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2 min read
Published: Nov 19, 2018
Words: 355|Page: 1|2 min read
Published: Nov 19, 2018
Traditionally, businesses are built to focus on “creating shareholder value” based on a “culture of accountability”. In such organizations, problem-solving can end up focusing primarily on people rather than on problems. In the book, How Google Works, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg, describe how, in 2002 before Google’s IPO, Larry Page walked into the office kitchen and posted some printouts of results from Google’s AdWords engine. On top, in big bold letters, he wrote, “THESE ADS SUCK.”
Rather than be an arrogant executive publicly humiliating his hapless employees it turned out to be a show of confidence, defining a tough problem that he knew his talented engineers would want to solve. By next day, a group of engineers shared a solution that not only resolved the AdWords problem but helped transform Google into the major money machine that it is today.
Greg Satell writes in his Harvard Business Review column on Organizational Culture (Satell, G. 2014), that Google, basically, built a culture that attacks problems — not people. Greg goes on to outline the four principles below that derive from the premise that culture defines an organization and how it plays a critical role in its success:
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