Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From the visionary head of Googles innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. Its not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing. So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including Take away managers power over employeesLearn from your best employees-and your worstHire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find themPay unfairly its more fair!Dont trust your gut Use data to predict and shape the futureDefault to open-be transparent and welcome feedbackIf youre comfortable with the amount of freedom youve given your employees, you havent gone far enough.