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- cubicledrone, on 05/02/2008, -0/+8Step One: Hire smart people
Step Two: Don't fire them
Step Three: Don't allow rat ***** lying asscrack managers to shout them down in meetings
Step Four: ???
Step Five: Profit! - Steinr, on 05/02/2008, -1/+5I know people that work at Google and I tell you I want to work there!
- Contajeerus, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3They follow the principles of User Experience Design and because of that they win.
- Rotzooi, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4There is something evil about buying the best employees you can find and having them find ways to better sell advertisements.
- DonutGuy, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3in·no·va·tion - n.
The act of introducing something new.
Google, innovation... something doesn't fit. - MtheoryX, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Did you RTFA? Particularly the second page where attrition is directly mentioned in the interview.
- zantos420, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2my stupid chinese pseudo-mao-zedong boss needs to read this ***** article
- diggerdubai, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Some negative comments - this is fine are fair everyone should say what they think, Google is now a monster of a company so it will feel the same heat as microsoft.
But let's for a minute take one concept away from this... something every tech company could benefit from...
The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people around them and their executives. [This is] a systematic way of making sure a middle manager does not eliminate that innovation. If you're the employee and I'm the manager, and I sit down and say, "Our product's late, and you screwed up, and you gotta work on this really hard," you can legally say to me, "I will give you everything I've got, 80% of [my time]."
Basically when a startup gets big they start ignoring input from the people who work there and you get middle management and project managers making decisions about changes to the site etc. These people hardly know anything about the Internet , there should be an air and culture of contributing to the company as praise if your idea is a good one. - yujie, on 05/02/2008, -1/+2I wish alot of companies follow "The No. 1 thing we do require is: You can do whatever you want as long as you track it."
- yojiffyskippy, on 05/02/2008, -2/+3These comments look like a lot of jealous and bitter diggers. Where do you guys work?
- Hattrick, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Free software creates opportunity for those who can't afford the prohibitive licensing costs associated with starting a small business. (Open Office)
Free software creates jobs for people who want to do creative integration work for companies with limited budgets. (LAMP) (RoR)
Free software helps people in developing countries work with applications and code that they would never have access to.
So "bad for the economy" IMO should read "bad for companies that think unoriginal products should never have competition." Choice is always good for the economy whether your competition is free or not. Make a better alternative and people will buy it. (MyEclipse) - cocaboo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Haven't several of Google's most innovative products been acquired, not built from within?
- trollick, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1So... other than a decent search engine and advertisement frameworks, what other great ideas where fueled there?
- TechMike, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0In the book "Free Prize Inside", Seth Godin wrote: "Almost all efforts at creating innovations within existing organizations fail. Why? The reason is simple. Innovators are too focused on what the innovation is, not how they go about implementing it. Virtually every book on innovation focuses on exciting, sexy techniques like brainstorming, creation and ideation.... I don’t care how amazing your idea is. If you can’t get it implemented, it’s worthless."
What makes Google successful is that they let smart people be really creative, and then spend time packaging those good ideas in ways "less smart" people will use them. - kenahoo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0Like what?
- TravisOwens, on 05/02/2008, -1/+0Well doing the work at Google puts food on the table and feeds a family. If by Open Source you mean free software (they usually go hand in hand), well Open Source steals the work, so nobody gets paid and it puts people out of a job and hurts the economy.
Like it or not, free software is bad for the economy. - inactive, on 05/02/2008, -5/+3How does Google fuel its Idea factory?
At the expense of open source developers. - AbhishekGoyal, on 05/02/2008, -4/+1Google has been the dream company to work for, for all techies. But in last couple of year, they saw significant attrition as well.
- izosity, on 05/02/2008, -6/+2google ideas are nothing more than smart ideas they buy or rip off other people- in fact google itself was a smart idea bought by other ppl __
_ i am a ITC coordinator and have setup conferences for GOOGLE and if you think spending over 50,000 dollars on getting a bunch of old, out of touch business people talking about World of Warcraft and Second life is a good idea u must b retarded (all they're really thinking is 'if this is profitable can we rip it off or buy it off them')
Microsoft started in similar way at they're not so pretentious
To all the the google employees out there please go drive your hybrid off a cliff - ajaypathak, on 05/02/2008, -5/+1if u have money then ideas will automatically come
http://readerszone.com - Dylson, on 05/02/2008, -11/+2This was a very interesting thing to read. Im joking, this was BORING AS *****!
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