What are some challenges that Google might face in maintaining their people-centric approach?

Some challenges that Google might face in maintaining their people-centric approach could include managing individual expectations and needs, ensuring consistent communication and feedback, maintaining a balance between employee autonomy and organizational control, and adapting to changing workforce demographics and expectations. It's also important to note that as Google continues to grow and diversify, maintaining a consistent culture and approach across all its teams and locations could be a significant challenge.

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

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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