Google: Ten Golden Rules – Issues 2006 – MSNBC.com
Google’s take on ensuring ‘knowledge workers’ are at their most creative/productive.
Interesting snippet:
Make coordination easy. Because all members of a team are within a few feet of one another, it is relatively easy to coordinate projects. In addition to physical proximity, each Googler e-mails a snippet once a week to his work group describing what he has done in the last week. This gives everyone an easy way to track what everyone else is up to, making it much easier to monitor progress and synchronize work flow.
Email? wtf? Why are they not using a blog? Still, the technique and idea is spot on.
Proximity is starting to become a problem for many companies, particularly those with globally dispersed teams…nuanced, long phone calls even more important (or perhaps shared experiences, like online gaming?)
UPDATE: forgot about the best one – the spend 20% of your time on your own projects rule.