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What can anthropology teach us about the way we work?

Episode Summary

Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett explains how anthropology can shed light on the way we behave in the workplace, identifying the hidden tribes within the office, and pinpointing which rituals are binding together a team.

Episode Notes

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.  

In this special interview series from the RSA its chief executive, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for one big idea to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Gillian Tett is Editor-at-Large at the Financial Times and the author of Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life

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