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How Google's Novel Management System Aids Growth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sprouting-like-weeds dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Gary Hamel, visiting professor at London Business School, argues in a Wall Street Journal commentary that Google's 'novel management system seems to have been designed to guard against the risk factors that so often erode an organization's evolutionary potential.' Among Google's advantages: The 20% rule, an 'expansive sense of purpose' and the credo, 'keep the bozos out and reward people who make a difference.' Hamel also traces the company's evolution from Google 1.0, 'a search engine that crawled the Web but generated little revenue,' to Google 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base. More than likely, 6.0 is around the corner.'"

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  1. Novell? by Zen · · Score: 1, Funny

    Was anybody else besides me wondering why Google was using a Novell system when they read the headline?

    1. Re:Novell? by onedotzero · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, no. I was wondering what on earth Google and Novell had to do with Aids growth...

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  2. Wrong versioning scheme by Volante3192 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Google Beta 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base. More than likely, Beta 6.0 is around the corner.

    Fixed.

  3. Whooops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I read that article title and did that "automatic brain" thing where you only read key words.

    The article title came out "Google's management (has) AIDS"

    Oops.

  4. And in 2016, Google becomes self aware..... by rts008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It is driven by an open-ended mission to organize the world's knowledge..."
    and:
    "Google seems to have grasped the new century's most important business lesson: The capacity to evolve is the most important advantage of all."

    My bet is on Google to solce the problems of a working A.I., maybe by accident, maybe by design.

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  5. torrent of new Web-based services by x2A · · Score: 1, Funny

    "an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services"

    Anyone got a link to this torrent?

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  6. Novel Management... by smbarbour · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leave it to Google to come up with a better design than "alphabetically, by author, then title"

    (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

  7. Re:God I hope it lasts... by somersault · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've obviously don't sit at their desk for long enough each day ;)

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