How Google Works - Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

How Google Works

By Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

  • Release Date: 2014-09-23
  • Genre: Management & Leadership
Score: 4
4
From 109 Ratings

Description

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted "smart creatives."

Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.

In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that.

Reviews

  • Save yourself $100k and skip an MBA, buy this book instead

    5
    By Drew123ski456
    Great book covering all aspects of business
  • Great

    5
    By shawnmccr
    This book is amazing I like it vary much it reminds me of google.com haha but serious it’s pretty interesting
  • Mr

    5
    By DertRhodes
    This was a fascinating book with amazing insight into the world of Google. I appreciate the authors grasp of how business and employment is changing in our digital age.
  • #smartcreatives, #moonshots and the Google Revolution

    5
    By marvinchow
    I'm a 4 year Googler and people ask me all the time what it's like to work here. It's been so hard to explain the culture, insight and magic that makes Google... GOOGLE, but Eric and JR's new book, "How Google Works" captures it perfectly. It's not only HOW we do things but WHY we make certain decisions, WHO the types of people we hire are and what technology shifts are leading the next evolution of Google's future. I'm clearly biased but as someone who as previously worked at Nike, Nickelodeon and a couple of startups, Google is truly a unique and magical place. Whether you're a senior executive leading your organization into the future or a college grad preparing for a career in the 21st century, How Google Works is a fun and insightful read.