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 right philosophies around these things, and it’s important that we not hire these guys. It’s better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google.’”
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Cade also said; “Read that again. It’s worth it.” Just my words : – )

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

Why Segway Failed To Reshape The World: Focused On Invention Rather Than Innovation – a post by Mike Masnick

Implement Open Innovation Strategy: Focus On Input – Rob Veldt urges you to focus on the input side of open innovation

The Open Minded Professor – Erich Von Hippel on open source, lead user and open innovation

Video With John Hagel On Innovation In Emerging Countries

How Customer Co-Creation Is The Future Of Business – Graham Hill presents a series of principles that guide our thinking about what co-creation is (good focus on life-time usage)

Why Creative Leaders Are So Rare – insights by Navi Radjou

How Knowledge Can Hurt Innovation – Scott Anthony focuses on the “curse of knowledge”

The Next Step In Open Innovation – McKinsey looks into the direction of knowledge creation

Today´s Disruptions Are Tomorrow´s Incrementals – Jeffrey Phillips writes about two significant challenges for disruptive innovation; danger and time

The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused) – great piece in New York Times; one of the most tweeted articles on open innovation

Enjoy!