performance ratings and Googlegeist results.

Bureaucracy Busters, a now-annual program where Googlers identify their biggest frustrations and help fix them.

If you believe people are fundamentally good, and if your organization is able to hire well, there is nothing to fear from giving your people freedom.

list specific projects, their roles, and what they accomplished. We limited Googlers to 512 characters to describe what they did

If you believe people are good, you must be unafraid to share information with them

decisions should be made at the lowest possible level of an organization.

We deliberately take power and authority over employees away from managers.

They distribute their reports and then lead a discussion about how to improve their performance, getting advice from their teams.

only when companies took steps to give their people more freedom did performance improve.