(Well maybe not every type of company culture. As a customer service consultant, I’ve limited my practice to cultures that aspire to focus on the customer and support employees as multi-dimensional human beings. So if you have more transactional, customer-agnostic cultural goals, the applicability of these seven steps may be limited.) 1. Shorten your mission statement. Are there consultants (or CEOs) out […]

From a price perspective, matching festival culture with playlist culture is almost a no-brainer. As with a Spotify monthly subscription, an individual music festival charges a fixed price for a buffet-style experience, in which concert-goers can jump easily from one act to the next. Embedded within this type of …

But there's much more to the tech titan's successful culture than free meals and on-site amenities like massages and dry cleaning. There are other intangible qualities that keep Googlers happy, productive and dedicated to the company. Thirteen Forbes Technology Council members, some of whom have …

Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that offers emotional support through text messaging, has spent four years connecting people in extreme emotional duress with online counselors. Now its founder is creating a startup called Loris.ai to help companies teach employees how to communicate. “There are a lot of companies right now that are fearful of having hard conversations,” […]

Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs. Since then — well, there have been a few more. Whether it’s booze (writers), heroin (rock stars), or cocaine (anyone with money), we’ve long associated, and romanticized the link between, intoxicants […]

When Emily Chang interviewed venture capitalist Michael Moritz in 2015, she wasn’t trying to “trap” him. But when the Sequoia Capital then-chairman suggested that hiring more women might mean “lowering our standards,” he set off a firestorm — and gave Chang the idea for a book. That book, “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of […]

In downtown Los Angeles, an artist’s withdrawal leaves a museum gala without an honoree. Meanwhile, in Inglewood, a stadium’s construction has one critic asking how else all that space might have been used. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with your 100% locally sourced, artisanally crafted L.A. culture newsletter. Don’t settle […]

The idea of a corporate university isn’t new. Apple’s Steve Jobs famously set up Apple University to teach company lore and indoctrinate employees in the company’s quirky ethos. McDonald’s Hamburger University teaches restaurant management skills and already has over 275,000 graduates. But few, if any, startups have done it as quickly or with as much […]

Political dressing is fashionable right now, but is it fashion? Celebrities and stars turned up dressed in black at the 75th Golden Globes Award ceremony. Instantly the media was in frenzy over what they dubbed “political fashion statements on the red carpet.” This is just the most recent droplet of a rainy season of purportedly […]

On January 29th, 2018 (PXT), Bitigex release conference was grand held in Los Angeles, USA, attracting fans from cultural industry, game, and blockchain community.  The Bitigex core founding team introduced the features of Bitigex to the guests, and shared the advanced concept of Bitigex’s “cultural industry + blockchain”. Bitigex is the first global digital assets exchange platform […]