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posted by LaminatorX on Monday September 29 2014, @01:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the One-word:-"plastics" dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @02:58PM (#99607)

    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."

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