Category: Consulting
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Happiness Minutes
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth kind of invented efficiency as an industrial measurement. And then they had a big fight with Frederick fucking Winslow Taylor about it. See, Taylor wanted humans to be part of the machine. The Gilbreths wanted the machine to serve the humans. Taylor thought that standardizing human behavior would make better factories…
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Communications is so big
Communications jobs are siloed in organization charts, but most of them share basic skills, and the specialization lies in the various audiences and tools. Communications is a continuum from UX to support.
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It’s December Eve, are you ready?
You are probably familiar with the retail rhythms of the seasons. You can think of it as what kind of candy you can buy, when chocolate moves smoothly from ghosts to pumpkins to tree decorations to hearts. If you work in any kind of e-commerce, from November to mid-January is a code-freeze all-hands-on-deck experience. Software…
