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Team debriefing vs. Team introspection
May 19, 2022 by stephanie-mitrano in Culture

Team debriefing vs. Team introspection

I have been wanting for a long time to share about various team practices that I have found useful over the years working with different teams, from startup co-founders to senior corporate managers of large industrial companies. And my views have also evolved over the years, moving from very masculine...

37signals, the mother of small-giant companies 📚
May 6, 2022 by philippe in Culture

37signals, the mother of small-giant companies 📚

37signals is a software company founded 23 years ago in Chicago. It encountered a huge success with a team organization app named Basecamp (which they changed their company name to before reverting recently to 37signals), made some splash with Hey! their web-based email, stirred the App Store controversy, and many...

Feminine innovation culture
April 28, 2022 by stephanie-mitrano in Culture

Feminine innovation culture

On 6th of May 2022, Meaningful Design Agency [https://www.meaningful.fr/] has invited me to share my experience and tips (in French) about the feminine side of innovation [https://www.icopilots.com/feminine-values-in-uncertain-times/]. Here is the translation of what they shared in their newsletter to introduce the talk: >...

One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea.
April 19, 2022 by philippe in Culture

One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea.

I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted many intrapreneurship programs since 2007. The most central and undiscussed design choice for these programs is that one employee (or a small team) will be their project's internal leader. With some common-sense rules and as light...

Solving autonomous vehicles legal responsibility
April 1, 2022 by philippe in Culture

Solving autonomous vehicles legal responsibility

I often speak about the automotive market because it's in such turmoil that from an innovator's perspective, everything is exciting about it. Every part of the business model is changing (or should be), the underlying technologies and manufacturing processes are changing, what customers need is changing,...

Norway, the EV canary in the coalmine
March 22, 2022 by philippe in Culture

Norway, the EV canary in the coalmine

A few years ago, Norway decided that of the new 8,000 cars sold yearly, not a single one should be using fossil fuel by 2025. They might make it so. EV Sales Hit Record in Norway With Fossil Engines Soon GoneElectric car sales hit a new monthly record in...

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