Google's management style
- 4. 336 Pooja Makwana 337 Jay Marvania 338 Harsh Mehta 339 Disha Nagar 340 Priyank Panchal 341 Saloni Parekh 342 Hiral Parpani 343 Jiten Patadia Group Members
- 5. Google’s Vision Mission and Focus
- 6. • The Vision To make search engines so powerful they would understand "everything in the world". • The Mission To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. • The Focus Google continues to focus on innovation and on the user experience. Google’s Vision Mission And Focus
- 7. Google tries to overcome its Weaknesses
- 8. Google tries to overcome its Weaknesses Positives • Focuses on Innovation • Encourages to dream up pet projects • Every idea is given attention Negatives • Most projects suffered losses • Slower growth made employees explore new ventures (Twitter) Changes • Focus on bit discipline in innovation • Create innovation reviews Lessons learnt • Constraints are not innovation inhibitors. • Right constraints at the right place may accelerate innovation.
- 10. Google’s Management Functions • Employees set and evaluate their own goals • For Google, Managers are Supervisors • For Employees, Managers are Leaders Effects • Freedom in doing the assigned work their own way • Google says, Employees must “Think out Loud” • Corporate transparency Benefits • Controlling through shared vision • Open policies translate into distinctive corporate structure • Cross-functional leadership structure
- 11. Leadership and Organizational Structure
- 12. Leadership and Organizational Structure Regular Leadership Structure Unique Leadership Positions The 70/20/10 Rule
- 13. Lessons from Google’s Management Style
- 14. Lessons from Google’s Management Style Formal Education not a priority • Consistent and Fair • Element of Predictability • No correlation most of the times • Yet a knowledge economy Engineering Driven • Look at the data, crunch it and then think • Guide the decisions as per the data Good Manager Identification
- 15. Eric Schmidt’s Best Leadership Practices
- 16. Eric Schmidt’s Best Leadership Practices Get to know your employees Create new ways to promote employees Allow employees to work outside the company hierarchy Let employees own the problems you want them to solve Review employees performance by someone they respect. Eric Schmidt as the CEO of Google Inc.
- 17. 8 Habits of Highly Effective Google Managers
- 18. 8 Habits of Highly Effective Google Managers Be a Good Coach Empower your team and don’t micro-manage Express interest in employee’s success and well-being Be Productive and Result oriented Be a Good Communicator and Listen to you Team Help your employees with career development Have a clear vision and strategy for the team Have key technical skills so you can help advise the team • Project Oxygen started in 2009…devise something important for the future of Google Inc.…Build better bosses • Technical expertise ranks last the notional idea of better the knowledge better the manager proved to be wrong…employees valued that the least • Connection and accessibility employees valued managers who had a better connection….along with being accessible whenever needed • Ranked by importance the 8 traits that the google finally ended up after a lot of research…ranked as per importance…teaches how to be a great manager • Basic assumptions of the project reasons why employees leave…managers have a great impact on employee performance • What works at Google wanted own data…training programs…personal review sessions…significant improvement
- 19. What makes Google special ?
- 20. What makes Google special ? • Culture the unofficial motto “Don’t be Evil”…does not exploit the users…plans and projects are user oriented • Employee Perks “you can be serious without a suit” drives the environment…Google says “we strip away everything that gets in our employees’ way”…great sense of the principle of staffing • Facilities to the Employees the employees have access to a variety of facilities like…free hair cut…gym and swimming pool…games…laundry…health care…subsidized massage…day care for children • Transportation the employees can run around the Googleplex on scooters or bicycles…there is a free bus service for the employees • Food has canteens serving different cuisines as per the tastes of employees…free of charge…the 100ft rule