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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: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday September 29 2014, @03:44PM
The point I get from it is that a product or service will be well and quickly designed/developed/implemented using their formula. You can design the best product in the world and have it beaten my something inferior because as you say, the timing is wrong, it's ahead of its time, it's badly marketed, etc.
With Android, the other current platforms are all reasonable choices (for most, not me), I think Android is just better. I'd probably prefer Maemo as well, but it's not really an option at this point.