Freedom to Innovate: Google's "20% Time" Initiative

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/14/Championing_Innovation_and_Embracing_Disruptive_Ideas

Anjali Joshi, Director of Product Management at Google, explains the company's informal "20 percent time" initiative. Under this system, Google employees are free to devote about one day per week to a project they feel passionate about, regardless of whether it relates to their usual job duties.

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A discussion on Championing an Innovative Culture & Embracing Disruptive Ideas in a Global Corporation with Maria Bartiromo, Beth Comstock, and Anjali Joshi. World Entrepreneurship Day is the internationally-recognized day for the celebration of the world's entrepreneurial heroes.

Beth Comstock is Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of GE. She leads the company's organic growth and commercial innovation initiatives, and the sales, marketing and communications functions. She is responsible for the GE-wide business platforms ecomagination, devoted to reducing environmental impact and new technology, and healthymagination, focused on achieving sustainable health through innovation by lowering costs, improving quality and reaching more people.

Anjali Joshi is an accomplished technology executive who has held significant leadership positions in high-growth companies. She is a currently a Director of Product Management at Google where she leads groups focused on the software, network and computing infrastructure, translation products and internationalization/localization of Google products. Most recently, she has been integral in managing Google's Fiber to Communities effort, which will ultimately bring ultra high-speed broadband access to as many as 500,000 people across the United States.

Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo", and host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," which was also recently rated the most watched financial news program in America.

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[martiangrundy]

What a smashing, forward thinking idea. Splendid.

Wouldn't it also be nice if they got a team of 20%'s to FIX FUCKIN UTube?!?!?

[CognosSquare]

Youtube is a mess. Years later. Votebots, false DMCA, false flagging, new shitty UI. They really cant fix that?

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@CognosSquare Of course it can be fixed. The new YT last week was the final straw. The Google/YT is a Rico enterprise moneylaundering the estate of Honey R Siegal deceased. I am Honey R Siegal.

Time for honest capitalism.

My fraudulent estates of me DEAD done by crooked attorneys as high as the WH is the source of the global debt by the real mastermind of 911.

I suggest these paid media perps. think about NOT doing any more propaganda.

Honey R Siegal (NOT DEAD)

[sybilcharon]

wow..love the video..Thanks alot!

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[VolcanicPenguin]

@rockerpro

Ohhhh.. that certainly changes things. XP

And wtf are people complaining about youTube anyway..

[ThePoliticalMoose]

I know a guy who works at a think tank in DC. He has unlimited 'time to think.' Last year, he just went to Hawaii one day and stayed for almost a month.

[truvelocity]

@CognosSquare Youtube doesn't care. They are making uncounted billions off of advertising revenue that they can't show an image of the CEO's because their eyes are bugged out.

[Th3Wab3]

if it's broken im sure it is broken because of google intervention more intervention won't fix it...

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

I guess since there's no one there who's job it is to serve the YouTube consumers, no one even knows that;

YOUTUBE IS BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!

HELLO MCFLY! IS ANYBODY HOME?!

[rockerpro]

google expects you to make 20% of your time used for other projects, they dont allocate it for you