Scott Berkun on Google's 20% Time

March 29, 2010 by Matt Perman

For his book The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun researched lots of mechanisms similar to Google’s 20% time. He summarizes some observations regarding the most common misconceptions of the concept in a helpful post from a few years ago.

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