Bypass road

As a team, we have a shared dissatisfaction for how most agencies choose to work. Despite selling creativity, many behave in the exact opposite way and the most conservative department is often the creative department. We believe that most “people” businesses are actually “talent” businesses and conventional pyramidal structures squash and stifle this talent. This makes them slower, less innovative and ultimately frustrating places to work. In 2009, we set about turning this pyramid upside down, re-framing the role of management as coaches and cultural guardians. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways To Create An Open Culture

For all of its silliness, Mad actually set legal precedent in the intellectual property arena, making song lyrics, for the most part, fair game for satirists. In 1961, music publishers representing songwriters such as Irving Berlin, Richard Rogers, and Cole Porter filed a $25 million lawsuit against Mad for copyright infringement after Mad published a collection of parody lyrics to some of their songs. Two years later, the U.S. District Court upheld Mad’s right to print 23 of the 25 song parodies under dispute. “That is the lawsuit that pretty much established the right to parody song lyrics,” says Ficarra. … [Read more...] about The Ascent Of “Mad”: See 60 Years Of Comic Subversion

“I call them my Earth Tribe,” she laughs. “They’re mostly in brown, green, earthy tones. They’ve been living in woods, and have become quite a team of warriors. What everyone wears is very practical, utilitarian. They’ve had to toughen up. No one cares who you were before the apocalypse. Now it’s, ‘Can you survive and hold your own?’ Then you’re introduced to the Governor and his group. They’re my Sky Tribe, which wears a little bit of blue. I wanted more of a conservative, uniform feeling, and a metal look–like guns, weapons, and the helicopter, which gave me their nickname.” … [Read more...] about What To Wear To The Apocalypse: Walking Dead Costumer Eulyn Womble On Telling A Story With Wardrobe

Both Cynamon and Hunter said that while there is a structure that encourages and enables creative collaboration, like the weekly production meetings, it doesn’t stop with those formal set-ups. “A lot of collaboration happens naturally,” says Hunter. “I can have a conversation with Trevor who runs Noisey about a current project and start talking about how best to co-promote a new music doc that both channels want to work on. So a lot of it will happen in a very loose, natural way. I think it’s great to have that hybrid, combining proven processes that many organizations use with our own Vice way of casual, conversational interaction.” … [Read more...] about Take A Look Inside The Headquarters Of Vice

Your culture is a key indicator of the health of your organization and a significant contributor to delivering sustainable, superior results. And while the alarm gets raised by the head of HR when there’s an issue, if the CEO is not actively engaged in championing cultural health and transformation, then the problem won’t be fixed or opportunities maximized. … [Read more...] about The Right Rx For Unhealthy Corporate Culture