Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers

Hugh Pickens writes "For much of its 13-year history, Google has taken a pretty simple approach to management: Leave people alone but if employees become stuck, they should ask their bosses, whose deep technical expertise propelled them into management in the first place. Now the Economic Times reports that statisticians at Google looking for characteristics that define good managers have gathered more than 10,000 observations about managers — across more than 100 variables, from various performance reviews, feedback surveys and other reports and found that technical expertise ranks dead last among Google's eight most important characteristics of good managers. What Google employees value most are even-keeled bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings, who helped people puzzle through problems by asking questions, not dictating answers, and who took an interest in employees' lives and careers."

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Thank goodness, I don't work at Google

[leetz4]

I once did read a horror ,a href=http://tinyurl.com/63avlna>story about one Google employee and his boss, and what that poor worker went through.

Thats is awfull.

[leetz5]

I worked with a dumbass manager many times, and I know friends that do (That happens like in 90% of cases). Just look at this blog entry A poor guy was fired because of irresponsible demands of his boss. 'nuff said...