THE ISTANBUL COMPANY OF FRIENDS (CoF)

While I was working in Istanbul, I founded the Fast Company Istanbul Company of Friends in July 2001. The aim was to create a networking group of action oriented and like-minded people with similar depths of understanding, diverse backgrounds and motley talents who shared a passion for the new world of work.

Through our activities, we developed new concepts for management and business design in Turkey, and shared ideas on diverse issues. The main driving force was personal development through intellectual debate and action. The emphasis being on quality intellectual contribution focusing on tangible results for personal, corporate and social benefit.

The Istanbul CoF was an experiment in community building and idea generation. The topics on the left are the results of our meetings and online discussions. It is a model which has a place within companies to generate ideas on projects, processes and strategy.