Episode 17: the future of media + a conversation about Holacracy with Gabe Kleinman
We're back from Spring Break, feeling centered, serene, and mellow. Because what you create reflects what you feel, we hope you get a sense of that state of mind while listening to this podcast. As always, we're super grateful for the time you give us as listeners and as part of the greater IDEO Futures community. Our special guest for Episode 17 of the IDEO Futures podcast is Gabe Kleinman of Medium. Also known in the halls of Medium as "The Wolf", Gabe joins Joe for what we think is a really interesting plunge into the future of media and hacking tools for expression and design thinking. Along the way, Gabe and Joe have an in-depth discussion about holacracy. Wikipedia defines holacracy as follows: Holacracy is a social technology or system or organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested at the top of a hierarchy. Those of you who are organizational design aficionados will know that both Medium and Zappos have been at the vanguard of the holacracy movement. You can see articles about each of their experiences with holacracy here: http://firstround.com/review/How-Medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers/ and here: http://www.fastcompany.com/3044417/zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-adopt-holacracy-or-leave. Gabe brings a unique perspective to what it means to live, work, and lead within a holacratic work environment, so we hope that you enjoy listening to his thoughts, insights, and stories about holacracy at Medium. Of course, it isn't the IDEO Futures podcast without a big helping of VDTBOM, Venture Design That Blows Our Minds! Diego returns to his emerging obsession for the overlap of innovative business models and great food with a VDTBOM inspired by MAD and Korean tacos. This one focuses on Roy Choi and Loco'l, and it's awesome. It reminded us of our Taco Truck DDP episode. Joe investigates an entrepreneur who has reinvented the coloring book, but for adults. Many thanks to the folks at MAD for the clip from Roy Choi's MAD presentation. If you're curious about our design themes for 2015, take a listen to Episode 10. And if you'd like to check out the "Humans + Bits + Blocks" series we mentioned, you can find those articles here on Medium: https://medium.com/humanizing-bitcoin-blockchain Want to keep in touch? Follow us on Twitter, @ideofutures, send us a tweet or shoot us an email at futures@ideo.com. You can sign up for our newsletter at www.ideofutur.es. As always, the IDEO Futures podcast is available on iTunes. Please subscribe here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ideo-futures-king-ship/id938339249?mt=2 Thank you for listening! Kingship! #kingship #dontgetreadygetstarted #peace