L’entreprise du futur sera "Work & Care" ! Les prochains gisements de croissance et de création de valeur ne sont accessibles qu’avec de l’innovation massive. Or, la coconception, la créativité, la coopération, la co-innovation, la fluidité inter-fonction, la performance… ne sont possibles que si l’entreprise propose un biotope favorisant la libération des énergies et donc prenne soin de ses salariés. Il faut que les entreprises se convertissent au "care", ce concept désignant une réflexion sur la place du souci pour autrui. Le chantier de la prochaine décennie pour les entreprises, c’est donc la santé de ses salariés pour développer la performance individuelle et collective (avec du bonheur inside). En 2013, nous avons égrené les dernières pages du feuilleton d’un capitalisme financier à court terme pas toujours respectueux de son environnement social et sociétal. Si le "Work & care" est une évidence stratégique pour les entreprises à la recherche de solutions de croissance durable, c’est aussi une réponse sociétale.
Khan Academy Read What Facebook’s Sandberg Calls Maybe ‘The Most important Document Ever To Come Out Of The Valley’ Facebook’s No. 2 top dog, COO Sheryl Sandberg, recently said that Netflix’s company culture document “may well be the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.” The document, a bullet-point-happy PowerPoint, has become a cultural manifesto for the Internet’s economic epicenter, amassing over 3.2 million views on Slideshare.net. More than simply a management guide, it’s a window into a philosophy that thrives on uncertainty, creativity, and trust — a blinding contrast to the hierarchical culture that dominated much of the 20th century workplace. To the extent that innovation and the Internet play a role in the modern workplace, it is a crystal ball into the future of daily life. We’ve summarized the most telling principles below: Creativity is Most Important In procedural work, the best are 2x better than the average. The technology industry, especially, is haunted by the ever-present fear of obsolescence. Prioritize Discovery Over Job Security Unlimited Vacation
How Netflix Reinvented HR - HBR Artwork: Freegums, Good Vibrations, 2011, acrylic on wood, 8′ x 15′ Sheryl Sandberg has called it one of the most important documents ever to come out of Silicon Valley. It’s been viewed more than 5 million times on the web. But when Reed Hastings and I (along with some colleagues) wrote a PowerPoint deck explaining how we shaped the culture and motivated performance at Netflix, where Hastings is CEO and I was chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012, we had no idea it would go viral. People find the Netflix approach to talent and culture compelling for a few reasons. The first took place in late 2001. One day I was talking with one of our best engineers, an employee I’ll call John. The second conversation took place in 2002, a few months after our IPO. So I sat down with Laura and explained the situation—and said that in light of her spectacular service, we would give her a spectacular severance package. Hire, Reward, and Tolerate Only Fully Formed Adults Let me offer two examples.
Your Company Is Not a Family - Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh | 12:00 PM June 17, 2014 When CEOs describe their company as being “like family,” we think they mean well. They’re searching for a model that represents the kind of relationships they want to have with their employees—a lifetime relationship with a sense of belonging. But using the term family makes it easy for misunderstandings to arise. In a real family, parents can’t fire their children. Try to imagine disowning your child for poor performance: “We’re sorry Susie, but your mom and I have decided you’re just not a good fit. Unthinkable, right? Consider another metaphor—one that Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, introduced in a famous presentation on his company’s culture. In contrast to a family, a professional sports team has a specific mission (to win games and championships), and its members come together to accomplish that mission. Consider what we can learn from the example of America’s winningest professional sports teams.
IDEO’s Culture of Helping Artwork: Freegums, Celestial Plane, 2010, fully tileable ink drawing, 24″ x 36″ Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. Helpfulness must be actively nurtured in organizations, however, because it does not arise automatically among colleagues. The trickiness of this management challenge—to increase a discretionary behavior that must be inspired, not forced—makes what the design firm IDEO has achieved all the more impressive. The question for the rest of us is, How has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? IDEO may seem like a very different kind of company from yours, but it is probably less so than you think. Leadership Conviction Not every large company’s leader would, if asked about organizational priorities, bring up the topic of encouraging collaborative help in the ranks. Processes and Roles
Lose the WOD Blog | 321Go Project Something tells me having the WOD blog on your homepage is not doing you any favors. Let’s look at an example that probably plays out almost every day: Betty keeps hearing the word “CrossFit” pop up in her community. She’s standing in a check out line and over hears two ladies talking about CrossFit. She picks up her kids from school and hears a teacher talking about it with another mom. This affiliate owner potentially lost a member who may have visited another local affiliate website in her area which was easier to understand, had clear explanations of what she could expect her first visit, and also a call to action to let her know her first intro, session, or one-on-one was free. Here are some steps you can take right now to help your site become more of a call to action, then just an area to post your WOD’s Make sure on your homepage you have a clear call to action for a visitor and your phone number is as big as possible.
Stop producing shit | Marius Andra's blog A friend of mine is starting what can only be described as a combination of Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Foursquare. He’s super excited and hasn’t talked to any potential customers yet. I know a guy whose startup pivots twice a year, each time hoping to solve a problem that’s not really there. Now they’re cloning Yammer. Some other guys had an idea, received validation from two potential clients, raised funding, hired a lot of people, built a product and discovered nobody really wants to pay for it. What’s going on? On the other side you have teams producing amazing products. They are not doing the impossible, yet somehow they’re different. To build a successful business you need a great team, a good idea and a lot of hard work. I’m sure the guys passionately producing crap have as many resources and as good of a team as the other ones. Luckily this can be easily avoided. I’ve written about this before, so I’ll just quickly quote my latest blogging hero, James Altucher: Try it.
