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License to Pursue Dreams

By Marissa Mayer - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Passion and momentum build when skilled employees have access to great tools and the time to stretch them in new directions. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google, discusses the groundbreaking company practice of setting aside 20 percent of an employee's time for creative projects. By her own assessment, nearly half of the company's most recent launches came from ideas sparked during this unstructured time.

Course Index

  1. Ideas Come From Everywhere
  2. Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas
  3. Work with Smart People
  4. License to Pursue Dreams
  5. Learning From Mistakes
  6. Data is Apolitical
  7. Creativity Loves Constraint
  8. Bank Users, Not Money
  9. Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them
  10. Surviving the Bubble