The Digital Mindset

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our own journeys toward a digital mindset began in the early 2000s when we enrolled in Stanford University’s Management Science and Engineering PhD program. Neither one of us had an engineering background, though both of us had worked in or with high-tech companies and were convinced that technology would be core to the future of work. The experience of working alongside engineers while learning new methodologies and ways of thinking charted the course for the next decades of our work that helped us build and refine our conceptualization of a digital mindset. We will be forever grateful to Steve Barley, Bob Sutton, Diane Bailey, and Pam Hinds at Stanford’s Center for Work, Technology, and Organization for helping us start down ...