Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.
corporate life
A collection of 23 posts
Corporate trust is the first victim of redundancy
John Robinson on laying off journalists: In the ensuing days, it was clear that a bond between the company and the employee was broken. The deal had been this: They would work hard, do good work, miss family dinners, have…
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours Bob Doak works for WL Gore & Associates – a global business whose products you’ve probably worn. He’…
Every corporate meeting ever
Weird Al, again, from his new album, Mandatory Fun…
Nightmares of tech past
Every time I think a proper job would be nice again… I remember a grey slab I was issued by the tech quartermasters when I started my last proper job, packed with software designed to process ideas and thoughts into…
Stop working so damn hard
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working. Why? The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers, overtime raises the…
Where corporate innovation dies
Why big companies can’t innovate: Big companies have plenty of great ideas, but they do not innovate because they need a whole hierarchy of people to agree that a new idea is good in order to pursue it. If…
The cold war with IT
Reasons I love being self-employed #7: For reasons we don’t fully understand, IT Vs the rest of the company is a bitter cold war of control. The only way to work in a modern office is to bring your…