Lessons from Google & Executive Training
Lessons from Google:
‘Never settle for the best’ is the motto that explains Google’s success. In elaborating on its philosophy, Google shares 10 things that it has found to be true:
http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
In January, Fortune magazine named Google No 1 on its list of the Best Companies to Work for in the United States of America. The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed, tells the story behind the company’s success. Blogger Vaughn Dickson summarieses 14 learning points from the book:
http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2006/09/16/14_things_you_can_learn_from_the_google
NIH (Not Invented here): When founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google in 1998, they tried to sell the product to many people. They wanted to earn $1 million and finish their PhD’s. One of the potential buyers was Altavista, the search engine that belonged to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). However, DEC’s engineers believed that whatever was NIH would not work for the company. They refused to buy Google. Later DEC was merged with Compaq, which now is HP.
When the founders recruited CEO Eric Schmidt, one of the reasons they selected him was because he had failed before. As an executive at Sun Microsystems, he had lost a product battle with Microsoft. They like the idea of fighting the giant. They bought Eric’s “mistake” experience.
The three executives maximise each other’s strengths.
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