Episode 1: Crabs

Episode 1: Crabs

Author: Yahoo Finance UK October 17, 2018 Duration: 27:08

Join Yahoo Finance's Head of UK Finance, Lianna Brinded, as she explores crab mentality with renowned neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart.

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The Jungle podcast is a new 10-part series that unpacks productivity lessons from nature, with Dr Swart explaining crab mentality in episode one. Dr Swart reveals her top strategy for surviving a stressful work environment.


"This isn't just all about leadership and business, it's about primal human behaviours and the crab is a really good analogy for not being able to let go and getting locked into a certain behaviour or way of thinking and once you're on that path it's sort of like a failure to admit to behave that way and you should go and behave differently," said Dr. Swart, who is also a medical doctor, Faculty at MIT Sloan, and award-winning author of Neuroscience for Leadership and The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life.


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CREDITS

Hosted by Lianna Brinded

Produced by Caithlin Mercer & Lianna Brinded

Sound editing by Lolita Laguna

Music by Gregory Moore

Cover design by Katy Bowman


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Ever feel like the modern workplace operates on its own strange, unpredictable ecosystem? That's the territory explored in Yahoo Finance Presents It's a Jungle Out There, a business podcast from Yahoo Finance UK that finds surprising parallels between the natural world and our professional lives. Led by Lianna Brinded, head of Yahoo Finance UK, conversations here move beyond standard management theory. Instead, they draw on observations from nature-how animal groups collaborate, how systems adapt to survive-to reframe common challenges around productivity, leadership, and team dynamics. Each episode brings in experts and thinkers to dissect these ideas, offering tangible strategies for navigating your career path and fostering better collaboration with colleagues. It’s for anyone looking for a fresh, unconventional perspective on work, where insights don't come from a textbook but from the wider world around us. This podcast provides a thoughtful break from the noise, asking what we can learn from the resilience and efficiency found in the wild to thrive in our own concrete jungles.
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