How Airbnb is building its culture through belonging

When you walk into the Airbnb office in SOMA, San Francisco, you could be entering a trendy inner-city apartment building almost any place in the world, which deliberately aligns with the company’s mission: to create a world where you can belong anywhere. How Airbnb is building its culture through belonging

 

 
 

One Moment Please

Anxiety levels are climbing, distractions are growing, and attention is being stolen from the things that matter most. It’s time to revive the dying art of paying attention.

 

 

 

Watch: Matthieu Ricard says altruism is the solution

In a TED Talk published yesterday, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard offers his simple solution to climate change, biodiversity loss and global inequality. The problem, he says, is selfishness, and the solution is altruism. It’s a simple—even naïve—idea, but Ricard makes a compelling case that altruism is a real, effective solution. Watch: Matthieu Ricard says altruism is the solution  

 

Design the new business

Design and business can no longer be thought of as distinct activities with individual goals. Design the New Business is a film dedicated to investigating how designers and businesspeople are working together in new ways to solve the wicked problems facing business today. Design the new business

 

World-class teams

Winning teams are tough to find—and even tougher to build. In this classic McKinsey Quarterly article from 1992, the former captain of New Zealand’s mighty All Blacks rugby team, David Kirk, explains how to develop superlative performers. http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Organization/World-class_teams?cid=mckq50-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1411

 

 

Build a change platform, not a change program

It’s not you, it’s your company. Management Innovation eXchange founders Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini believe that continuous improvement requires the creation of change platforms, rather than change programs ordained and implemented from the top.   Build a change platform, not a change program