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Episode 5 - Clarity at speed
Show Notes
Google iterates in 30-minute increments, which is part of why this massive company is able to innovate so quickly at scale. This involves making mistakes, but recovering and correcting quickly. The pace at Google is a far cry from the stereotypical image of people lying around on beanbags or playing foosball. As Managing Director for Global Public Sector Strategy and Sales at Google, Todd Schroeder has to work across multiple teams who are serving markets at different stages along the maturity curve. This means the idea of clarity can change from a traditional sense of certainty into becoming clear that things are uncertain. In the midst of a global pandemic, the job of leading multiple teams moved from knowing what to do, to finding out what to do.
Dan, Pia and Todd discuss the process a new Google employee (a "noogler") goes through to becoming a full-fledged Googler, and some of the challenges they face along the way.
Takeaways from Dan and Pia
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Meet the guests
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Todd Schroeder is the Managing Director of Global Public Sector Digital Strategy. Todd has spent the last 15 years leading government technology development and implementation. Most recently, he was the VP Government Digital Strategy for Salesforce and before that was the Chief Digital Strategist for Phase One Consulting, now Accenture Federal Services. Previously, Todd was the Chief of Digital Services at the United States Department of Agriculture, Director of Business Systems Management, National Data Management Coordinator, and Senior Software Engineer and Database Manager. Leveraging his experience as a software engineer, federal technology consultant, government technology executive, and management consulting executive, Todd and his team partner with Government to co-create methods to deliver government innovation for employees, partners and citizens - ultimately delivering digital government. Todd is a thought leader in cloud technologies and digital services, developing repeatable frameworks for speeding cloud migrations, increasing solution adoption, maximizing the value of Cloud and AI technology models, and reducing total cost of ownership. Todd is a graduate of Colorado State University and University of Maryland University College, where he received a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis on Computer Information Systems, Masters in Technology Management, and Chief Information Officer Certification. Todd is a Wyoming native currently living in Annapolis, MD and spends as much time in the great outdoors, hands off a keyboard, as often as he can.
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