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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

Let it speak for itself.
If it’s done, great. If it lives on, better.

Where do you go for inspiration?

To bed.
Sleep on it, it will come to you.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

Good habits, good food and mutual respect.

What keeps you up at night?

People who sleep very well.

What gets you up in the morning?

A healthy circadian rhythm.

How is your work cross-cultural?

Working with multicultural teams (mainly Chinese-English bilingual)
Working with MNCs entering China, trying to understand the domestic market here.
Helping domestic Chinese companies (and even SOEs) pursuing innovation efforts, growing design (thinking) teams.
In every way, every day.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

I hope to have devoted my life to fighting for more sustainable and human-centered ways of incorporating technology into our lives.

Where do you go for inspiration?

For a run.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

With a heaping dose of humility and an ever-replenishing sense of humor.

What keeps you up at night?

The financial unsustainability of modern life in a major city.

What gets you up in the morning?

Usually, my 5 year old.

How is your work cross-cultural?

The internet is a global community.. though many voices are too often suppressed in mainstream american dialogs on the subject. That said, having been raised as something of a polyglot, I know no other way to approach everything in life than from multiple simultaneous cultural perspectives.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

that beautiful ideas became matter

Where do you go for inspiration?

i like quiet places

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

deep breathing

What keeps you up at night?

coffee and chocolate after 6 pm

What gets you up in the morning?

light and a cuddly lover

How is your work cross-cultural?

for the last five years or so, i’ve been trying to work across geographies… does that make my work cross-cultural? :/)

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

I’ve had the privilege to interact, lead and create with many talented people. I trust that our time together has changed things for somebody somewhere and they will be inspired to continue in that effort.

Where do you go for inspiration?

Bath. Bus. Bed. (Historically proven to be the best place for mental insights to occur)

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

A sense of purpose. Too many organizations focus on layers of program-driven rhetoric that creates an artifice of purpose. Keeping the reason for being simple enables greater focus, not matter how severe the definition of purpose may be.

What keeps you up at night?

People in other times zones wanting to talk.

What gets you up in the morning?

Nature is amazing at dawn. “It never stops and so should I…”

How is your work cross-cultural?

I work in Europe. I have little choice but to make sure that all I do is respectful of cultural nuance. Interactions with people is a key component, you must show in your work and your actions that you respect the cultural need and simultaneously be understood and a person of new ideas. Therein lies a desire to create opportunities that transcend as many cultural hurdles as possible.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

Unforgettable.

Where do you go for inspiration?

Jack Early Park.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

I try to remember what matters.

What keeps you up at night?

Email.

What gets you up in the morning?

Twitter.

How is your work cross-cultural?

Humor and insight ought to be universal. Ought to be.