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Rituals can provide a structure for people to switch to a creative mindset and push the boundaries of the ordinary. Discover the Idea Party, Fixathon, and other rituals from leading companies.
Culture is designable, like a product. As a culture designer, you can prototype with cultural materials and shape culture like an industrial designer prototyping with physical materials.
Rituals are one approach to developing cultural practices to increase people's sense of satisfaction, meaning, and performance at work. Research on emerging virtual rituals in the hybrid era.
Reflections on teaching 'Designing Organizational Culture' at Stanford d.school. Over 100 students applied for 30 spots—organizational culture is top of students' minds.
Four behavior change strategies from ritual and habit research to help people stick to their goals. Rituals externalize things and make disruption concrete and graspable.
Research from Stanford and Oxford design researchers on the power of rituals to address organizational culture crises. Work with SAP Labs, Microsoft, and other partners.
A multi-part series introducing a ritual design framework for practitioners working in different product and service genres.
Learnings from the Compassion and Ethics Summit with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Leading a ritual design session with summit participants.
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Discussing what happens to work rituals when we no longer go into work, and why rituals are essential in remote work.
Margaret Hagan and Kursat Ozenc discuss Rituals for Work with Peter Bregman.
Co-creators of the Ritual Design Lab at Stanford's d.school discuss their work on rituals.
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