![]() ![]() You can also f ollow us on Twitter and and listen for Hidden Brain stories every week on your local public radio station. I find Laszlo Bock's book a little too HR-nerdy :) Recommended with some reservations. Eric Schmidt also talks about hiring, transparency, setting goals, and so on. To subscribe to our newsletter, click here. Overall I found Eric Schmidt's How Google Works to be a better and more relevant book if you are interested in general management and how to build a high-performance culture. Special thanks this week to Daniel Shuhkin. The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak. How's it working out? This week, Shankar talks with Google's Senior Vice President of People Operations (Google-speak for Human Resources) Laszlo Bock about how one of the world's biggest tech companies recruits, trains, and keeps its talent. That means taking power away from managers, making each employee a shareholder, and giving everyone direct access to Google's top executives. Using any set of assessment criteria, Laszlo Bock of Google has been in the vanguard in creating revolutionary change in the profession of HR to the point where he has earned the title of HR professional of the decade. So, Google tries to give each of their 62,000 employees as much autonomy and ownership of the work they do as possible. A Case Study Compilation of the Amazing HR Practices That Make Google the Benchmark to Learn From. Google's philosophy about building a successful workforce is based on a simple assumption: people are fundamentally good. Laszlo Bock shares a few of the company's secrets. Google is famous for its hiring practices and work environment. ![]()
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