Google's 9 Rules

We love simple rules so thanks to Chuck Frey and Paul Hobcraft for alerting us to these from Google:

From Chuck Frey's Innovation Tools: Thanks to alert reader Paul Hobcraft for alerting me a link to this video on the Stanford website, in which Google VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer (their innovation guru) gives a presentation on the search engine giant’s nine principles of innovation. These rules are:

1. Ideas come from everywhere
2. Cheer everything you can
3. You're brilliant, we're hiring
4. A license to pursue dreams
5. Innovation, not instant perfection
6. Data is apolitical
7. Creativity loves constraints
8. It's users, not money
9. Don't kill projects, morph them

Marissa also gives examples of how each principle has been applied in practice This presentation contains many ideas and practices that you may be able to adapt to your organization. You can view the presentation by clicking here (approximate length, 45 minutes).