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Category Archives: Culture
A review of the new Jim Collins book “Great By Choice”
I admit it. I’m a total Jim Collins fanboy. Ever since my friend Paul Salazar first introduced me to the book Built to Last back in 2002, I’ve been a willing member of the cult of Jim Collins. During my … Continue reading
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Tagged 10x, 20 Mile March, Alaska, allegory, Amgen, BHAG, Biomet, Brand, brand positioning, Built to Last, chaos, Everest, Firing Bullets Then Cannonballs, Good to Great, Great by Choice, great companies, How the Mighty Fall, Intel, Jim Collins, Leading Above the Death Line, Level 5 Leadership, management consulting, MBA, Microsoft, mission, Morten Hansen, open source, Paul Salazar, Progressive Insurance, Red Hat, Return on Luck, rock climbing, South Pole, Southwest Airlines, Stryker, The Hedgehog Concept, Tyranny of the OR, uncertainty, values
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Betrayed by the brand: How Moleskine made enemies of the people who loved it most
These days, passionate brand advocates are hard won and easily lost. One of my favorite brands is learning this lesson right now. For writers, designers, or anyone in a creative field, notebooks are your place to record inspiration and craft … Continue reading
Google PR team: I salute you for defaulting to open
It’s been a week now since Steve Yegge of Google fired the shot heard ’round the tech industry. In case you missed it, Steve wrote a thoughtful, yet highly charged rant intended to begin an internal conversation about Google’s failures … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, authenticity, default to open, Google, Google PR, Jeff Bezos, Jerry McGuire, Laszlo Bock, openness, passion, platforms, PR, public relations, Steve Yegge, Think Quarterly
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Dear CEO—Read this…
I was reminded of an old favorite this morning—a New Yorker cartoon from the early 70s. In it, a Bella Abzug feminist type startles a prototypical busy Wall Street CEO type as he makes his way down the Manhattan sidewalk. … Continue reading
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Tagged ceo, David Burney, Gilmartin, Harvard Business Review, New Kind, New Yorker cartoon, Wall Street
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How is your organization faring in the war of control vs. freedom?
In October 1969, when experts at the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) connected the first two nodes of what has now become the Internet, they probably weren’t considering the ramifications of their actions on future organizational … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, control, Culture, DARPA, drones, freedom, Internet, management, mercenaries, volunteer
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Mozilla: A study in organizational openness
My theme this week is organizational openness and transparency and today I’d like to highlight a fantastic example of an organization that has built a culture with openness at its core: Mozilla.
Posted in Community, Culture
Tagged buzzword, esse quam videri, Firefox, Gary Kovacs, Mozilla, open, open meetings, open source, openness, Paul Rouget, transparency
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How open and transparent can a public company really be?
On opensource.com, we often talk about the benefits of an open, collaborative approach, and I see new stories every day that help showcase the benefits of an open organizational model.
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Tagged Ben Horowitz, default to open, IPO, IronPort, open, public company, Red Hat, Scott Weiss, transparent
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In a tough job market, your open source experience may be an asset in more ways than one
Does this describe you? You’ve been using open source software or contributing to open source projects for a long time. Perhaps you are in a job where you utilize open source tools regularly, or maybe you are just fooling around … Continue reading
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Tagged 10000 hours of practice, Alexander the Great, collaboration, communities, Community, Dave Mason, forking, Harvard Business Review, job search, jobs, Jonathan Opp, Locke, M-Prize, Malcolm Gladwell, Management Innovation Exchange, McKinsey, meritocracy, open source, open source skills, open source way, Outliers, Rousseau, skills
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