leadership – Danielle Smith, PhD

Not So Mad Science: Leading a Research Team in the Real World

Leadership, Product, Professional Development, User Experience

The first time I was asked to “own” product research at work, I thought I would build a Mad Social Science Lab… in about 3 months-time. That was wrong. The building never ends and “I” wasn’t the one building anything. Honestly, I was an admirer of the Mad Scientist trope in fiction. Not the world […]

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A rising tide lifts all spaceships.

Over the last decade or so, my husband and I have adopted the saying “we’ll never get to Alpha Centauri that way.” We pull it out in situations where we observe people being petty, distracted, mean, or otherwise acting against their own collective potential. It wasn’t until recently, however, that I noticed that the idea