Scaling culture with feedback
From Scaling culture with feedback on the Wistia blog.
In a company that’s moving quickly, it’s easy to accept certain routines or travel far down paths that end up being detrimental to your overall growth.
Why Don’t We Know How Many People Are Shot Each Year in America?
How many Americans have been shot over the past 10 years? No one really knows. We don’t even know if the number of people shot annually has gone up or down over that time.
Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations
A talk, followed by Q&A, by Frederic Laloux about “Reinventing Organizations”, a research and book that is turning into an international phenomenon.
Increasingly, employees and managers (but also doctors, nurses, teachers, etc.) are disillusioned with the way we run organizations today.
The Deer of Staten Island
When you’re dealing with people who live in the New York metropolitan area, they have no day-to-day exposure to nature, to living with nature. The idea of killing animals like deer has a very visceral impact,” DeNicola said. “Given the degree of urbanization, your ability to educate, to sway public perception becomes very hard — to get people to understand the need to cull? Good luck. Ideally, you’d pursue an integrated solution” — a mix of lethal and non-lethal methods. “Practically? Not. Gonna. Happen.
Nice longform from The Verge.
Justine Sacco Is Good at Her Job, and How I Came To Peace With Her
Sam Biddle, with his own version of Yom Kippur:
Twitter disasters are the quickest source of outrage, and outrage is traffic. I didn’t think about whether or not I might be ruining Sacco’s life. The tweet was a bad tweet, and seeing it would make people feel good and angry—a simple social and emotional transaction that had happened before and would happen again and again.
I’ve been asked many times if I would post Sacco’s tweet all over again, and I still don’t know how to answer. Would I post the tweet again? Sure. Would I post the tweet knowing it’s going to cause an incredibly disproportionate personal disaster for Justine Sacco? No. Would I post the tweet knowing it could happen? Now we’re in dicey territory, and I’m thinking of ghosts: If you had a face-to-face sit-down with all of the people you’ve posted about, how many of THOSE would you do again? We’re wading through swamps and thorns, here.
The End of Willets Point
“We’re all family here. When it snows we have snowball fights, when business is slow we play soccer in the streets,” Mr. Harris said.
On one of a handful of trips to Citi Field this summer, my good friend Ed mentioned this article about Willets Point. Really interesting look inside the neighborhood.