At work, our goal has always been to stay up with state-of-the-art in industry. To that end, I attended a Chief HR Officer Summit with industry HR leaders last month, and I participated in the Global HR Summit in Dubai. Last year, when I learned that Google’s Chief HR Officer, Laszlo Bock, provided his insights covering the past fifteen years, I quickly purchased and read his book.
Google has grown from 6,000 employees to almost 60,000, with seventy-plus offices across more than forty countries, and Fortune has named Google the “Best Company to Work For” an unprecedented five times in the United States (incidentally, NASA was just named the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government for the fifth straight year!). While Google receives more than two million applications each year, they hire several thousand, making them twenty-five times more selective than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton!
For my HR friends, there are a number of gems here. For leaders, Bock claims his insights will “help transform how you live and lead.”
Click here to learn more about Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock.