training – it’s structure (00:02:00)
3. Loneliness: The hidden enemy of leadership (00:06:00)
4. Building connection and culture in hybrid teams (00:10:00)
5. Communication overload and the meeting trap (00:14:00)
6. Why meetings are status games—and how to fix them (00:18:00)
7. Scaling culture with intent: Lessons from Twitter (00:22:00)
8. Hiring for culture fit, not just credentials (00:27:00)
9. The pressure of growth and internal realities (00:31:00)
10. Final reflections on modern leadership and connection (00:36:00)
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