Creativity and Innovation

I discovered a cool site with some interesting podcasts from Stanford University. One in particular that I listened to was one by Marissa Mayer from Google where she points out nine lessons learned in being creative.

Some of the points I found interesting:

• Work with smart people
• Just like playing sports, you play better when you play with those who are better than you
• Don't be territorial about your ideas
• Look for new ideas everywhere
• Launch early and iterate instead of trying to make things perfect right away
• Rely on the data
• e.g., "How many people had problems with the UI?", "How many people did you test?"
• This makes political battles mostly disappear within the company