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Category Archives: Google
Innovate or “Play it Safe” to Avoid Risk
The Xooglers blog has some really interesting posts. In one, “But, but, that’s just crazy talk!” [the broken link was removed], Doug Edwards discusses a great example of what true leadership is about. In my defense, my background conspired against … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Google, Innovation, Management, quote
Tagged decision making, Innovation, leadership, management, risk
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Data Based Decision Making
Acumen visits Google: As a first step, we hope to collaborate with interested Googlers to find better ways to learn what works around the world. Identifying powerful solutions to poverty that are useful to people in different settings, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Google, Management
Tagged critical thinking, Data, evidence based management, Google
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Google: Ten Golden Rules
Google: Ten Golden Rules [the broken link was removed] by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian: At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of “knowledge workers.” After all, Drucker invented the term … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, Management
Tagged Drucker, Google, Innovation, knowledge work
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Google: Experiment Quickly and Often
Google Thinks Small by Quentin Hardy, Forbes: Brin and Page have created a corporate organism that tackles most big projects in small, tightly focused teams, setting them up in an instant and breaking them down weeks later without remorse. “Their … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Google, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development
Tagged experiments, Google, iteration
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Googlebombing
The Google blog has a new post on: Googlebombing ‘failure’ Basically they explain that Google is not making a judgment that the result top results for “failure” represent Google’s opinion of who is a failure. The top result is the … Continue reading
Google Talk
Google is at it again. They have announce Google Talk [the broken link was removed]: Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google’s innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Management
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Google: Good Service not Arbitrage
My comments on: Seth on Arbitrage from John Battelle’s Searchblog Thanks for the great blog. I have to disagree with this post however. First, I think Google chooses not to disclose more to investors mainly because the founders don’t go … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Google, Management
Tagged Google
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Google and Acquiring Tiny Companies
I like Google and enjoy reading about the company. Even so I find the number of articles about the minor moves they make strange. At some point this fascination with the minor moves Google makes will stop but for now … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Investing, Management
Tagged Google, Innovation, Investing, Paul Graham
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Web Search Improvements
Topic: Internet – Search Improvement I have been waiting for Google to provide a way around an obvious problem with their search results for a long time. They choose to provide results that do not display matching content when you … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Google
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Google Photo Management Software – Picasa
Topics: Freeware – Photos I am a big fan of Google, the search engine, and the company. Google bought Picasa, digital photo management software, a few months ago and decided to give the software away as freeware. I just got … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Travel photos
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