Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation
25 episodes
1 week ago
The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
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The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
Listen and subscribe to The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer wherever you get your podcasts.
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is produced by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Professors.fm.
Rebecca Hinds on Overcoming a "Weapon of Mass Dysfunction": Meetings
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer
33 minutes 58 seconds
3 weeks ago
Rebecca Hinds on Overcoming a "Weapon of Mass Dysfunction": Meetings
It doesn’t matter where you work—bad meetings are a universal pain point. But they don’t have to be.
Rebecca Hinds is an organizational researcher who has spent the past 15 years helping teams fix their broken meetings—and broken collaboration in general. Hinds has applied her Stanford PhD to the future of work, founding think tanks at two technology companies, and is now the author of the forthcoming book, Your Best Meeting Ever: Seven Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done, out February 2026.
Hinds joins organizational culture experts Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava to discuss how bad meetings can degrade your company’s culture, the purpose meetings should actually serve, and how to start treating meetings as your most valuable product—and not an inevitable headache.
Learn more about The Culture Kit and find the full transcript: https://haas.berkeley.edu/culture/culture-kit-podcast/
*The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is a production of Haas School of Business and is produced by University FM.*
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer
The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
Listen and subscribe to The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer wherever you get your podcasts.
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is produced by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Professors.fm.
