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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

Authorized as part of the latest coronavirus relief package in December, round two of the PPP is being rolled out incrementally in response to criticism that the loans were not fairly disbursed the first time around. Many smaller businesses in underserved communities—and minority-owned businesses in particular—were left with nothing after the program ran out of money. … [Read more...] about Paycheck Protection Program loan portal opens to larger lenders soon: Here’s the latest

As far as working with such a setup goes, I’d recommend having your laptop on the desk in front of you and keeping correspondence stuff on the laptop screen: email, Slack, chat, and the like. Then use the big screen for productivity stuff: web, apps, presentations, and documents. The horizontal resolution you gain lets you keep multiple windows open and side by side at once, while the vertical resolution is great for displaying long web pages and documents. … [Read more...] about 7 daily productivity hacks to help you work smarter in 2021

ENSURE THAT finding and developing the best ideas stays at the center of everything you do An early break for Sproxton and Lord was making animated shorts for BBC Children’s Television. Their first successful character was a stop-frame animated plasticine character called Morph. The launch of British TV station Channel 4 back in 1982 proved an important catalyst when it began commissioning animation for a grown-up audience, and the pair began experimenting with animating recorded conversations of real people–a groundbreaking technique. Aardman’s subsequent Lip Sync series for Channel 4 included Creature Comforts–the Oscar-winning short made by Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit, who joined Aardman in 1985. … [Read more...] about How To Grow While Staying Insanely Creative, The Aardman Way

Almost a year into Smith’s tenure, it’s clear that the integration has been fairly seamless, and that’s because of the site’s egalitarian attitude toward different kinds of content, both editorial and advertorial. Employees don’t feel “that advertising is a necessary evil, or that the content that drives lots of traffic isn’t important, or that the journalism doesn’t get any traffic, it’s just a halo,” says BuzzFeed cofounder Jonah Peretti. “That’s a cynic’s way of thinking.” Jeff Greenspan, the company’s new chief creative officer, who had previously held posts at Facebook at ad agency BBDO, agrees that everything at BuzzFeed is a team effort. “Not everyone has the maker or creator title,” Greenspan says, “But everyone feels like they’re behind the same purpose.” … [Read more...] about 19 Photos Of BuzzFeed’s Offices And 4 Things That Drive BuzzFeed’s Culture Of Win