Format:
Book
Author:
Bock, Laszlo, author.
Title:
Work rules! : insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead / Laszlo Bock.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York ; Boston : Twelve, 2015.
Description:
viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations--a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring the best and brightest succeed.
We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and with a profound grasp of human psychology, Bock also provides teaching examples from a range of industries -- including companies that are household names but hideous places to work, and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into delightfully counterintuitive principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.
Subjects:
Google (Firm) -- Management.
Google (Firm)
Leadership.
Corporate culture.
Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.
Corporate culture.
Leadership.
Management.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-396) and index.
Contents:
Preface: a guidance counselor's nightmare -- Why Google's rules will work for you -- Becoming a founder -- "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" -- Lake Wobegon, where all the new hires are above average -- Searching for the best -- Don't trust your gut -- Let the inmates run the asylum -- Why everyone hates performance management, and what we decided to do about it -- The two tails -- Building a learning institution -- Pay unfairly -- The best things in life are free (or almost free) -- Nudge a lot -- It's not all rainbows and unicorns -- What you can do starting tomorrow -- Afterword for HR geeks only: building the world's first people operations team.
LCCN:
2014020843
ISBN:
9781455554799
1455554790
* 9781478980872
* 9781478980889
Other Number:
885377927
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
91514
Call Number:
BUS 658.409 BOC
Course Reserves:
0
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