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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: 1) by Buck Feta on Monday September 29 2014, @02:49PM
> What exactly is the "formula" for success, other than being first? All things are usually equal with talent and drive, and the successful people are usually ones who are at the right place at the right time.
This is exactly how I feel about John Coltrane, Marie Curie, Picasso, Issac newton, Shakespeare, and Archimedes.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @03:05PM
That's a good point. One could argue that Yahoo! was actually the first to grasp the business potential of a web portal. And Google wasn't the first with text search either.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by forsythe on Monday September 29 2014, @03:10PM
Leibniz would not appreciate your sarcasm.
(Score: 1) by Buck Feta on Monday September 29 2014, @03:13PM
Neither would Dexter Wallman.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 29 2014, @03:24PM
Newton invents calc = original submarine patent
Invents, files, keeps it secret, Leibniz invents it independently and newton's all "plagarizer!" and releases the patent lawyers with their submarine patent and 400 years later, just like SCO, they still won't give it a rest. You snooze you loose, Newton.
Newton was a pretty cool bro-mathematician other than the whole patent trolling Leibniz thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 01 2014, @01:35PM
I remember hanging our with Newton late at night in his lab. We'd get high on fumes and try to turn lead into gold!
Good times.