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The world's biggest corporate fines, visualised in proportion to each company's annual income. Really puts the Barclays LIBOR-fixing fine into perspective.
View Article'I find it more helpful to think of Father Christmas as a total brand concept.'
A visit to Father Christmas, or When Little Johnny's address was omitted from the Service Specification. Not a pretty sight.
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OrgOrgChart is a graphical representation of four years in the life of Autodesk Inc.: how it shed and gained staff, and how it reorganised itself as it acquired new companies and moved staff from one...
View ArticleHow People Sit in Meetings and What it Really Means
How People Sit in Meetings and What it Really Means. So accurate. Unicorn 1030s Pupil Posture [...] I'm facing you, sitting straight, with no internet, and I'm actually paying attention to you. Nobody...
View ArticleTwo Step's just zis guy, you know?
A telling vignette from Businessweek's article about Eve Online: [A number of prominent Eve Online players...] were in Iceland's capital to meet with executives from CCP Games, the company that created...
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Terms And Conditions May Apply: 6) In Exchange for These Services a. In exchange for visiting this website, you have agreed to publish a post stating that you have visited this website on Facebook....
View Article'… if you had said something like that to Steve Jobs, he would have taken...
Former Palm and Apple executive Michael Mace has written a perceptive exploration of the question of Why Google Does the Things it Does: "What does Google want?" A favorite pastime among people who...
View ArticleWhy The Sharing Economy Isn't
Tom Slee is unimpressed by an attempt to hijack the 'sharing economy' for the benefit of venture capitalists: So a couple of months ago Douglas Atkin, head of Community and E-staff Member at AirBnB,...
View ArticleIf you were waiting for someone to lean in for child care legislation, keep...
Susan Faludi in The Baffler, on Leaning In: The scene at the [Lean In event addressed by Sheryl Sandberg at the] Menlo Park auditorium, and its conflation of "believe in yourself" faith and material...
View Article26. Anything longer than a tweet is 'tl;dr'.
Tom Morris updates a classic: It has now been fourteen years since the Cluetrain Manifesto. I have updated it to reflect contemporary reality and society. Markets are conversations in much the same way...
View ArticleData mining as a security measure?
Los Angeles Times reporter David Lazarus, prompted by a tip-off from a reader, tried registering with a UPS service that offered more control over parcel delivery schedules and found that UPS already...
View ArticleMuch as your mind is screaming, 'Go for it!' it is definitely not okay to...
From McSweeney's: Son, It's Time We Talk About Where Start-Ups Come From. [...] I realize it's awkward, discussing these adult matters with your father, but have your buddies asked you to join a...
View Article'You make it seem as if the capitalists would entirely remove all human labor...
A Preliminary Phenomenology of the Self-Checkout is long, but totally worth it: III. The Ghost in the Machine [...] You have bought a greeting card, you indicate. Why, then, can't I feel its heft in my...
View ArticleExpertise is a two-edged sword
You're The Expert, Can You Or Can You Not Do This? A very productive meeting indeed, I think you'll agree.1 [Via The Tao of Mac] I mean, the expert neither garrotted his bosses nor took his own life...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about strategy speak in one handy table
Wardley's Scale of Corporate Desperation: Wardley's Scale of Corporate Desperation. Everything you need to know about strategy speak in one handy table. pic.twitter.com/RyRAASaHjr — swardley...
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Ben Hammersley: Soon giving a talk to a v.large co, partly on costs of decision making in big orgs. So far 8 people have needed to approve my ppt. Mic drop. — Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) April 14,...
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