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> At Google in 2001, frustrated with a lack of progress, Larry Page fired all the managers in the entire company. on one day. with no warning. Did this really
by x87678r 6y ago
> At Google in 2001, frustrated with a lack of progress, Larry Page fired all the managers in the entire company. on one day. with no warning.
Did this really happen? I hadn't heard of it before.
- EamonnMR 6y agoAccording to this article all of the Project Managers where fired: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/google_s_larry_page_the_co_founder_s_untold_story.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/googl...
- x87678r 6y agoThanks, that is a good link. Reading on it seems they weren't fired after all.
- programbreeding 6y agoThat article (and others) say it's because "Google hired only the most talented engineers, he thought that extra layer of supervision was not just unnecessary but also an impediment. He also suspected that Google’s project managers were steering engineers away from working on projects that were personally important to him. For example, Page had outlined a plan to scan all the world’s books and make them searchable online, but somehow no one was working on it. Page blamed the project managers."
- TheKarateKid 6y agoSadly, it sounds like the exact same thing needs to happen at Google again. History is repeating itself.
- mmm_grayons 6y agoWow, what an awful manager. That's the business equivalent of flipping over the gameboard because one is losing.