Misread the name. Sorry for the gender slip. And to Trevor's point about contributing to the culture of the space instead of trying to build a culture inside a culture - spot on, mate.
Aaron Cruikshank Principal, CRUIKSHANK phone: 778.908.4560 e-mail: aa...@cruikshank.me web: cruikshank.me <http://www.cruikshank.me> twitter: @cruikshank <https://twitter.com/cruikshank> book a meeting: doodle.com/cruikshank <http://www.doodle.com/cruikshank> linkedin: in/cruikshank <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruikshank> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Susan Dorsch <su...@officenomads.com> wrote: > I think that she (not he - worth noting!) pinpoints a lot of elements that > are worth taking note of. Over the years I've noticed that members come to > coworking spaces not to be sold things, but usually to fulfill more > emotional needs. I heard a lot of that frustration in Rebekah's article, > and it's worth taking note of instead of simply shrugging off. Because the > emotional stuff is complicated and tough to put your finger on sometimes. > But paying attention to it is critical to ensuring the sustainability of > your coworking community. > > Sure, we can shrug and say that she should have kept looking for the right > space (and I'd recommend that she keep looking - sounds like she hasn't > found the right spot yet). But there are a lot of lessons in there that we > can glean as well. She specifically calls out that the space was organized > in such a way that it was nearly impossible to build a culture. We should > be listening to feedback like that - even in spaces where we feel like > we've got the culture "right." I read this article and dove right away into > reviewing our systems here at Office Nomads to be sure that we encourage > our members to build the culture here as much as they want to. > > Again, it's easy to shrug off articles like this and point holes in this > individual's experience, but look closer and you'll find there is a lot to > be learned from her experience. > > S > > > > __ > Office Nomads > officenomads.com > 206-323-6500(o) > 206-484-5859(m) > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Cruikshank <aa...@cruikshank.me> > wrote: > >> Sounds to me like this is not the kind of guy who should be in a >> coworking space. >> I used to get these kinds of guys all the time at the space I used to run >> and I would always re-direct them to local tech incubators. Not that >> they're any less noisy or chaotic... >> It sounds like what he needed was a private office but all he could >> afford was hotdesking. >> >> Aaron Cruikshank >> Principal, CRUIKSHANK >> phone: 778.908.4560 >> e-mail: aa...@cruikshank.me >> web: cruikshank.me <http://www.cruikshank.me> >> twitter: @cruikshank <https://twitter.com/cruikshank> >> book a meeting: doodle.com/cruikshank <http://www.doodle.com/cruikshank> >> linkedin: in/cruikshank <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruikshank> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Susan Dorsch <su...@officenomads.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Out in the New York Times (h/t to Steve King >>> <http://www.twitter.com/smallbizlabs> - I caught the article via his >>> Twitter Feed): >>> http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/why-i-ditched-my-co-working-space/ >>> >>> There is so much I could say about this article, but I'll just start >>> with saying how useful I think this piece is for any >>> owner/cultivator/tummler out there. Lots of food for thought in there. >>> >>> S >>> __ >>> Office Nomads >>> officenomads.com >>> 206-323-6500(o) >>> 206-484-5859(m) >>> >>> -- >>> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Coworking" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