Designing A Happier Office On The Super Cheap When Google set up shop in New York City in 2012, the Internet was flooded with pictures of its stunning new $1.9 billion space. The world marveled at lounges with deck chairs and slides, eco-friendly kitchens stocked with healthy food, and rooms designed to look like the inside of a tiny Chelsea apartment—complete with fake bathtubs and stovetops—for employees who like the idea of "working from home" at the office. Most companies don’t have Google’s budget; they can’t simply buy a new building, gut it, and redesign it from scratch. Business leaders who are tight on resources and stuck with an existing space may find it easier to ignore the question of office design altogether. After all, there’s no way to compete with the cutting-edge offices that Google, Facebook, or WeWork are building around the country. But according to Elliot Felix, founder of Brightspot, a strategy firm that helps organizations rethink their space, this is entirely the wrong approach. 1. 2.
So you want to manage a product? What product management is Being the heart, mind, and voice of the userFacilitating cross-functional teamworkMaking product trade-offsMeeting an end-goal with fixed time and resourcesLeading people along a product journeyBeing positive and practicalMaking tough calls with little information What product management is not Being the most important voiceBeing the only idea-generatorBeing a designerBeing a programmerManaging QAOptimizing websitesWriting marketing collateral How I know I applied to be a product manager on a whim. To my surprise, I was offered a position as a product management rotational associate at Intuit, a technologically and culturally amazing company. My first product management role was for QuickBooks. Here are the main four: You’re not managing a product. When I found out I was going to manage QuickBooks, I could have vomited. Oh, how wrong was I. You will always have too many feature requests and too little time. 2. 3. Great. “Designer!?” 4.
Airbnb's Kooky New HQ Is the Envy of Silicon Valley | Wired Design Airbnb recently moved into its new headquarters in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco. The atrium of the renovated warehouse features a three-story green wall. Image: Emily Hagopian The 72,000-square-foot space was designed for idea generation. This is the atrium overlooking the reception area. Image: Carlos Chavarria Glancing across the atrium is like looking at a real-life replica of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Timothy Goodman created a 60-foot installation that covers a wall of the cafeteria. Airbnb recently moved into its new headquarters in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco. There are certain perks to working at a startup with a non-startup bank account. But as tech companies begin moving from the South Bay to San Francisco proper, gimmicky design and excessive offerings have been replaced with a more modest, tasteful even, office design. Right here you’re looking at a conference room modeled after the War Room in Dr. The design-centric thinking is genuine.
10 Tools to Improve Your CrossFit Gym Here is my top ten ways to improve your CrossFit gym. Every gym could use a little improvement, even if you are killing it with 200 members and a 300 pound clean. You are a CrossFitter right? You always want more, bigger, better and faster! I will touch on revenue streams, creative ideas and food that will spice up your affiliate and make it the best in town. 1) CrossFit Journal- it is $25 bucks a year, probably more information then you can consume and will keep you up to date on all the CrossFit happenings. 2) Journal Menu- customizable journals for your CrossFit gym. 2) Gym Swag- Why should Reebok get all the credit? 3) Massage Therapist, Chiropractor, Physical Therapist- This is an amazing partnership to have for you and your community. 4) Recovery Tools- PLEASE READ- I could not be more passionate about this one. Do you program Mobility WOD’s? 5) Rogue Fitness- The prices can be high, but the quality is unbeatable. There is the secret list out for everyone to see.
Mad Libs For Pitches: How To Perfect The One Sentence Pitch You’re the founder of a fledgling startup locked in a room with angel investor Ron Conway for exactly 30 seconds, what do you say? If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you fumble for the words to succinctly describe your startup in a sentence or two. That seems simple enough, what could go wrong in under a minute? According to the Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi: a lot. When it comes to the one sentence pitch, Ressi says “Most entrepreneurs manage to screw it up… How much better would the world be if every startup could explain their business well in one sentence?” To help entrepreneurs perfect the art of the micro pitch, he’s created a rudimentary template in Mad Libs style: My company, __(insert name of company)__, is developing __(a defined offering)__ to help __(a defined audience)__ __(solve a problem)__ with __(secret sauce)__. According to Ressi, “most entrepreneurs add useless adjectives, define their audience too vaguely and have a weak value proposition with no secret sauce.”
This Is What Your Grocery Store Will Look Like In 2065 Grocery stores aren't really known for innovation; 50 years ago, a supermarket down the street might have looked basically the same as it looks today. But 50 years in the future—as the food system reacts to a changing climate, water shortages, and shifting technology— you might find things at your corner store radically changed. In The Future Market, a pop-up grocery store that will be built in New York City next summer, a group of designers will work with the food industry to demonstrate what the bodega of 2065 might look like. You might, for example, walk into the store with a digital food ID that tells the store your allergies, food preferences, and dietary needs, and then you might shop on a touch-screen shelf that automatically delivers your order—possibly picking fresh vegetables from an in-store hydroponic farm on the way. The pop-up store will also include details about each fictional product inside.