As a specialist in integrating workplace design and culture as a competitive talent strategy, I spend a lot of time in many different workplaces.

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The most recent darling of workplace design watchers is Valve, a game design company that takes the age-old game of anti-authoritarian organization design to a whole new level.

FORBES: An Organization Design Renaissance

Software company 37Signals, the darling of the bootstrapper movement, began spearheading an anti-meeting work ethos, and talking up its new workplace design ( check out the pictures here), which was practically company philosophy (as articulated by founder Jason Fried in his excellent book Rework for example) expressed as interior design.

FORBES: An Organization Design Renaissance

Depending on how you design the workplace, it can offer a host of benefits.

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