Wednesday, March 19, 2008

10% Time

Last week I listened for the third time to Marissa Mayer’s amazingtalk at Stanford about Google’s culture of innovation. (I can’t linkto it right now. I’m blogging from my blackberry.) She lists the top 9reasons that Google is innovative.One of them, of course, is that every Google engineer gets to work ontheir own pet project for 20% of the time. Marissa says that in thesecond half of 2005, 50% of the products Google introduced came from20% time.Another was that "ideas come from everywhere," including custo[...]

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