When startups are small, thinking through roles and work processes is less important. In early days, there’s typically not even enough employees to do all the work, so founders and their early ...

What do you want out of life? Instead of ignoring daunting questions like this, designer Bill Burnett says we should use ...

How do you make sure you discover the next Tony Fadell, who is already on your team? With a permissionless organization. The advent of machine learning and AI is allowing more companies to have the ...

As an architect, I often find myself at odds with a profession that, on one hand, believes architecture’s role is too large to be concerned with the plight of communities most in need, and yet too ...

When leaders work on systems rather than structure, progress can be harder to recognize—especially compared to an org chart ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

The 1996 horror movie Scream has long been famous for its twist: As the protagonist prepares diligently to defend against threats from the outside, it turns out the killer is already inside the house.

We're nearly ready to roll out the long-awaited site redesign. The finishing touch is a new site logo graphic. Submitted by libcom on March 27, 2012 We have some ideas, but we know some of our ...