Innovation at Google
Posted on May 7, 2006 Comments (2)
Turning Limitations into Innovation by Marissa Ann Mayer:
people working on it have spent so much time and are so personally invested that it’s too painful to walk away. They often know the project is misguided, yet they see the effort through to the painful, unsuccessful end. That’s why it’s important to discover failure fast and abandon it quickly. A limited investment makes it easier to walk away and move on to something else that has a better chance of success.
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Posted by John Hunter
Categories: Google, Innovation, Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Systems thinking
Categories: Google, Innovation, Management, Management Articles, Psychology, Systems thinking
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November 12th, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
I found it interesting that Eric Schmidt teaches at Standford even while being the CEO of Google, because as he says he learns from students questions. The podcast series, done by 2 Stanford students, has quite an impressive list of, I guess, visiting speakers at Stanford: Andy Grove, Alex Counts, David Kelley…
June 27th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Companies like Google, Amazon, Lego, New York Times are taking advantage of technology to leverage community efforts to improve the value of their service to customers…