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The Man Corporations Love and Xenophobes Hate
Further, I asked about Bangalore’s Zippo-flipping, free-spending generation of young techies who’ve graduated to a huge wave of multinational jobs that pay them far more than their parents ever made, in many cases more than the rest of their families combined. But he blames the Internet and the mass-cross-pollination of Western pop culture, not the bigger paycheck from companies like his.
“We During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy.
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 19, 2010
Four Ways to Keep the Museum Experience Relevant
Attendance surpassed projections and 1,700 new memberships were generated just from people waiting in line for the exhibition. Consumers" were kept busy with a wide range of related cultural events and options extending beyond the exhibition throughout the city. To help shift the internal culture, Ferriso had his team visit London's Victoria & Albert Museum in 2008 to experience the CDN exhibition--the result of five years of research. Ziba Design helped create the massive exhibition, China Design Now which recently closed in Portland, Oregon. Steve McCallion files his
Fast Company
- Friday, March 19, 2010
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Infographics
How prevalent is our cultural obsession with data? This is a baby generating data in a neonatal ward?" The only data it's generated so far is sitting inside that diaper.
Our children are now crawling with it, according to a new commercial by IBM.
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" Data Baby " is
Fast Company
- Thursday, March 18, 2010
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When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
What if you've taken a culture check-up, and your organization is not yet ready to be open and transparent to employees, customers and partners? Do you have to wait years to shift the culture to one that is ready? Maybe there are pockets within the culture that could pilot a small project, focused on a specific business need. Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010
More companies are discovering that an über-connected workplace is not just about implementing a new set of tools — it is also about embracing a cultural shift to create an open environment where employees are encouraged to share, innovate and collaborate virtually.
And these changes will only continue to accelerate as we move toward 2020, as the Millennial Generation will comprise nearly half of the workforce by 2014 .
Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions:
Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Are You Ready to Manage Five Generations of Workers?
This translates into a social phenomenon not yet witnessed: five generations are about to be working side by side. Due to their smaller size, Gen X will never have the majority spot in the workplace — and so in essence, we will have skipped an entire generation by 2015.) When you consider the changes in the amount of knowledge available at our fingertips, the advent of social technologies, and the expansion of the global economy over those two generations, Does retirement look a little further off now than it did just a few years ago? If you are over 62, odds are you're
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, October 16, 2009
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Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
You need to define the best practices for your brand, culture and customers. Tags: Generational issues Human resources Social medi "Do you spend much time on Facebook?"
It was a standard question in our hiring process, but the job candidate visibly stiffened and said, "A bit, I guess. But not every day.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 8, 2009
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What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
Those who closely guard who they are, what they like, where they travel, and what they're doing will seem out of touch and non-participative in an ever more disclosing and collaborative culture.
Tags: Generational issues Social media Work life balanc We were talking to the VP for online strategy at a big Silicon Valley company last week. Among other tasks she helps the company's senior executives create a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
"Some
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now Until recently, it was a conversation mostly confined to the raised-on-the-Net younger generation and a few older outliers. This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg.
You You say you want a revolution?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology
generated a few comments and I posted a follow-up entry the next day
with Tags: culture politic Guest blogger John Graham-Cumming initiated and led the successful petition drive to procure an apology to Alan Turing from the UK government. John is the author of The Geek Atlas , CTO of a stealth-mode start-up, and a longtime programmer who has a doctorate in computer security.
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, September 17, 2009
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Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes
Above all, what will they think of the appalling amount of waste in our culture? We live in a throwaway culture sustained by sweatshop labor, which has replaced a culture of heirloom products that last generations. The other day, I read a novel called Prester John , by John Buchan, published in 1910. This story about a Zulu uprising in South Africa as experienced by a young Scottish immigrant is an entertaining read in the spirit of Rudyard Kipling or H.
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now
William Strauss and Neil Howe, coauthors of Generations , posit that each generation makes a unique bequest to those that follow and generally seeks to correct the excesses of the previous generation. They argue that the Boomer excess is ideology and that the Generation X reaction to that excess involves an emphasis on pragmatism and effectiveness.
As many The book I've written based on those conversations, safely in the hands of the publisher and due out in December, includes many of your voices - including quotes from your responses to posts on this site. Through this
HarvardBusiness.org
- Sunday, July 19, 2009
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A Better Way to Manage Knowledge
Creation spaces have the potential to generate increasing returns — the more participants that join, the faster new knowledge gets created and the more rapidly performance improves. They bring into play network effects in the generation of new knowledge. Tags: Innovation Knowledge management Organizational cultur We give a lot of talks and presentations about the ways and places companies and their employees learn the fastest. We call these learning environments creation spaces — places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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