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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Google receives over 1,500,000 unique applications for jobs every year. This book shows you why. * How to learn from your best employees – and your worst * Why you should only hire people who are smarter than you are * Take away managers` powers over employees * And why not to trust your gut instinct `We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It`s not right that the experience should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.` So says Laszlo Bock, visionary head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge: this insight is the heart of his brilliant first book. A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Work Rules! offers both a new philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent and ensuring the brightest and best prosper. Your workplace and how you treat your employees has a huge effect on your success. In twelve vivid chapters, Bock lays out a series of surprising lessons from a range of industries – from household names to little-known innovators.He also takes us inside one of history`s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world. His years of experience are distilled into a series of entertaining principles that are easy to put into action, whether you`re a team of one or a team of thousands. Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do. The way we work is changing – are you?