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| I just finished a week in Singapore serving as an international panelist for A*STAR's Thematic Strategic Research Programme on mobile media. Every time I go to Singapore, I am impressed with how the country manages its research. Singapore has a very good understanding and appreciation of how research can benefit the country and its people, and it invests accordingly... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM |
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| I just spent a day in Tokyo with my research team in Japan. The researchers in Japan have very interesting perspectives, some of which are quite different from those of the researchers in the US and Europe. Whenever I visit the team, they give me updates and I learn something new about technology, the industry, and the culture. One of the discussion topics on this visit was "working globally"... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 8:04:00 PM |
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Managing research sounds like an oxymoron. How do you manage creativity? How do you manage the creativity of N researchers, where N=1,10,100,...? How do you manage people so that their total output is not just the sum of the individual contributions, but reaches the full potential of the team? Managing research is not easy, but I find an important guiding principle for managing research is aligning passions. Specifically:
- Align the passions of researchers with an important need.
- Align the passions of researchers with their teammates.
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 6:39:00 PM |
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Phil McKinney has a great post on Permission Based Innovation, so please take a minute to read it over. From my perspective as a manager, all I can say is that he is right on with all his points. I have a few additional points:
- The creativity of a team far exceeds the individual creativity of the team leader.
- An idea that comes from the passion of a team member is 10 times more powerful than an idea that comes from the team leader.
- An idea that strikes the passion of both the team member and the team leader will go 10 times faster than an idea that strikes the passion of only one.
- A great idea needs a champion to see it through.
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 3:22:00 PM |
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Every so often someone asks me what I learned in grad school that helped me in the working world. I learned a lot about my research domain (video communications) and about how to do research. I learned a lot from my thesis advisor and from my grad student colleagues and friends. These learnings have helped me throughout my career and in my job today. Going beyond these more predictable answers, I can say that many of my most important learnings from school came from playing team sports...
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 4:22:00 PM |
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