Rethinking resilience in the modern workplace

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.

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00:00 – 02:00 | Introduction and the case for rethinking resilience
02:00 – 06:00 | Resilience isn’t training – it’s structure
06:00 – 10:00 | Loneliness: The hidden enemy of leadership
10:00 – 14:00 | Building connection and culture in hybrid teams
14:00 – 18:00 | Communication overload and the meeting trap
18:00 – 22:00 | Why meetings are status games—and how to fix them
22:00 – 27:00 | Scaling culture with intent: Lessons from Twitter
27:00 – 31:00 | Hiring for culture fit, not just credentials
31:00 – 36:00 | The pressure of growth and internal realities
36:00 – 45:00 | Final reflections on modern leadership and connection