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Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses? The authors of “How Google Works,” ( http://www.howgoogleworks.net/ ) Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, and Jonathan Rosenberg, a former senior product manager at Google, firmly believe that they can.
The critical ingredient, they argue in their new book, is to build teams, companies and corporate cultures around people they call “smart creatives.” These are digital-age descendants of yesterday’s “knowledge workers,” a term coined in 1959 by Peter Drucker, the famed management theorist.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/the-google-formula-for-success/
Do people of SN agree that such success can be replicated in diverse environments, diverse cultures? Or, is Google's success one of a kind?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:08PM
This is about as useful as asking a centenarian what their secret for longevity is, or asking a billionaire what his secret for getting so rich is. It's called post hoc justification. Guess what, you can do everything they say and chances are you will not live to 100+ or become immensely wealthy. IF IT WAS THAT EASY EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:58PM
That reminds me of an old joke:
A reporter asks a centenarian what his secret for old age is.
The man answers: "Well, I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I keep away from the women."
Suddenly there's a loud noise from the next room. The scared reporter asks: "What was that?"
The man answers: "Don't worry, that's just my father. He's drunk, as usual."
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday October 01 2014, @09:37AM
Also known as survivor's bias.
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