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  • Insights From Inside GoogleThat Will Transform How You Live and Lead
  • By: Laszlo Bock
  • Narrated by: Laszlo Bock
  • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (96 ratings)

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Laszlo Bock, Head of Goggle’s People Operations and both author and narrator of his brilliant debut audiobook, Work Rules, explains how to keep on top of a changing business world. Hear this incredible businessman explain that the key to a thriving business lies in the people you hire. Taking Google as a case study, Bock details a thorough guide for employers in how to draw the best people to your business. He enlightens you to the importance of shaping a successful career for your employees and that keeping them satisfied with their work is essential to the success of your business. Available now from Audible.

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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.

Google receives more than 1,500,000 unique applications for jobs every year. This book shows you why.

  • How to learn from your best employees - and your worst
  • Why you should hire only people who are smarter than you are
  • Take away managers' powers over employees
  • And why not to trust your gut instinct?

"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. 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. A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live,

Work Rules! offers both a new philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent and ensuring that the brightest and best prosper. Your workplace and how you treat your employees have huge effects on your success.

In twelve vivid chapters, Bock lays out a series of surprising lessons from a range of industries - from household names to little-known innovators. 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. 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.

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. Listen to it to build a better company from within rather than from above; listen to it to reawaken your joy in what you do. The way we work is changing - are you?

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2015 Laszlo Bock (P)2015 Hachette Audio

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excellent

very useful guide and made very relevant to every organisation, not just huge conglomerates. gives excellent insights into what motivates top performers

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Great read!

Very interesting read. It gives various example to use even if you are not at HR.

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This book makes work rule!

I work in HR and found this book as a good resource to add to the toolkit. Must read if in HR!

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Every person who can influence HR in their organisation should read this

Laszlo has done a wonderful job of sharing the practices that have made Google a fantastic place to work and a better organisation because of it. He highlights that it is not the perks that make google a great place to work but the emotional intelligence, use of data, opportunity and transparency afforded to their staff that makes the difference. This book is helpful not just for HR but also for managers at eliciting better feedback and making people feel more valued in an organisation.

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Awe inspiring.

Put together like a jigsaw puzzle. All makes sense but yet so hard for most to attain. It embodies the self actualisation of hr.

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Great book. Really resonated with me.

Great engaging book read well. I work for a fortune 500 and gave me some insight to the quirky things our global HR team get up to. Saw the value in what they did at Google. How fortune 500's try to clone it, but fail in the execution and the essence of what they did at google.

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Inspiring!

A must read for every manager or anyone who would like to make a difference to their workplace.

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