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The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Organizational cultural identity, HELP systems, and the end of English as the lingua franca.O'Reilly's Jenn Webb sits down with Mary Yoko Brannen, the president and CEO of CLIA Consulting, the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) chair at the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, and a professor of international business and research director at the University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business. Brannen is an expert in ethnomethodology and qualitative studies of complex cultural organizational phenomena. She spends a lot of time focused on how changing cultural contexts affect technology and how to leverage cultural identity in the global workplace. We unpack all that in this episode and talk about how her proposed "ethnographic thinking" approach can address language and culture gaps in the global marketplace. Here are a few highlights from our chat: I'm an organizational anthropologist. What does that mean? It means that, like anthropologists study far-a

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Getting a seat at the table is one thing; understanding what to do with it is way more important.O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Aaron Irizarry, director of user experience for Nasdaq product design, about Nasdaq's journey to become a design-driven organization. Irizarry also talks about the best ways to have solid conversations about the designs you're working on, and why getting a seat at the proverbial table isn't the endgame.Here are a few snippets from their conversation: It's really interesting to see an organization that didn't have a product design team as of, what, 2011, I believe, see the need for that, bring someone in, hire them to establish a team, which is my boss Chris, and then see just the transition and the growth within the company, and how they embraced product design. The more we delivered, the more we built equity within the company to be able to kind of have more of a say. … What has really helped us is that we didn't just focus on g