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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Google is a principle-powered business. It has a now-famous set of corporate principles. 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. 2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well. 3. Fast is better than slow. 4. Democracy on the Web works. 5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer. 6. You can make money without doing evil. 7. The
... See moreUmair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
Google was a company built on the values of its founders, who harbored ambitions to build a powerful corporation that would impact the entire world, at the same time loathing the bureaucracy and commitments that running such a company would entail.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
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When you learn more about the company, though, it gets even cooler. I talked about agile software development—Graze has an agile factory. At our Subscribed conference in London, Graze’s CEO, Anthony Fletcher, pulled out his phone and said: “I can run my factory from my phone: the supplies, the distributors, the packaging. Every box that I ship is i
... See moreTien Tzuo • Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It
But, my hopes for web computing always felt limited by both the inertia of what Chrome already was (it’s hard to move the cheese on people), and by Google itself. A company that once oozed innovation now stood in its way. At some point, so much of our focus became navigating a sea of reasons not to innovate, for fear of causing users to see fewer a... See more
The Browser Company • What Comes After Chrome
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Here’s a great Google story I heard from Mark Hurst: It turns out that the folks at Google are obsessed with the email they get criticizing the service. They take it very seriously. One person writes in every once in a while, and he never signs his name. According to Marissa Meyer at Google, “Every time he writes, the e-mail contains only a two-dig
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