The most important thing when building your company is that you encourage individual initiative: it might be via 20% or via some other ways. It is only reasonab

The most important thing when building your company is that you encourage individual initiative: it might be via 20% or via some other ways. It is only reasonable to have 20% in certain situations. In short, focus on the reason why google had this: to encourage the initiative. In many corporations showing initiative (inventing things, doing more that required, etc.) is a career ending move.