Posts in chronological order with tag innovation

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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Does your organization need a “no policy” policy?

by Chris Grams August 17, 2010

Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix’s innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy.
Meaning, employees don’t have a set number of days they get off each year, but instead can take vacation whenever they want. From the article:
At Netflix, the vacation policy is [...]

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