Google Management Emulates Microsoft
January 4, 2011
Quite a surprise for the old goose. I read “Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units” and chuckled. The consultants advising Microsoft and the Math Club leaders have come up with a new organizational scheme: Microsoft’s approach. Here’s the key passage in my opinion:
Not everyone gets to be an autonomous unit, but those who do have the freedom to run like independent startups with almost no approvals needed from HQ, according to our sources. For these divisions, Google is essentially a holding company that provides back end services like legal, providing office space and organizing travel, but everything else is up to the pseudo-startup.
In 2011, let the games begin.
Stephen E Arnold, Janauary 4, 2011
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