management - One Man & His Blog

How BuzzFeed UK handles its redundancies will tell us a lot about the future of the business

BuzzFeed UK to make 45 staff redundant The website’s London workforce was briefed on the plans on Thursday evening. In a tweet later confirmed by the company, media and

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coffee

Don't trust over-worked decaf drinkers

If you’re in an office full of over-worked journalists, the coffee drinkers are the ones to trust: According to a recent study, caffeine helps you resist pressure to act unethically at work. Oh, alright then. It’s more complex than that. The research

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31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion

I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive. Ive himself remains somewhat elusive in the story, but his work leaps out, and in the end, that’s what matters. The stuff about his childhood and early entry into

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corporate culture

The power of "why?"

Christopher Murphy, writing for Multidisciplinary Design on “human resource”: It’s no wonder monolithic businesses often fail. They grow and, in so doing, lose sight of what matters; people become humans and, in that subtle, but important semantic shift the people – the passionate individuals

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corporate life

Corporate voice is inherently impersonal

James O’Brien, quoting Alex Goldfayn: “Most of the content that companies put out on social media doesn’t catch on,” he said. “It’s too corporate and promotional. Despite the money invested — and the myriad social-media marketing agencies that have popped up — there

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community

Leadership without organisation

Lloyd Davis: Someone needs to say they’re going to show up for it. That’s what makes stuff happen. Lots of other important things help too, but it really kicks off when someone says “I’m going to be there or do this,

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BIg Data - doing business faster than real-time

McKinsey & Company tell us what “faster than real time” actually means… ** Philipp Nattermann, Partner** What is big data and where is it coming from? Every web interaction, transaction, social media posting is creating. 1200 Exobytes of data is being generated this year – 95%

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Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day one

Links to my liveblogs of day one of Like Minds Exeter 2012**Morning session:**- [Russ Lidstone: Why what you do matters](http://wearelikeminds.com/like-minds-2012/russ-lidstone-why-what-you-do-matters) – Russ kicked off the “ideas festival” with a talk that played straight to the core issues of

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big companies

Has your CEO lost touch with your industry?

As a recent evictee from the big corporate world, who spends some of his time working for big corporates, I’m still fascinated by the problems these huge companies face in adapting to times of massive change. I noted this post by Seth Godin

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apple

Apple's Knight of design

It’s not often that a British paper gets an interview that the hungry jackals of the tech blogs all end up quoting – but the* Evening Standard* managed it. Mark Prigg’s interview with Sir Jonathan Ive is fascinating: A: That’s quite unusual,

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creativity

Dreamworks: building a creative business - #ftmedia12

[![](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 8 Mar 2012 15:24.jpg)](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 8 Mar 2012 15:24.jpg)Dan Satterthwaite, head of human resources at [Dreamworks Animation](http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/ "DreamWorks Animation") gave a fascinating talk about how they’

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leweb

LeWeb: Gary Vaynerchuk in Quotes

“I hate the term social media. I liked Web 2.0. Why? Corporations see “media” and think it’s time to start talking at people again.” “You talk too much about scaling at this conference.” “How do I do it? I fucking try.” [on

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leadership

#likeminds - Karren Brooks teaches us to be here, now

What is more important: the inventor or the invented? Karren Brooks is kicking off her session with questions. In every conference there must be a session that’s hard to liveblog. This is proving to be it. She’s throwing a lot of ideas

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innovation

Making innovation work in large businesses

Interesting Forbes article on the problems Microsoft faces. It is making good money, but is failing to grow. Why? It is failing to execute on innovation. The solution? A better working relationship between the innovators and those running the traditional business: As with any

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dconstruct

dConstruct 2010: John Gruber on why your site needs an auteur

dConstruct is proving to be more a cultural conference rather than a design or tech one. And I don’t mean cultural in the “theatre, opera, arts, daaaahling” sense. No,