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A startup can use the key topics or management framework covered in Work Rules! to grow by implementing Google's approach to management. This includes being skeptical of traditional power structures and encouraging employees to create their own hierarchies and yield to authority. By fostering an environment where employees feel empowered and are encouraged to take initiative, startups can foster innovation and growth. Additionally, startups can learn from Google's strategy of balancing managerial power and employee autonomy, which can lead to increased productivity and job satisfaction.
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Google is open about its deep skepticism of management. Not managers per se, but it is "profoundly suspicious of power, and the way managers have historically abused it. Google has found the sweet spot between every manager's susceptibility to the conveniences and small thrills of power and employees' inherent conditioning to create their own hierarchies, yield to authority or defer to a superior.
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Laszlo Bock, Google’s innovative Senior Vice President of People Operations, offers his best answers to these puzzling questions in his book Work Rule...
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