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Work rules!, insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead, Laszlo Bock

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-396) and index

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Work rules!

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Laszlo Bock

insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead

From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations--a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring the best and brightest succeed""We spend more 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 with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and with a profound grasp of human psychology, Bock also provides teaching examples from a range of industries -- including companies that are household names but 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 R&D into delightfully counterintuitive principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands. Cleaving the knot of conventional management, some lessons from WORK RULES! include: Take away managers' power over employees Learn from your best employees - and your worst Only hire people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it's fairer!) Don't trust your gut: use data to predict and shape the future Default to open: be transparent, and welcome feedback If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough 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. "--, Provided by publisher

Preface: A Guidance Counselor's Nightmare Building the perfect, Google resume, in retrospect -- Why Google's Rules Will Work for You : The surprising (and surprisingly successful) places that work just as we do -- 1. Becoming a Founder : Just as Larry and Sergey laid the foundation for hos Google treats its people, you can lay the foundation for how your team works and lives -- 2. "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" : If you give people freedom, they will amaze you -- 3. Lake Wobegon, Where All the New Hires Are Above Average : Why hiring is the single most important people activity in any organization -- 4. Searching for the Best : The evolution of Google's "self-replicating talent machine" -- 5. Don't Trust Your Gut : Why our instincts keep us from being good interviewers, and what you can do to hire better -- 6. Let the Inmates Run the Asylum : Take power from your managers and trust your people to run things -- 7. Why Everyone Hates Performance Management, and Wht We Decided to Do About It : Improve performance by focusing on personal growth instead of ratings and rewards -- 8. The Two Tails : The biggest opportunities lie in your absolute worst ans best employees -- 9. Building a Learning Institution : Your best teachers already work for you ... Let them teach! -- 10. Pay Unfairly : Why it's okay to pay two people in the same job completely different amounts -- 11. The Best Things in Life Are Free (or Almost Free) : Most of Google's people programs can be duplicated by anyone -- 12. Nudge...a Lot : Small signals can cause large changes in behavior. How one email can improve productivity by 25 percent -- 13. It's Not All Rainbows and Unicorns : Google's biggest people mistakes and what you can do to avoid them -- 14. What You Can Do Starting Tomorrow : Ten steps to transformyour team and your workplace -- Afterword for HR Geeks Only: Building the World's First People Operations Team : The blueprints for a new kind of HR -- Work Rules -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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