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How Google Works

Written by: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Narrated by: Holter Graham, Jonathan Rosenberg
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In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted "smart creatives."

Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.

In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that. Business Management & Leadership Professionals & Academics Workplace & Organizational Behaviour Management Technology Leadership Innovation Career
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What the critics say

"An informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman's perspective."—Kirkus
"An energized and exciting primer on creating a company and workforce prepared to meet an inspiring future."—Publisher's Weekly
"Chairman Eric Schmidt and exec advisor Jonathan Rosenberg pull back the curtain to reveal how the company created its unique culture of workplace innovation."—Fortune
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loved it, easy to read and understand. Google is one of the best mantality company in the world

great book

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Recommended for all business leaders. Dripping with wisdom. It’s a shock to me that a company so large and successful would “give their secrets away”.

One of the best books I ever read

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multiple platitudes and the occasional contradiction can be forgiven when the majority is pure gold.

worth it

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One of the best points “ Hire employees who gets things done, not those who see problems only “

Nice book

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