T-Shaped Stars: The Backbone of Collaborative Culture

An Interview with IDEO CEO Tim Brown
By Morten T. Hansen

IDEO is a world-leading design firm, with offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, Boston and Shanghai, among other places. Consistently ranked as one of the most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is famous for its method of innovation based on intense cross-disciplinary project work. To pull this off, the company has long practiced the art of collaboration and the development of a certain kind of talent: T-shaped people.

In the interview to follow, IDEO CEO Tim Brown talks about this radically different approach to talent management.

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