technology
Microsoft does sci-fi offices really well
Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.
corporate culture
Corporate trust is the first victim of redundancy
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
business
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 [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
corporate culture
Every corporate meeting ever
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]
corporate culture
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 grey, bullet-pointed entropy. Then I was given a “smart”
corporate culture
Stop working so damn hard
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,
corporate life
Where corporate innovation dies
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
corporate culture
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 own laptop & 3G dongle in. Note: Never tell
corporate culture
Boss free? Or co-owned?
Oddly, since my “liberation” from corporate life, I’ve become fascinated by alternative working models. This is just [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577474953586383604.html] fascinating [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577474953586383604.html] : > Valve, whose website says the company has been “boss free” since its founding in 1996, also
corporate life
Corporate voice is inherently impersonal
James O’Brien [http://contently.com/blog/2012/08/24/mckayla-maroney-scowl-meme-the-unpredictable-life-of-viral-content/] , quotingAlex Goldfayn [http://www.evangelistmktg.com]: > “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
corporate culture
The work/life infusion
Dan Catt on his reasons for leaving The Guardian [http://revdancatt.com/2012/07/26/leaving-the-guardian-creativity-vs-mild-depression-the-quantified-self-and-running/] : > It was the crushing lack of scope for creativity within the projects that was the problem. They fell very much into the category of ‘move this over here, put that there, add something
change management
Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day two
Links to my liveblogs of day two of Like Minds Exeter 2012 ## Morning- [John Rosling: is the chief executive the chief entrepreneur](http://wearelikeminds.com/index.php/john-rosling-chief-executive-or-chief-entrepreneur-the-future-of-business-leadership/) – an inspiring talk on being an inspring leader (and how to lead rather than manage) - [Rajeeb Dey: the path to entrepreneurship]