People Create Eco-Systems: Great Lesson from Google

I stumbled over some great quotes from Bradley Horowitz, who is a Vice President at Google. It appeared in an article by Cade Metz -Google: We Avoid Hiring Too Many Smart People…

Cade wrote / Bradley said:

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Apparently, Google is so concerned with others keeping it on its toes, it avoids hiring too many of the industry’s leading brains. “I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google and I pointed out a handful of people that I thought were fruitful in the industry and I proposed that we should hire these people,” Horowitz told today’s conference.

“But [the engineer] stopped me and said: ‘These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They’re very Google people that have the...

Good reads on innovation #3

Here comes a list of reads, videos and podcasts on innovation that I have enjoyed and re-tweeted in the last couple of weeks. I hope you will enjoy this as well.

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Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation -  a must-read interview with Karim R. Lakhani

Winning The Contest Of Ideas – examples of cash prize contests to spur innovation from Netflix, X Prize and Cisco

How Does China Compare To Europe and US in Innovation? – podcast with Kevin Ryan

A Look Behind the Silver Lining – Boris Pluskowski’s honest and helpful review of The Silver Lining book by Scott Anthony

Buying, Not Making Innovation – good thoughts on Google by Joel West...