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At some companies, you get to allocate 10% of your time to self-directed projects. At Valve, that time is 100%. Perhaps you’re familiar with this new employee handbook (pdf alert) that’s been making the rounds on the web. Needless to say, Valve has a pretty interesting organization chart: Well, in … Read More
Know who’s sick of puff pieces about motivation and being happy at work? Joe Ippolito, Yahoo strategist, who writes in Fast Company. “These sorts of rah-rah guides to self-actualization seem to be a bit of a trend in entrepreneurship articles of late. I’m not sure when it started exactly, but … Read More
Feel like dying every time you step into the office? A chart about the deadliest jobs in America, from NPR’s Planet Money is making the rounds to remind you that things could be much worse. Probably. Fishermen have the toughest lot in life, with 121.2 deaths per 100,000 workers in 2011. Also on … Read More
A superachiver is someone who doesn’t just succeed; they succeed overwhelmingly. Think of Christopher Nolan moving from indie-hit Memento to blockbuster Batman Begins in a scant five years, or David Chang taking New York by storm with his highly-lauded Momofuku restaurants, or Jessica Watson circumnavigating the world unassisted at age … Read More
You’d think that everyone would get the message, that Kickstarter connects inventors to investors and is not an online store, but no. Some people, like lawyer Neil Singh, quoted in Inc’s story, get upset when products fail to materialize and take action. This speaks to the core of Kickstarter’s problem: … Read More
