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> only simple messages like 'make a profit' get through on average. That was always the power of 'Don't be evil'. It gave employees official permission, perhap
by Angostura 8y ago
> only simple messages like 'make a profit' get through on average.
That was always the power of 'Don't be evil'. It gave employees official permission, perhaps even requirement to challenge decisions that could at least be thought of as being evil in some way.
It was a shame it was deprecated.
- itronitron 8y agoa colleague of mine pointed out many years ago that the slogan is not in fact 'Do be good' but rather just 'don't be evil'.
- tim333 8y agoBe good is much more grey - all actions probably have some good but are not perfectly good. Whereas evil stuff is hopefully unusual.
- kibwen 8y agoThere's the fallacy, then: there's no law that says that evil actions are inherently notable or eyebrow-raising. It's perfectly possible, and indeed common, to do evil by doing nothing at all.
- QuercusMax 8y agoIt's still there in the Code of Conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ Scroll all the way to the bottom. It's the closing thought, one of the key places to emphasize something.