Category Archives: Meltwater Culture
Culture is an integral part of Meltwater’s success. It’s what keeps us going through each day, it’s what brings us back to work the next morning, and it’s what makes us proud to be Meltwater employees. So while our managing directors in all 57 of our offices are in charge of reaching sales targets and developing management, they also have the big responsibility of building and maintaining Meltwater culture – it’s the glue that binds us.
Recently, the San Francisco office has had a few discussions about revamping our office culture and bringing some spice back into our office traditions. We thought…
As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about what I want to read next and what books to recommend for book club, I recently took a poll of what people are reading around the Meltwater offices to see if I could find any good recommendations.
One of our managing directors highly recommended Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and said that it’s actually had big influence on his career at Meltwater: “I finished it right before I started working at Meltwater and some of the things I took away from that book still play a strong role in my driving factors…
It’s only the second month of 2011 and already so much has happened!
The astrological signs changed and then changed back again; The Wikileaks and Julian Assange saga continues; The Green Bay Packers won the XLV Super Bowl and Lady Gaga is back at the top of the U.S. music charts; Finally, on a more serious note, social and political uprisings erupted across the Middle East.
Before we become too involved in 2011 and look too far to the future, I want to first reflect on all of the positive things that happened in 2010. More specifically, I want to reflect on some of the wonderful…
Remember the first time you watched Spielberg’s Jaws? With their great, gnashing, razor sharp teeth and thrashing tail, Great White Sharks became the resident monster that lurked in the ‘depths’ of the swimming pool and on the ‘other side’ of the bath tub. I don’t know about you, but I was a scaredy cat to the core and have always had a fascination with these amazing creatures. Locals here in South Africa have an unspoken understanding with the wildlife inhabiting shared spaces. Basically, it comes down to leaving one another alone – you can admire from afar in ‘oohs and aahs’…
After never having advanced to a football world cup semi-final before, the Spanish team or “La Roja” (The Reds) as the team is called in Spain, went all the way and secured the title of World Champion last Sunday.
“Podemos!” (“we can!”) was the anthem that accompanied them during this year’s world cup.
Millions of people around the world watched the Spanish people celebrate this historical victory in the streets all over Spain and the Spanish people never seemed more united.
With regards to unity this is not so easy in Spain. History has divided the different regions (especially Catalonia (the capital being…
