How Google's Novel Management System Aids Growth

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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Wrong versioning scheme

[Volante3192]

...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.

And in 2016, Google becomes self aware.....

[rts008]

"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.