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Google's approach to people management is fundamentally rooted in the belief that people are good and can be trusted. This belief has enabled Google to design a workplace where employees feel free, fulfilled, happy, and able to efficiently manage both their personal and work lives. This approach is different from many other tech giants that may rely on more traditional or hierarchical management structures. However, a direct comparison would require specific information about the people management strategies of other tech companies.
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Work Rules! is a detailed playbook for leaders who strive to emulate Google's people success in their own teams and organizations. This manifesto of simple truths offers transformative guidance to leaders who want to improve teams from the inside out instead of top down. That will not happen by institutionalizing some complex quality or productivity improvement methodology such as Six Sigma or Total Quality Management. This is about human beings and how we treat one another. Everything that has made Google wildly successful in the past 22 years is rooted in the fundamental belief that people are good and can be trusted. This is what has enabled Google to design a workplace where Googlers feel free, fulfilled, happy and able to efficiently manage both their personal and work lives. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
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