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What is Google’s Mission?
With all the talk about whether Google is the new Bell Labs (or isn’t), and the curiosity around their recent acquisition of Boston Dynamics, I thought it would be interesting to look at what Google says their mission is: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. And…
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Getting Actionable Manager Feedback
At Bazaarvoice R&D we have a peer feedback system that we use every six months. Since it’s mostly focused on individual contributors, the questions relevant to management are too few and too broad (IMHO). e.g. … Do they provide effective and timely feedback about your performance and work with you to establish and achieve your…
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How Google Sets Goals
There’s a surprising lack of public information on OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) – the goal setting and tracking philosophy used by Intel, Google and others. This past month Google Ventures Startup Lab released a great presentation video by Rick Klau on how Google does goal setting and tracking: “How Google sets goals: OKRs” Some takeaways:…
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Google’s Project Oxygen
Today slate had an excellent article on Google’s management: The Happiness Machine: How Google became such a great place to work. One thing they mention is Project Oxygen, a data-analytics based approach to examining the management factors that improve performance. As part of the project they ranked the factors (behaviors): Lots of good stuff in…
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On Monetizing Intent
90%+ of Google’s Revenue comes from monetizing intent. What does that mean? It means that google is best positioned to know what you are looking for *right now*. Because you start your search with them. So they sell you and your current intentions to advertisers. There is huge $ in knowing the intent of consumers. …
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