corporate life
Microsoft does sci-fi offices really well Paid Members Public
Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.
Corporate trust is the first victim of redundancy Paid Members Public
John Robinson on laying off journalists [http://johnlrobinson.com/2015/04/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 coworkers critique their
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun Paid Members Public
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/bob-doak.jpg] Bob Doak [http://2014.meaningconference.co.uk/#speakers/bob-doak] works for WL Gore & Associates
Every corporate meeting ever Paid Members Public
Weird Al, again, from his new album, Mandatory Fun [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&field-keywords=mandatory%20fun&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=manda%2Caps%2C182&tag=omhb-21&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music]
Nightmares of tech past Paid Members Public
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 grey, bullet-pointed entropy. Then I was given a “smart”
Stop working so damn hard Paid Members Public
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki]. 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,
Where corporate innovation dies Paid Members Public
Why big companies can’t innovate [http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/]: > 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 one smart
The cold war with IT Paid Members Public
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 own laptop & 3G dongle in. Note: Never tell
