Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock
Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock
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Work Rules!
Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Author: Laszlo Bock

Narrator: Laszlo Bock

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 04/07/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work -- and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they 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, former 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 that offers lessons including:

Take away managers' power over employees Learn from your best employees-and your worst Hire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it's more fair!) Don't trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the future Default to open-be transparent and welcome feedback If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough.

Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, Work Rules! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be 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 principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands.

Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Otis on March 22, 2017

I think this is a must read for any leader in a modern business. Google has done a lot of things right both in their products and also in how they run their company and build their culture, and this is a fairly detailed account of how they've built an impressive culture, and is written by someone wh......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 11, 2015

Laszlo Bock's Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Overall, I really liked this book. I learned much and discovered even more. Multumesc mult, Laszlo! Main positives: 1. In the end, and in bits throughout the book, the reader discovers that Google uses not......more

Goodreads review by Jurgen on August 28, 2015

This should be the new gospel for HR.......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on December 14, 2021

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock is a behind the scenes glimpse into the "People Operations" of Google, the mammoth internet company. Laszlo explains Google wasn't always a global leader. It started out like every other company- with a......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 08, 2017

Did this book transform how I live and lead? No. It's nowhere near as revolutionary or life changing as its subtitle would have you believe. It has a lot of interesting ideas, made even more interesting since they're from the context of Google. I'm sure most people have heard or seen glimpses of how......more