AntiGrind - flippin’ the bird to traditional styles of management

Well, we have some good news.

Our little Blog has in the matter of a week gone from 8,911,336 place to 3,939,045 in a field that is expanding at a rate of 120,000 blogs per day (according to the technorati’s qtr weblog review). We are wrapped with this and we want to keep on sharing the good news with you as we go. As a little present, in addition to the little gems of management wisdom, here is an interesting little graph below shows the state of the Blogosphere in the last few years and more importantly indicating its maturing as an influential part of the web.

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Many organisations have “Innovation” as one of its key corporate values, yet how often is this reflected in the company culture and in the minds of individual employees in a constrained system.

Recent discussion in Australia on innovation shows that Australian business rank quite poorly in the innovation stakes. Given this, it is possible to theorise that the current economic conditions and existing corporate cultures and systems could be contributing to this issue.

If you take a look at the Gen Xer’s and Gen Y’s (those born between 1961-1981 and 1982-1995 respectively), there is a tendency more notably among the Gen y fraternity to move through various organisations over a short period of time. So what’s driving this move and how is innovation affected?

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Ever had one of those moments when you’re sitting there running a project or directing a task and you stop and think to yourself; am I as much as a pain in the arse as my Fat Little Bald Boss (FLBB) is to me?

I guess to be able to figure this out, we have to understand what common traits this annoying little beast that runs you life has. For me the typical FLBB that I have come across in the past typically states these beautiful lines:

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“Kachuptz” is the inter company political exploitation of youngsters growing up through the firm. There is no doubt that it has happened to all of us as we progress.

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After much searching, here is a list of website that cover off the fundamentals of any great MBA. More importantly, it is a shortcut to the best stuff.The criterion for these sites was; proven practicality, (ie processes that you can implement today) depth of research and regularly updated.

Finance & Investments

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

We are talking old School here. Download these annual reports and have a laugh whilst you’re at it. You can definitely learn more from these guys Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger than any lecturer you’ve ever had. This link should go in every subject. Read the rest

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This little gem has been around for a bit, but we have had a lot of fun with it a work.

Here’s how it works.

Next time you in a meeting and your forced to laugh at another one of your managers inane motivational jokes or sayings, why don’t you flip it around and play bingo with you colleagues instead.

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This is definitely one for the marketing execs to take note of as I thought the age of Big hit ads were getting close to being dead and gone - then Gillette comes along with this Multi million dollar advertisement suite of superstars. Have P&G lost the plot or are they on to something that we don’t know? It currently has 35,000 hits on Youtube, with the supplementary ads hovering around 40,000 views as of July this year.

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I need a laugh; here’s my top 10 so far, must thank Marco for the inspiration and make sure to check out his top 40.

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Perhaps yours is in there aswell!

My boss recently pitched my work to win a major account that added another $10M to our balance sheets. Whats worst, is that the intellectual property (IP) that i developed during the lead up has been filed under his name. What a prick hey, but talking to my IP lawyer stealing kudos is pretty typical - “one of the perks of being the boss!”

Ok, so i come up with good idea - boss does me over and lawyer sees it as water under the bridge. I understand the terms of my employment where all your IP is farmed off to the employer - but it really suxs to have someone take the kudos on you sweat.

So i wanted to know if you have had this happen to you, your colleagues and friends.

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