First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When conducting research for his latest book, Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner interviewed hundreds of thought leaders in creativity, innovation, and talent management. One of them is Judy Gilbert, director of Talent at Google. Here’s what Gilbert has to say: [.].

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Gilbert Skills Talent Management Innovation 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * That ubiquitous red contraption contains just about every feature you can imagine. A nail clipper, ice pick, and Philips screwdriver. None of the individual tools are especially remarkable – [.].

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Innovation Tools Resources Gilbert 80

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Gilbert Banking CEO Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. There have been plenty of recent examples where shareholders would have been well served by systems to curtail wild risks. Gilbert says he has found success from creating a "modular exchange" between the old and new business.

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Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Policy innovation. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. According to the blog Detroit Unspun , Gilbert and his firm Rock Ventures now own or control more than 30 properties downtown, totaling 7.5 I don''t know. Bankruptcy.

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