John Cox

Blogs · @wyome

Tagged culture · everything

jabaldaia

Valuing cultures and absorbing knowledge « jabaldaia

Organizations must develop absorptive capacity—the ability to assimilate and apply innovative knowledge from external sources—to remain competitive as information flows increasingly across borders. Success requires employees to cultivate cross-cultural skills including valuing diverse perspectives, building authentic relationships, careful observation, comfort with ambiguity, language mastery, crisis management, and conflict resolution. Beyond individual capabilities, organizations must support knowledge absorption through explicit values, training programs, structured initiatives, and communication networks that enable the translation and integration of external ideas into internal practice.

Permalink cultureleadershipbusinessknowledge

Opensource.com

Does your organization need a "no policy" policy? | opensource.com

Daniel Pink's Telegraph piece examines Netflix's unlimited vacation policy, where salaried employees can take time off whenever they want without tracking days, arguing that removing such policies actually increases accountability rather than creating chaos. The article contends that excessive corporate rules stifle innovation and that freedom and responsibility work together effectively, a principle the author witnessed firsthand during ten years at Red Hat, where greater employee freedom consistently correlated with stronger personal accountability. The author's company, New Kind, has adopted a similar no-vacation-policy approach and is considering extending this philosophy to other areas of operations.

Permalink cultureleadershipstrategybusiness

Flickr

Flickr: The Commons

The Flickr Commons is a collaborative platform launched in 2008 by Flickr and the Library of Congress that allows over 100 cultural institutions to publicly share photographs from their archives. The program aims to increase public access to photography collections, enable crowdsourced metadata improvements, and facilitate knowledge contribution from users while ensuring the long-term preservation of these digitized materials. Cultural institutions with photography collections can register to participate and contribute their holdings to the growing commons.

Permalink designculturehistoryphotography

TASTE

TasteBook

Independent scoop shop owners are elevating ice cream beyond a simple dessert by incorporating regional and international ingredients—from local dairy to exotic spices and cultural staples—to create flavors that reflect and celebrate their communities' heritage and identity. These artisanal producers use ice cream as a medium to tell stories about place, tradition, and culinary pride rather than just churning out standardized products.

Permalink foodcookingdesignculture

This American Life

This American Life

I don't have enough information to write the summary you're requesting. The text you've provided appears to be navigation and layout elements from a podcast website rather than the actual article or episode content about Adam Maida. To summarize what the piece argues or reports, I would need access to the full episode description, transcript, or article text itself. Could you share the actual content of the story?

Permalink culturehistoryjournalism

Search - Microsoft Bing

www.fastcompany.com

The Five Most Common Lies in Business

Paul LaFontaine, who left a major music company to consult on business honesty, identifies five pervasive lies in corporate culture: claiming people are a company's most important asset (when financial assets actually are), presenting decisions as rational when they're really personal preferences, judging performance objectively when favoritism determines outcomes, separating business from personal stakes (when everything in business is personal), and prioritizing customers over self-interest (when people actually prioritize themselves). He argues that these lies persist because executives avoid honest conversations about what's really motivating their decisions, and that genuine candor—even anger—handled directly would be more truthful than the euphemisms that typically cloak business dealings.

Permalink culturecommunicationleadershipadvice

eugeneciurana.com

Sushi Eating HOWTO

This guide teaches Western sushi novices proper etiquette and ordering conventions for enjoying authentic sushi at a Japanese sushi bar (sushiya). It emphasizes that sushi is fundamentally fast food meant to be eaten at the bar in conversation with the chef and other patrons, ordering one or two pieces at a time and eating methodically to appreciate subtle flavors and textures. The author also covers how to identify quality establishments (small bars with fresh fish displays and Japanese clientele), what types of sushi to order and in what sequence, proper techniques for eating and using condiments, and the medicinal properties of wasabi and similar ingredients.

Permalink foodcultureinternetdining