Google’s non-freedom culture: our article in WSJ
Here is with some delay the article we published in the Wall Street Journal on the coming out of 20% time as a perk–not an aspect of the freedom-based culture in Google. How an Endangered Google Policy Got Results By BRIAN M. CARNEY and ISAAC GETZ Published...
Ricardo Semler on the door which open opens only for you
Ricardo Semler is one of the best thinkers among the leaders who built a freedom-based organization. In this 6′ video he takes Kafka’s parables to deliver a powerful message to every leader and every man and...
Our WSJ Op-Ed on why Google’s culture is NOT a freedom-of-initiative one
Why Google’s 20% time was a perk and not a part of the freedom-of-initiative culture By BRIAN M. CARNEY and ISAAC GETZ Recent reports indicate that Google has been effectively zeroing out employees’ “20% time”—the policy of letting Googlers...
Indulging employees is no substitute for engaging them
“Leaders will buy miserable employees latte machines for their offices, give them free lunch and sodas, or even worse — just let them all work at home, hailing an ‘enlightened’ policy of telecommuting. Hell, some of these practices might...
The True Cost of a Bad Boss and What to Do about It
Bad managers’ plot ? We wrote about the tremendous costs of stress to organizations. It’s also known that one of the key stressors for employees consists in conflictual relations with their manager. Below is a nice, less than 2 minutes video...Follow Freedominc
