Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock was in charge of Google's people function, which was in charge of attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting "Googlers." Bock's previous experience includes executive positions at General Electric, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, start-ups, non-profits, and acting.
This realization is at the heart of Work Rules!, a compelling and unexpectedly playful manifesto that offers lessons such as:
- Remove managers' authority over employees.
- Learn from your best and worst employees.
- Hire only smarter people than you, no matter how long it takes to find them.
- Pay inequitably (it's more equitable!)
- Don't believe your instincts: Make use of data to forecast and shape the future.
- Be open and transparent by default, and welcome feedback.
- If you're satisfied with the amount of autonomy you've granted your employees, you haven't gone far enough.
Work Rules! also provides teaching examples from a variety of industries—including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees—drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound understanding of human psychology. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into principles that are simple to implement, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands.
Work Is Everything! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, resulting in success that can be measured in terms of both quality of life and market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from without; read it to rediscover your passion for your work.
Author: Laszlo Bock
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transform/dp/1455554790/
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