How Google Works, Eric Schmidt
How Google Works, Eric Schmidt
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How Google Works

Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

Narrator: Holter Graham, Jonathan Rosenberg

Unabridged: 9 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2014


Synopsis

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted "smart creatives."

Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.

In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that.

About Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, Google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Otis on December 14, 2016

A decent book about Google from it's former CEO and head of product. I am only giving it 3 stars because a lot of it was too vague to be useful or stuff I already knew. However every 5 or 10 pages there was a nugget, or reminder of something I knew but that was good to think about. Also good to see......more

Goodreads review by Ramalingam on September 28, 2014

Don't waste your time, Go now, read this book twice - first time will be Aha! and the second time you will be underlining and thinking / assimilating. Give a copy to each of your direct reports irrespective of your industry, if they don't do so like-wise, fire them - there is no need to work with th......more

Goodreads review by Arun on January 23, 2015

There is no one across the globe who does not use this site…Wait ! Strike that out ! Let me rephrase this as : The search engine of Google and its associated products and services are used by a wide variety of people across the globe barring mainland China. The topic of Google in China is now a majo......more

Goodreads review by Shaw on November 09, 2014

There is enough here to keep management teams in all departments busy for a long time. There is also a lot of flattering stories about how great Google is. Get past that and there is a lot of gold.......more

Goodreads review by Rob on October 27, 2014

Overall disappointed with the book. Here's a summary... We're Google...We're awesome. You are not worthy of us. It seems the best lesson you can take with this is: 1) Start a company with 2 brilliant co-founders who get along well with others 2) Be in a ridiculously growing industry The book it reminde......more


Quotes

"An informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman's perspective."—Kirkus

"An energized and exciting primer on creating a company and workforce prepared to meet an inspiring future."—Publisher's Weekly

"Chairman Eric Schmidt and exec advisor Jonathan Rosenberg pull back the curtain to reveal how the company created its unique culture of workplace innovation."—Fortune