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Work Rules

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What this book knows

Google's SVP of People Operations argues that treating employees as trusted adults—not resources—unlocks performance through data, freedom, and structural fairness.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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work-as-meaning

Either you believe people are good and you welcome their input, or you don't. Many of our people practices originate with our employees.
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One of my hopes is that anyone reading this starts thinking of themselves as a founder—of a team, a family, a culture.
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Letting managers make hiring decisions gives them too much power over the people on their teams. We actually work to minimize managers' power.
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We wouldn't have to change who they were. We could just change how they behave—through a system of reinforcing signals to improve management quality.
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mind-and-cognition

Far better to bust the myths once and for all with facts, and then make those facts freely available to anyone.
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A Gaussian model misses phenomena like the Japan earthquake or Bill Gates's net worth; human performance is better described by a power law distribution.
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Illuminates

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