Google: Ten Golden Rules

December 6, 2005

A brief article in Newsweek by Eric Schmidt Google CEO and Hal Varian, a Berkeley professor and consultant with Google about Google’s 10 Golden Rules.

The ongoing debate about whether big corporations are mismanaging knowledge workers is one we take very seriously, because those who don’t get it right will be gone.

Summarizing their 10 Golden Rules (read the article for details):
# Hire by committee
# Cater to their every need
# Pack them in
# Make coordination easy
# Eat your own dog food
# Encourage creativity
# Strive to reach consensus
# Don’t be evil
# Data drive decisions
# Communicate effectively

I’m not nearly smart enough or creative enough to work at Google but there’s no reason that other software companies shouldn’t try to attain to the same goals. It’s amazing what you can get out of people when you trust and reward them properly. Reminds me of a formula in Joel Spolsky’s article on Hitting the High Notes:

Best Working Conditions ? Best Programmers ? Best Software ? Profit!

It’s a pretty convenient formula, especially since our real goal in starting Fog Creek was to create a software company where we would want to work.

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