Business Week is running an article titled How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory which is an interview with CEO Eric Schmidt in regards to how Google fosters new ideas. The best question and answer in the interview is the simplest one:
Can innovation really be managed, or is it a case where you have to [...]
In a notebook, email, text file, whatever, during the day, write down:
* What you did.
* What you need to do.
* What you don’t know.
You’ll be amazed what you learn about yourself.
Jijnes - What did you get out of the status meetings?
Engineer - A lot of tic-tac-toe
Working for a large corporation in a management role, I tend to attend quite a few meetings. As a general rule of thumb I don’t attend all of them, I attend those I feel I will gain information, be able to provide information, or make decisions.
I’ve recently been invited to a recurring status meeting [...]