We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing. So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and with a profound grasp of human psychology, Bock also provides teaching examples from a range of industries--including companies that are household names but hideous places to work, and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock 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, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into delightfully counterintuitive principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands.

 

*Cleaving the knot of conventional management, some lessons from WORK RULES! include:

 

*Take away managers' power over employees *Learn from your best employees--and your worst

 

*Only hire people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them

 

*Pay unfairly (it's more fair!) *Don't trust your gut: use data to predict and shape the future

 

*Default to open: be transparent, and welcome feedback

 

*If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough

 

來自Google內部的人資觀點，

完整詮釋Google的人才觀和經營哲學。

現任Google人資長親自解密，

完全公開Google常保豐沛創新動能的活水源頭。

 

Google超級用人學，

翻轉工作和生活的定義，

樹立管理思維的新典範。

讓你成為到哪都搶手的人才，

幫助你打造人才搶著進來的企業、部門和團隊！

 

說起Google這家公司，

當年，布林和佩吉想以75萬美元出售，還乏人問津；

如今，它的市值超過3,000億美元，甚至比全球許多國家的GDP還高。

當年，它的搜尋引擎在群雄爭霸的市場苦拚利基；

如今，它的事業版圖涵蓋七項關鍵產業，

可以說，現在大部分地表上的人類，

生活很難完全不與Google產品沾上邊。

 

Google如何從一家小公司成長為今日的全球明星企業，關鍵就在自稱「Google人」（Googler）的員工。「進哈佛難，進Google更難！」Google的工作是全球最熱門的職缺： Google每年收到至少兩百萬份履歷，錄取率低到甚至只有常春藤名校的1/25。Google人需要什麼條件？要具備怎樣的能力和特質？Google又是怎麼樣的公司？Google的召募流程有何獨到之處，才能挖掘到出色的員工？Google的經營團隊又有什麼秘訣，能讓這群才華洋溢的人視工作為人生樂事？

 

這些問題，終於等到Google現任人資長拉茲洛‧博克親自解答了！

　
Google人是Google的靈魂，也是名副其實在Google當家作主的人。在Google，管理工作是一連串熱血的實驗與創新，目標只有一個：打造有使命、重自由、講創意的工作環境，讓每個精挑細選而來的Google人發光發熱。Google發現，只要打造講究自由、創意與樂趣的工作環境，就能網羅，培育、留住頂尖人才。

 

拉茲洛‧博克以本書完整詮釋Google的人才觀和經營哲學，公開Google常保豐沛創新動能的源頭。或許不是每家公司都能提供員工免費午餐，但是Google之所以為Google，它經營人才的成功祕訣，絕對可以複製，甚至做得比Google更好！

——中文簡介摘自天下文化出版《Google超級用人學》