Friday, December 17, 2010

Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units

There's a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an�acquisition. Oh, we're not going to change anything! We're just going to give you more resources to do what you've been doing even better! Yeah! They bought us for a reason, why would they ruin things? It usually works for a little while, but big company�bureaucracy-- whether it's HR, politics or just endless meetings-- almost always creeps in. It's a law of nature: Big companies just need certain processes to run and entrepreneurs hate those processes because they stifle nimble innovation. Google has a new policy to fight it, according to several sources close to the company. A memo was reportedly sent out a few weeks ago to certain Google business and country heads talking about a new policy of "autonomous units" within the company. It's being referred to in parts of the company as the "NYT effect," a reference to this New York Times article that criticized how bloated and bureaucratic Google had become, citing it as a big reason Google was losing employees to smaller companies.

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