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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, @03:47PM
Also what works at google does not necessarily work everywhere.
It works at google because they built their culture around it. It would not necessarily translate somewhere else.
Basically fish swim in water it does not translate that they can fly thru the air very well and a bird does not necessarily swim thru water very well. They are a product of their environment. Where making a mistake means someone clicked on the wrong web page. But for someone like GM a mistake means they made 2 million wrong things and costs millions of dollars to fix and maybe a few people died.
Mistakes vs cost drives the type of business you have. As it depends on the kinds of easy mistakes.