About Geek Boss and Matthew Stibbe
My name is Matthew Stibbe. I’m an entrepreneur, manager, marketer, writer, pilot, wine lover and geek. But not necessarily in that order.
I have been a geek all my life and a boss for the last 30 years. This blog is trying to make sense of it all. In public. One article at a time.
This blog is about refactoring management from a humane, geeky perspective.
The media portrayal of ‘bosses’ gives the wrong impression of what leaders and managers do. The bullying ego-maniac is not a good role-model. Empathy and respect are as important as decisiveness. Skilful means and intelligent analysis are more important than self-confidence.
Geek culture offers a better alternative. Or at least one that works for me. It emphasises playfulness, experimentation, curiosity and meritocracy.
I’m CEO at Articulate Marketing and Turbine and long ago at Intelligent Games. I write about wine at Vincarta and (occasionally) about aviation at Golf Hotel Whiskey and Forbes.
‘Me and this robot, that’s who!’
Richard Feynman and the pleasure of finding things out
The BBC Horizon series has been inspirational for me over my life. For example, the programme Painting by Numbers was one of the main...
How GeekBoss got its name and the ‘muddle’ of coding for Zork
Readers may know that I started my career in computer games. Instead of enjoying ‘the end of history’, back in the 90s, I was CEO of ...
How to run a collaborative change management project (video)
Over the last 18 months, I have been running some huge change projects at my marketing agency. I ran a webinar about the processes I used...
Interview with Stephen Bungay: historian, writer and management guru
Stephen Bungay is a management consultant, academic and author of two remarkable books about the Second World War: The Most Dangerous Enemy...
Silence is golden: how to soundproofing your writing room
It’s difficult to figure out how to write in a world that’s full of distractions. We all know that interruptions kill productivity. But...
How to ask someone to be your business mentor
The Beermat Entrepreneur reckons every startup entrepreneur should have a mentor. So do many TV programs about business, from Dragon’s Den...