Category: culture
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: A wonderful interview with the founder of the wonderful PostSecret (above) 'We started with a simple question, “How has leadership practice changed in the last five years?”'. A useful new report from Wolff Olins based on interviews with 43 global CEOs, 10 Leadership experts and a counterpoint employee survey. Key finding is…
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You Are Not a Storyteller
Lots to like about this short film featuring Stefan Sagmeister debunking what's wrong with the whole 'storytelling' thing. I may have been guilty of a bit of this in the past myself but he's right – there's 'storytelling', and then there's storytelling. HT Kirsty Angus for the link
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Working at Dropbox
This morning's Fraggl email had a link to this video from Dropbox describing what it's like to work there. I talk a fair bit about 'digitally-native' culture in organisations and this is a lovely way of expressing it.
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OKRs
Thanks to the always good Wunderkammer newsletter for pointing me at this piece on OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) the simple but very sensible organisational system that originated in Intel but has been a long-term staple at Google. The system, involving setting quarterly measurable, definitive objectives at a company, team and/or individual level, and then supporting that…
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Spotify Engineering Culture
Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1 from Spotify Training & Development on Vimeo. I'm giving a talk at Learnfest today which has already proved to be a refreshingly different and fascinating conference (more on that later). Tamas Mihalovits, the Global Training Manager at Spotify (who ran one of the sessions here) told me about this…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: "Each year, Mary Meeker unveils her fascinating Internet Trends presentation. And each year, her insights are inestimable and eagerly awaited. But each year, I have a problem with her slides. As a presentation designer, I find them rough and busy. To the point it makes them hard…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Adam Magyar, Array #1 from Adam Magyar on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: More Adam Magyar brilliance (above). A "high speed video recording at Seoul at Sindorim Station of people descending on stairs while changing from Line 1 to Line 2". Makes sense - NBC Universal found that (FT £) a TV show’s ratings…
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Persistence
In between meetings yesterday I went to look at the David Bailey exhibition, curated by the man himself at the National Portrait Gallery (which was wonderful) and in one of the displays typed onto a piece of card was this quote: "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing…
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Hacking the Concept of Time
I really enjoyed this profile of Adam Magyar, the ‘renegade’ self-taught photographer who combines sophisticated photographic equipment, other retro-fitted hardware, self-written software, and an artist’s eye to unique effect. In ‘Stainless’, speeding subway cars and their passengers (often seemingly lost in their own worlds) are captured in exceptionally high resolution. Part of the project involved…
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Marina and Ulay
The Kickstarter 'Projects We Love' email told me about performance artist Marina Abramovic's endeavour to fund 'a living, breathing museum for performance art, where attendees not only visit, but participate.' Marina is famous of-course for (amongst many other things) her performace piece The Artist Is Present which in 2010 broke MoMA attendance records and which saw…