Lots of thinking going on over the last 48 hours. Johnnie and James' Open Sauce Live was well worth attending, not only to listen to the guys themselves (and the walk up the stairs - all four flights) but also to listen to the other attendees. A genuine connection in any situation happens so rarely that it is worth remembering. Open Source in a marketing context feels very much that it is about nurturing connection with customers, stakeholders and using that to add value, to benefit the people involved should be the goal all the time. And I really don't mean purely numbers or money.
On this note and Johnnie's recent postings on experience I met an old friend, a guy who used to work for me at ntl today. He is a wonderful guy who really knows his stuff (web development) and is incredibly genuine. We started talking about ntl and the old times. It made me realise just how much the organisation had changed and how much it had impacted me. When we worked together there was a desire to 'do good things' not a fixation with numbers and it made the place wodnerful to work and led to sme extraordinary things being achieved. I rarely saw this in my last couple of years at ntl when most people really looked like they were having their souls bleed away. Strong words? Absolutely and it isn't a criticism of ntl per se, just of the way the business world has developed and the impact of an adverse situation on me.
I'll post something more positive on Monday.
Posted by Paul Goodison at March 19, 2005 09:45 PM | TrackBack