corporate life

Microsoft does sci-fi offices really well Members Public

Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
technology

Corporate trust is the first victim of redundancy 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate culture

Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business

Every corporate meeting ever 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]

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate culture

Nightmares of tech past 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”

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate culture

Stop working so damn hard 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,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate culture

Where corporate innovation dies 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate life

The cold war with IT 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
corporate culture