It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank balance. Long-term success is dependent on a culture that is nurtured and alive. Culture is the environment in which your strategy and your brand thrives or dies a slow death.
I’m not saying Google falls as a result of this mistake — that would be foolish, they’re too big to fail anytime soon — but I do think that over an extended period of time, whether users consciously realize it or not, they’ll start looking elsewhere for their information needs because Google has strayed from their foundation.
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I had never seen this internal Microsoft video mockingly imagining how the company might redesign Apple’s iPod packaging, but it’s a brilliant parody of the worst excesses in packaging design. (via MacRumors)
Sometimes you have to laugh through the pain.
Source: youtube.com
The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers. This is what outsiders, by definition, do.
We believe that specialization can limit one’s view and perceptions. The most innovative ideas are not created in a vacuum; ideas in one area may grow from a completely unrelated field, subject, or industry.
Noot Group “We’re Special, But We Don’t Specialize”
Just beautiful. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Source: nootgroup.com
Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature.
Source: vimeo.com
I love how Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Google all do something fairly radical to draw attention to SOPA/PIPA, but remain consistent with their branding.
Craigslist is just a raw as ever and only slightly more colorful.
Via newshour:
Wikipedia, Craigslist and Google protest SOPA/PIPA.
(more about the debate here)
Source: newshour
After Prescient Pivot, Aviary Tools Now Seeing 10 Million Photos A Month | Fast Company
It’s great to see a company learn and adapt, especially when that means making a dramatic change.
Two other companies that could have been listed in this article: Alloy and Virb
Source: Fast Company
