Culture Innovation Technical Cofounder 
Leapfrogging
JANUARY 19, 2020
Mentoring transforms big ideas into high-impact innovations. Having worked with dozens of the Fortune 1000 companies , coached startups, and founded three companies, I can say there’s a universal truth when it comes to innovation: big ideas are just ideas until they deliver real value to the world. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 3, 2018
He’s the founder and Managing Editor for IEDP – covering the global executive development sector– and cofounder of IEDP’s sister organization, Ideas for Leaders , which reviews, distills and shares the latest research on business leadership coming out of universities and business schools around the globe.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? It is the intensity of its people’s passion for innovation that animates IDEOs processes, he contends, forming a culture that’s “not typical, and not easy to emulate.”
Harvard Business Review
JULY 26, 2011
As brand equity investment, innovation playground and — most important of all — a novel way to interact with millions of curious and engaged customers, Google Labs was a brilliant institutional initiative. It offered an innovation model worthy of emulation by enterprises worldwide. Just how valuable were these data?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2017
The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. I imagined myself as a cultural anthropologist, intrigued and fascinated by this new habitat.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations. Narrowly focused.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2013
Later, when Ben mentioned his desire to make a positive impact in his community, the CEO assured Ben that the venture would impact the very way the human race communicated with each other, across cultures, political differences and national territories — literally bringing the world together. And so, he decided to join in the effort.
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