Giving employees more freedom and empowerment in their roles can have several benefits. It can lead to increased job satisfaction, as employees feel valued and trusted. This can in turn lead to increased productivity, as employees are motivated to do their best work. It can also foster innovation, as employees are given the freedom to think creatively and come up with new ideas. Furthermore, it can help attract and retain top talent, as many individuals are attracted to workplaces that offer a high degree of autonomy.

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All that's needed to replicate Google's people success in your own workplace is the belief that people are fundamentally good, and a commitment to create a culture of "high-freedom," which values liberty, authority and ownership. "If you believe people are good, they should be free," Bock says. This belief will profoundly impact how you treat employees, the freedom and empowerment you give them in the business and the resulting happiness they will feel about their work. Everyone wants to feel like what they do matters, so help your employees see the meaning in their work. Show them how it contributes to a greater good or benefits others. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google knows it will never achieve its aspirational mission because there will always be more information to organize and more ways to make it useful. That is what inspires Googlers to constantly innovate and push beyond anything they can imagine rig...

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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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