Culture (5)
- Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable – GigaOM
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If you’re out to create something truly great, you’ll likely need to challenge some widely held — but incorrect — beliefs. Challenging conventional wisdom is much harder than most people realize, and those that do make us uncomfortable.
Tags: culture, entrepreneurship, management, psychology, startups, article - view - pmarreddy - 01/08/2010 - 20:57 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1
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Most user communities take a typical path--the newbies ask questions, and a select group of more advanced users answer them. But that's a slow path to building the community, and it leaves a huge gaping hole in the middle where most users drop out. If we want to keep beginning and intermediate users more engaged (and increase the pool of question answerers)
Tags: collaboration, community, culture, social, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:58 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
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It's one thing to talk about--and execute--a user-focused approach when you're a small company or an independent contractor. But what if you are, in fact, a fish in a sea as vast as, say, Microsoft? Can you hope to make a difference? Or does working at the "DarkStar" suck the soul from any employee with a passionate users bent?
Tags: business, culture, design, usability, work, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:43 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: "Dignity is deadly." - Paul Graham
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What goes away when a company moves past the start-up phase? Living only on take-out and caffeine. Working in a [small] living room. Crazy, stupid, unprofessional behavior. Wearing nothing but shorts and ripped t-shirts.
Tags: business, culture, inspiration, management, startup, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:42 - - -
- 3 Factors influencing culture - An introduction to business cultures - OpenLearn - The Open University
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Where the culture of a business comes from, and how it develops, is the subject of much discussion within business studies. Every commentator seems to have their own list of key factors. One example is by Drennan (1992), who proposes twelve key factors that shape the culture of a business. These are:
Tags: culture, startup, article - view - bharath - 11/14/2009 - 11:42 - - -
