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The Essence of Work – Part 4 – Caring
This post is part-4 of a series of ten essays on the essence of work. For an introduction, check here. Innovators and Change Agents are probably the most frustrated people in a company’s workforce. That is because they care. That is because they refuse to look at their work “as a job”, and refuse just “to… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 17 August 2015
Week-33 of Delicacies: Max 5 articles that i found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About platforms: https://medium.com/@EskoKilpi/yes-platforms-are-the-most-modern-iteration-of-the-firm-but-the-impact-of-the-internet-does-not-437b717f1acc About the history of the corporation: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/ About the illusions of the digital economy: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html About Short-Termism: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/08/20/is-short-termism-a-myth/ About the efficiency paradox : http://www.digitaltonto.com/2015/the-efficiency-paradox/ If you can’t get enough of these and… Read more
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The Essence of Work – Part-3 – Values and Needs
This post is part-3 of a series of ten essays on the essence of work. For an introduction, check here. Artwork by Alexa Meade – Aligned with Alexa (2010) In Part-1, we learned how my needs inform my beliefs. My beliefs inform my actions. My actions result in effects. And those effects confirm or adjust my… Read more
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The Essence of Work – Part 2 – Fundamental Questions
This post is part-2 of a series of ten essays on the essence of work. For an introduction, check here. This video is the record of a talk by Santiago Ortiz at EYEO Festival in 2014. Santiago is a visualization artist, and that is what triggered my attention first, but listening to the talk, I realized… Read more
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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 10 August 2015
Week-32 of Delicacies: Max 5 articles that i found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About Executive Engagement: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/08/13/executive-engagement/ About lovable work and robots: http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/do-the-robot/ About the nature of the firm: https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/networks-and-the-nature-of-the-firm-28790b6afdcc About the importance of dissent: http://schoolofherring.com/2015/07/29/the-importance-of-dissent/ About leadership in the age of immediacy: http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=896 If you can’t get… Read more
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The Essence of Work – Part 1 – Belief Systems
This post is part-1 of a series of ten essays on the essence of work. For an introduction, check here. How many times does it happen to you that you say/think: “They don’t get it, they really don’t get it!” This happens to me when sharing ideas about my work as an event creator, or… Read more
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Artistic Interventions – Interruptions – Provocations
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