Posts in chronological order with tag Culture

Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.

by Chris Grams August 30, 2010

Maybe some day we’ll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh.
Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or wearing multiple Swatch watches, or working out to Richard Simmons videos. Each seemed really helpful at the time, but looking back, we [...]

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Reflections on Matthew Szulik and closing the ‘executive gap’

by David Burney August 27, 2010

Almost exactly two years ago I left Red Hat to start what would become New Kind. I’d been there for four and a half years. It was wonderful and challenging; one of the great adventures of my life.
There are several reasons it was so rewarding:
+ I was working on meaningful work. We were proving that [...]

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Institutional innovation, Mark Twain and John Seely Brown

by David Burney August 19, 2010

If you’re a designer who thinks design deserves a ’seat at the table’ you have to love John Seely Brown— a design hero and sherpa for the 21st century.
His book The Power of Pull, co-written with John Hagel III, works off their recurring theme that “management practices and corporate institutions are fundamentally broken.” The sub-title—how [...]

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