Race...reminds me of the ONE panel discussion i attended last year at Dragon, the DARPA panel. They expect 90% or higher failure, but as it is defense department and governmental spending, it is not as hard to believe as corporate spending
and the 1-9% of their items that are winners...are HUGE On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Race <[email protected]> wrote: > It is my firm belief that the only way Google can get away with a > strategy like this is their hiring practice. They are apparently > ferociously stringent on hiring very smart people. Even the non- > technical need to be well above-average intelligence. > > When you have that huge pool of high caliber of people able to work on > what they want, its just a matter of time before diamonds start > getting sifted from the rough. > > Gmail anyone? > > On Apr 12, 6:10 pm, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Came across a section that I thought was pertinent to all the speculation > on > > Android tablets and whether or not Chrome OS will ever be employed: > > > > Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user > > experience, believes that the > > company’s future success hinges on innovation. She encourages risk-taking > > and readily acknowl- > > edges that 60–80% of the company’s new products will fail. However, > creating > > an organizational > > culture that embraces failure also helps produce the new product > > introductions that should sustain > > the company’s future sales growth > > (Garrison, Ray H.. Managerial Accounting, 13th Edition. McGraw-Hill > Higher > > Education/CourseSmart, 02/13/2009. 520) > > > > So I guess to Google it's to be expected for things like Wave to utterly > > flop. I guess Google is the true antithesis to Apple; Apple is elegant, > all > > products are seamlessly integrated, and control of the product line is > about > > as central as you can get where Google's products are utilitarian, > hardware > > is farmed out to any manufacturer that is interested (and software is > freely > > altered and adapted), and the strategy seems to be let the engineers roam > > free and see what of the things they come up with stick. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
