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"Microsoft owning a shell called Bungie with all the talent gone isn't a recipe for success (looked what happened when the Palm leadership asked to be spun off from 3Com and the events that followed)."
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"I thought I’d share my advice here, even though I’m still learning to apply these lessons in my own nascent career as a manager."
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Create Candor in the Workplace, Says Jack Welch
"At GE, he put these principles into action by implementing a forced ranking system that divided employees into three distinct segments: the top 20 percent of performers, the middle 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent."
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Employees: The Overlooked Link in the Brand Chain
"The majority of Americans are more dissatisfied with their jobs than ever, although the research doesn't break down the findings by sector, you can assume that employees at the service front line have a high degree of dissatisfaction."
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2006 Agency Of The Year: Nobody
"What should an agency of the year look like? In my eyes–in this era of the rising “you�–an agency must embody ten critical attributes and capabilities"
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"Whether you have your eye on a plum promotion, a plump pay rise or just a happier workplace, begin your quest here with our tips on making more of your nine-to-five this year. To kick off, Seth Godin says being average in 2007 just won't do ."
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Some thoughts on innovation from Grant McCracken.
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Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
"Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates."
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Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly
"Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned"
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All about Google's new New York City office.
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Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
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No schedules. No mandatory meetings. Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace
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Getting High Performance out of High Potential People
"Manage for Passion. This is the key takeaway."
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"Markets today are so bigâ€â€the global video-game market is now close to thirty billion dollarsâ€â€that companies can profit even when they’re not on top, as long as they aren’t desperately trying to get there."
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Questioning "VPs of innovation"
"If ever a VP of something is created, say a VP of quality or a VP of sarcasm, it means one thing: 1. The company is failing at that activity. 2. The company will continue to fail at that activity until that VP is no longer needed."
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Attracting Talent in Spikes and Firms
"The winners in the global economy will be the firms that can find ways to break this vicious cycle and harness network effects for talent development both within and across firms."
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Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging
From Organic and their blog Three Minds
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Oh the emails you'll get . . .
On management consulting: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. "
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two approaches to change management and brand architecture
"The specialty store could go deep. It could cultivate the brand carefully and well. But in a hyperactive marketplace, where consumer taste change often and shifts suddenly, the real challenge is remains current."
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How to Run a Meeting Like Google
"No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer's meetingsâ€â€even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda"
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
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"One trend I’ve found is the high number of innovation efforts within established companies, and how rarely they have any effect."
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Knocking the exuberance out of employees
"If you knock out exuberance, you knock out curiosity, and curiosity is the single most important attribute in a world that requires continuous learning and unlearning just to keep up."
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"Advertising, and marketing in general, is about capturing the imagination, finding those little nuggets in people lives that relate to the brands we represent."
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5 ways to learn to be more innovative
"1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step"
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"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
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7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
Russell Davies reflects on the advertising industry.
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Have strong opinions, but hold them weakly "because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see� and “hear� evidence that clashes with your opinions."
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Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them
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How to live happily with a great designer
13 rules including this one: "You don't know a lot about accounting so you don't backseat drive your accountant. You hired a great designer, please don't backseat drive here, either."
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An incredibly honest self-evaluation from Wieden+Kennedy London.
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"The message reflects one of W+K founder Dan Wieden's sayings, "You're only good to me after you've made three tremendous mistakes." (See also our 'Embrace failure' sign.) Hence, the 12's advice to everyone at W+K : Fail Harder."
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"The greatest efficiencies come from identifying the areas that people, yes living breathing people, find extremely boring. Then seek ways to make those tasks as painless as possible."
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How to avoid lame morale events
Including eight tips for creating great morale events.
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Digital Digressions: The Secret of Happy Employees
"What makes a great workplace and happy employees? It's not countless training courses or 'away-days' or even a selection of free cakes and an office dog. It is three very simple things."
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10 principles Nike lives by.
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What Makes a Good Creative Director?
"Finding the right mesh of talent and interpersonal skills is a very difficult task, which is why good creative directors have been revered  there are so few people who can be creative and manage creative."
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Leaders are Those Who Recognize It
"Are leaders born, or can you make the decision to become one? Whether your view is from the bottom up, the middle or the top – It's clear that your decisions make the difference."
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"There’s a potential energy circling around all of us, of the things we need to hear that will change our minds, but never get the chance. I wrote a short list of ways to try and get more of that energy."
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Hiring the Right Design Manager
"A short list of must-haves that I would recommend looking for when hiring someone to manage a group of designers, specifically in an in-house design group."
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"Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics . . . The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn to be a leader. You can start with these 8 beginner’s errors that can sabotage your efforts as a leader."
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"Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards."
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"What's an engineer's worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed---and hurricane season is approaching."
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"Being an executive is a tough job, no doubt. However there are a set of things any rational person has to believe about executives, that don’t match their behavior."
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From the outside, a CEO’s job looks difficult. From the inside, it’s merely impossible  unless you take charge of the company’s agenda.
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It's Simple. Design Communicates.
"If you want design to have a strategic role in your organization- find an opportunity where design can be used for real communication and not mere styling."
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Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow
"Growth also creates challenges for the entrepreneur. Here are some of the more common issues that entrepreneurs wrestle with as their business grows."
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"While many within the design world pursue linear processes, and embrace well-meaning philosophies such as the user-centric model, real integration – real vision – demands something both more profound and more difficult to achieve."
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"Engineering is the construction of function: enabling products to work. Marketing is the understanding of context: who is this for and what are we telling them. Design is communication: the interfaces . . . and ads that speak to potential customers."
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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"So add one more skill to our career advice for young people: be willing to take risks! Perhaps more importantly, be willing to tolerate (and perhaps even encourage) risk-taking in those who are managed by you."
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A Harvard Business Review article about how software companies SAS implements management strategies to keep the best and brightest happy.
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10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
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'Great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack."
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"Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google."
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The four toughest talks in business
"All tough conversations put you on the defensive. Your job is to switch to offense and work toward a solution that satisfies both sides. To do this, you must understand four truths of tough talks"
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Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
"Here's my little unofficial guide to creating passionate users for those working in Big Companies."
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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How to handle an emotional conversation
"If people worked like web browsers (thank god they don’t!) you could just check the “history� button or look at the log files and figure it out. Since people are biological beings (thank god they are!), you need to take a more biological approach."
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"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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Things My Boss Said to Me Without Elaborating.
McSweeney's: "Quick. Tell me everything of consequence that has happened."
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Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients
"There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I've had my share of them and I thought I'd give my ways I handle them."
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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The Art of Creating Passionate Consumers: Howard Schultz
The legendary leader of Starbucks sets down his recipe for building and leveraging a rich relationship with consumers
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New Yorker: "The term “crisis management� may seem like little more than a euphemism for “snow job,� but there is an art to it. Spin alone won’t do the trick."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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Management's role in passionate users
Companies need to create policies that are inherently trusting of employees, not the other way around.
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