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Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-not-try-this-at-home dept.

New submitter rjupstate writes "Google places a lot of value on the spontaneous creativity that can occur when two employees from completely different parts of the company meet. It's an ideal that Google has perfected over the years, but it's not something that will work for most other organizations. Executives trying to replicate Google's approach could even create major problems among their workforces."

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  1. Re:The secret of Google's success by davester666 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The exception is Apple. Every quarter, everybody is screaming at Apple, "You are dead unless you stop what you are doing and switch to doing what everybody else in the industry is doing."

    Stuff like:
    -licensing the OS
    -making a zillion models of phones
    -making netbooks!
    -making a low-cost version of every product they make for 'value consumers'

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  2. Re:The secret of Google's success by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Certainly not easy on your pockets, since the hardware they sell costs at least 3 times more than it should, just to have a fruity logo slapped on it, and the "privilege" to run a Fisher-Price OS.