![]() Writing “Work Rules!” in a 16-week blitz during the final quarter of 2013, Bock drew on his nine years at Google and previous executive roles at General Electric and McKinsey & Company. The 42-year-old Los Altos resident also had research data, experience and the intangible touch - artistic sensibilities that transform algorithms, charts, metrics, black-and-white photos and personal workplace stories into an engaging mosaic with solid business leadership underpinnings. “This is my day job, so I had a lot of theory in my head,” Bock says. ![]() It’s Google, separated into irregularly shaped but perfectly interlocking pieces. The head of “people operations” at Google (what most companies call human resources) departs from the company’s usual “we speak” to craft a first-person narrative that promises to “transform how you live and lead.” Offering 10 “work rules” in a 14-chapter management manifesto aimed at defining meaningful work, the handbook reads like a puzzle in reverse. ![]() MOUNTAIN VIEW - Unrolling the geist of Google - the inner spirit of the 50,000-employee, high-tech global company - Laszlo Bock tells all in a list-centric book, “Work Rules!” (Twelve, $30, 416 pages). ![]()
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