You've got to give great tools to small teams.
Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent tools... so that they are
very productive in terms of what they are doing.
Innompic-style
presentation of their innovative
solution by Vietnam team in semi-finals
of the 2nd World
Innompic Games
Google's hiring
process →
"Our
hiring process is legendary.
We have hiring committees that
are checked by other committees.
An engineering candidate talks
to an average of eight
engineers. I talked to 20 people
before I was hired. I'll ask
candidates
who aren't engineers how to
build a Web crawler. The right
answer doesn't matter. I want to
hear you
think the
problem through,
because the odds are good that
since we're an
innovative company, you're
not going to know how to do what
you're going to be asked to do.
You're going to have to
figure it
out." ~
Douglas Merrill,
Google
When I started Oracle, my primary goal
was to create an environment where I would enjoy working with people
I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.
I took anybody. They were a full
collection of people. They took risks in their careers. Some
were misfits at other places. I took a lot of misfits in.
"Intelligent people need a fool
to lead them. When the team's
all a bunch of scientists, it is
best to have a peasant to lead
the way. He thinks differently.
It's easier to win if you have
people seeing things from
different perspectives."
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a
skill that can be learnt. It
empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which
improves teamwork, productivity and profits.
"Part of what made the Macintosh
great was that the
people working on it were
musicians, and poets, and
artists, and zoologists, and
historians who also happened to
be the best computer scientists
in the world."
~
Steve Jobs
"We hire people and screen them
for what we call BVAC
characteristics:
Bright,
Verbal,
Assertive,
Creative."
~
Hal Tovin, Citizens Financial
Group
If you want a team of smart, creative
people to do extraordinary things, don’t put them in a drab,
ordinary space.
