One of my favourite stories from Silicon Valley is how Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their colleagues at PayPal managed to…
There’s a fascinating concept in sociology and institutional economics I’ve been reading about for the last few days. It’s an attempt to explain why, in the face of competitive pressure, firms typically tend to look the same as each other. It’s called institutional isomorphism.
Before it all disappears I thought I’d write some notes to next year’s students.
I’m three weeks out of the taught part of an MA at Hyper Island and the world seems very real, into which you can read whatever you like — Hyper is a bubble, but a pleasant and democratic…
This is a transcript of a podcast recorded on leadership. We were asked to reflect on our understanding of the term and what advice we could give to make people better leaders in wherever they are.