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| sqchen raised a very thought-provoking comment in my last post. He raised the possibility of having a communication chip implanted in you brain that allows you to automatically communicate with other people through their communication chips "without bothering our eyes", or more generally, without bothering our senses. Read on for more... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM |
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| Sounds kind of silly out of context, but those of you who work out know exactly what this means. When you're doing something tough like lifting weights or doing pushups, then it's kind of natural to hold your breath and stop breathing. This makes me think about what other otherwise-second-nature things we forget to do when things get tough at work and in our careers... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM |
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I'm a research lab director, and grew up in the research and engineering ranks. Erik is a career consultant for lawyers, and was a practicing lawyer. My Top 10 tips for how to talk in groups were geared towards quiet people... Erik has an interesting set of tips geared towards talkative people. Enjoy! |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Friday, June 22, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM |
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| It's been amazing to have VooDoo join HP and watch our combined company grow. It's no secret that VooDoo co-founder Rahul Sood loves HP Labs. I'm the lucky lab director who cares for much of the cool research that Rahul loves. HP and HP Labs have embraced so much of VooDoo's culture that we can say "VooDoo acquires HP!" Read on for more... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 at 3:56:00 AM |
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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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I attended a number of HP technical strategy meetings last month. I've been at HP for over 10 years, so I've had the opportunity to meet and work with many interesting people from different parts of the company and in different job functions spanning research, engineering, sales, services, strategy, chief technologists, and first-level through executive management. I find it interesting how we each drive forward our passions in our day jobs, and then we cross paths -- sharing what we've done, what we're trying to do, and finding ways we can help each other -- and then we each drive forward in our day jobs again. Best of all, while our jobs, business units, and geographies are different, we are all working together to move the company forward towards a greater common goal. This reminds me a lot of the "give-and-go" that's used in team sports, where players work together to move the ball up the field around their opponents as they try to score a goal... |
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| Posted by Susie Wee on Monday, February 05, 2007 at 11:15:00 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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