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It’s interesting that Google had a built-in mechanism to combat bad decisions called “being Googly”. Basically default mode of operation and decision making was
by vl 5y ago
It’s interesting that Google had a built-in mechanism to combat bad decisions called “being Googly”. Basically default mode of operation and decision making was to “be Googly”. So this cultural pressure created culture of collaboration and helping out. The problem is that with high growth rate and relatively high churn you can’t indoctrinate this (or really, any) culture fast enough, and so it eroded. On top of that when third wave of management new-hires doesn’t embrace it (and why would they?), it disintegrates rather quickly.
- ur-whale 5y agoIt also doesn't account for folks that are manipulative and ambitious enough to: 1. Not believe a word of the "being Googly" thing 2. Understand how big of a lever it is to get others to do things. 3. Are very good at pretending. They usually make it to the top in quick order and get a tiny bit more influence on the cultural direction taken by the giant combine harvester.