http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-46778 Lessons learned by Bill Gates « My Blog – hobelinm Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:39:42 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-46778 [...] the world, or go home. There is a little sign on many doors at Microsoft.  It features the blue monster and it reads:  “Change the world, or go home.”  Not only does that phrase capture the spirit [...] […] the world, or go home. There is a little sign on many doors at Microsoft.  It features the blue monster and it reads:  “Change the world, or go home.”  Not only does that phrase capture the spirit […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-46472 Lessons Learned from Bill Gates - Sources of Insight Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:01:26 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-46472 [...] the world, or go home. There is a little sign on many doors at Microsoft.  It features the blue monster and it reads:  “Change the world, or go home.”  Not only does that phrase capture the spirit [...] […] the world, or go home. There is a little sign on many doors at Microsoft.  It features the blue monster and it reads:  “Change the world, or go home.”  Not only does that phrase capture the spirit […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-45177 Social Pro Files: Let corporate social media out of the bottle | Social Midea Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:18:21 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-45177 [...] passion at the heart of a stagnant corporate culture, he says.McLeod’s earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains a timely [...] […] passion at the heart of a stagnant corporate culture, he says.McLeod’s earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains a timely […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-45124 Social Media Marketing HQ | Learn Social Media From the Industry's Brightest Minds » Social Pro Files: Let corporate social media out of the bottle Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:52:06 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-45124 [...] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains [...] […] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-45112 Grenades and accolades:The impact of social media on marketing and culture | Social Meteor Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:35:15 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-45112 [...] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to ‘change the world or go home.’ This remains [...] […] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to ‘change the world or go home.’ This remains […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-45111 Social Pro Files: Let your corporate Twitter account out of the bottle Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:22:39 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-45111 [...] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains [...] […] earliest cube grenade, The Blue Monster, challenged Microsoft employees in 2006 to “change the world or go home.” This remains […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-41493 Liminal states :: WiseDame: Now *that’s* what I call disruptive (part 6 of TechCrunch, disrupted) Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:28:50 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-41493 [...] whose Blue Monster, aka Change the World or Go Home, was one of Ad Astra’s icons back in Microsoft [...] […] whose Blue Monster, aka Change the World or Go Home, was one of Ad Astra’s icons back in Microsoft […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-40462 Research and Strategy | Graham Bell Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:02:05 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-40462 [...] For an interesting take on an all-pervading business goal, learn a little about Microsoft’s ‘Blue Monster’. [...] […] For an interesting take on an all-pervading business goal, learn a little about Microsoft’s ‘Blue Monster’. […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-38615 Reading roundup for Mon Sep 6: Next-gen tech careers, the fate of online writings of dead authors, the Congress disappoints India, ‘unlearning’, Blue Monster and more « rahul gaitonde dot org Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:04:02 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-38615 [...] Hugh MacLeod (from back in 2007) on the Blue Monster poster that he designed for friends at Microsoft for fun, and which ended up getting a large amount of public endorsement from folks at Microsoft. [...] […] Hugh MacLeod (from back in 2007) on the Blue Monster poster that he designed for friends at Microsoft for fun, and which ended up getting a large amount of public endorsement from folks at Microsoft. […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-38542 Podcast: Interview with Microsoft’s Steve Clayton, Geek in Disguise | Loopstatic Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:16:04 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-38542 [...] to push the boundaries externally and internally about how much we can change opinion. So this Blue Monster cartoon is really gathering steam internally and externally so that, now, people email me and say [...] […] to push the boundaries externally and internally about how much we can change opinion. So this Blue Monster cartoon is really gathering steam internally and externally so that, now, people email me and say […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-36411 Change the world or go home Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:27:58 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-36411 [...] see your ass coming at you. And just for the record – I didn’t think that phrase up. My art supplier Hugh MacLeod did – in 2006. And yes – I have THAT [...] […] see your ass coming at you. And just for the record – I didn’t think that phrase up. My art supplier Hugh MacLeod did – in 2006. And yes – I have THAT […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-29068 Microsoft’s Creative Destruction Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:15:26 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-29068 [...] business models to listen to their research departments.Monster pic by gapingvoid obviously – oh the irony 6. February 2010 | Tags: collaboration, collaborative-innovation, innovation, microsoft, [...] […] business models to listen to their research departments.Monster pic by gapingvoid obviously – oh the irony 6. February 2010 | Tags: collaboration, collaborative-innovation, innovation, microsoft, […]

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-15308 Alex James Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:46:58 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-15308 Hugh, Now that I'm packing up my family and leaving little old NZ behind to join MS, I for one will definitely be attempting to live the Blue Monster mantra... Alex Hugh,
Now that I’m packing up my family and leaving little old NZ behind to join MS, I for one will definitely be attempting to live the Blue Monster mantra…
Alex

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-15307 Maria Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:05:46 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-15307 I think you are very creative and artistic, Hugh. I like that. I love business cards...I have quite a collection. Gotta say, all those teeth on that Blue Monster make me think it wants to eat up the world.... There's this movie...The Langoliers - book by Stephen King where similarly shaped but more rounded objects do just that...eat up the world.....can't shake it....but I'm trying to think out of the box....gotta say you got me thinking...thinking, thinking....man it's hard to think out of the box......darn! that Langoliers movie image just won't die... I found a youtube excerpt..... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search=" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search=" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search=" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search=" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search=</a></a></a></a> .I like making odd connections... filling the gap so to speak.....:) I think you are very creative and artistic, Hugh. I like that. I love business cards…I have quite a collection. Gotta say, all those teeth on that Blue Monster make me think it wants to eat up the world.… There’s this movie…The Langoliers — book by Stephen King where similarly shaped but more rounded objects do just that…eat up the world.….can’t shake it.…but I’m trying to think out of the box.…gotta say you got me thinking…thinking, thinking.…man it’s hard to think out of the box.…..darn! that Langoliers movie image just won’t die… I found a youtube excerpt.…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1Gixpx1cI&mode=related&search= .I like making odd connections… filling the gap so to speak.….:)

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2006/10/30/the-blue-monster/#comment-15306 Danny_pb Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:35:45 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=3189#comment-15306 Goddag! Check this out! <a></a> * Goddag!
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