Some books mentioned on this videocast: * Maverick! by Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco * The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco * Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, Founder of LinkExchange and CEO of Zappos * Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux * Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke, Founder/CEO of AES Summary:
Today's rain-drenched thoughts on the topic of this open letter/lawsuit, which was doing the rounds yesterday, and its relation to open cultures. Note to self: next time have an umbrella, and pay better attention to the framing! On the good side, I now have some lovely shots
For this second instalment, I explain why I believe in open cultures. It turns out that rather than simply being insane, I actually have a rationale for this belief. Three reasons, in fact. Sorry about the volume - it's a bit loud! Will try and put the mic
So I thought I might have a go at recording a kind of videocast on my way to work. Let's call it "On my way to work", for now[footnote]A quick google doesn't show up any popular results under that title, though I&
One of the immediately interesting ideas I picked up from Reinventing Organizations (and since have discovered in other places, like Joy at Work) is the "Advice Process". This is a decision model that works very well to replace both the top-down decision model and the consensus-based decision model,
I guess it had to happen sometime! My first investment, made a month or two ago but kept quiet until now, is SolidLabs, makers of the Primo Playset that had a successful Kickstarter last year. It's an absolutely awesome project to teach programming to pre-literacy kids via an
