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

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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.

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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