They’re often divided by tensions, if not outright dissension, and dysfunctional teams drain employees’ energy, enthusiasm, and creativity. And yet the teams most people find themselves in are nowhere near as effective as they could be. In today’s average company, up to eighty percent of employees’ days are now spent working in teams. The New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In deliver a breakthrough, groundbreaking guide for building today’s most collaborative teams-so any organization can operate at peak performance.Ī massive shift is taking place in the business world. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above read it to reawaken your joy in what you do. 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. 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. 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. In twelve vivid chapters, Bock lays out a series of surprising lessons from a range of industries - from household names to little-known innovators. Your workplace and how you treat your employees has a huge effect on your success. 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. A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, 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. 'We spend more time working than doing anything else in life.

And why not to trust your gut instinct?.Take away managers' powers over employees.Why you should hire only people who are smarter than you are.How to learn from your best employees - and your worst.Google receives more than 1,500,000 unique applications for jobs every year. From the brilliant and innovative head of Google's people operations, the ultimate guide to attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and how to ensure the best and the brightest succeed.

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