Work Rules!

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From the visionary head of Google s innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. We spend time working than doing anything else in life It s not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge This insight is the heart of WORK RULES , a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including Take away managers power over employeesLearn from your best employees and your worstHire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find themPay unfairly it s fair Don t trust your gut Use data to predict and shape the futureDefault to open be transparent and welcome feedbackIf you re comfortable with the amount of freedom you ve given your employees, you haven t gone far enough Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, WORK RULES also provides teaching examples from a range of industries including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees Bock takes us inside one of history s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker RD into principles that are easy to put into action, whether you re a team of one or a team of thousands WORK RULES shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above read it to reawaken your joy in what you do. Best Download Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I think this is a must read for any leader in a modern business Google has done a lot of things right both in their products and also in how they run their company and build their culture, and this is a fairly detailed account of how they ve built an impressive culture, and is written by someone who knows their head of HR I m a little surprised he told as much as he did but I suppose it will only help for recruiting Goodreads is now a subsidiary of , and I have spent significant tim I think this is a must read for any leader in a modern business Google has done a lot of things right both in their products and also in how they run their company and build their culture, and this is a fairly detailed account of how they ve built an impressive culture, and is written by someone who knows their head of HR I m a little surprised he told as much as he did but I suppose it will only help for recruiting Goodreads is now a subsidiary of , and I have spent significant time learning to integrate the best of s culture with ours And I m happy to say that many perhaps most of the best practices listed in the book are also used byThings like hiring people smarter than you, hiring committees and having objective people on them, committees to approve promotions, focusing on the two ta...Laszlo Bock s Work Rules Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and LeadOverall, I really liked this book I learned much and discovered evenMultumesc mult, Laszlo Main positives 1 In the end, and in bits throughout the book, the reader discovers that Google uses not so much a ground breaking process, but rather a data driven iteration of well known HR and to some extent also managerial processes 2 Very good analysis of many HR processes, including detailed an Laszlo Bock s Work Rules Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Li...This should be the new gospel for HR.Disclosure I ve worked at Google for 8 years, and have known Laszlo for much of that time I m a big fan of his, and have worked closely with several of his teams over the years With that out of the way This is a spectacular book, and would be well worth your time whether you re early in your career and trying to figure out ...This is a superb book about making work happier, better, andproductive that should be read bywell, everyone who works in an organization of any size The author is the head of Google s People Operations.Page after page of Bock s book highlight the unconventional and successful approaches Google has taken to its employees from the big upfront investment in hiring, to taking authority away from managers, to Googlegeist, to interest clubs Moreover, Bock and his team make an extraordinary This is a superb book about making work happier, better, andproductive that should be read bywell, everyone who works in an organization of any size The author is the head of Google s People Operations.Page after page of Bock s book highlight the unconventional and successful approaches Google has taken to its employees from the big upfront investment in hiring, to taking authority away from managers, to Googlegeist, to interest clubs Moreover, Bock and his team make an...Actually one of the best books I ve ever read in the area of people management and about HR organization Of course the book is filled with google anecdotes but if you filter out the propaganda there is a deep and very interesting understanding about performance management, about what drives people and result, about that you need to be unfair instead of looking at bell curves, about constant feedback and most interesting of all, lots and lots of examples of how to be data driven in your HR work Actually one of the best books I ve ever read in the area of people ...It s a tough one to review as it s possibly quite personal for me being in HR I can so relate to some of the issues experienced but also find it helpful to look at it from adata driven perspective I am always struck by how your frame of mind impacts your experience of a book If you re ready to hear it, you want to hearWhen you re not ready, it s not so fun to read I had a bit of both during this both.One thought I had was that this book will makepeople want to apply at Goo It s a tough one to review as it s possibly quite personal for me being in HR I can so relate to some of the issues experienced but also find it helpful to look at it from adata driven perspective I am always struck by how your frame of mind impacts your experienc...While I haven t quite drank the kool aid that Google is the bestest place ever to work and has HR all figured out, they certainly have studied itthan anyone else and this book is thought provoking and definitely gets the juices flowing on better ways to do things .Did this book transform how I live and lead No It s nowhere near as revolutionary or life changing as its subtitle would have you believe It has a lot of interesting ideas, made eveninteresting since they re from the context of Google I m sure most people have heard or seen glimpses of how Google supposedly works and treats their people, so having a book where those are explicitly divulged was nice As with most business books, there were concepts I agreed with and a bunch I didn t see Did this book transform how I live and lead No It s nowhere near as revolutionary or life changing as its subtitle would have you believe It has a lot of interesting ideas, made eveninteresting since they re from the context of Google I m sure most people have heard or seen glimpses of how Google supposedly works and treats their people, so having a book where those ...

Work Rules!
  • English
  • 03 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 406 pages
  • 1455554790
  • Laszlo Bock
  • Work Rules!