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Logical people sometimes get confused about how so many workplaces can be so dysfunctional. You probably spend more time working than doing anything else in the middle part of your life, and yet most organizations have absolutely no way to make it purposeful for you. (You can insert an argument here that it’s not supposed to be purposeful, and the real deal is that you get a paycheck and that’s it, and there is some validity to that concept.)
For years, Google has been a company with a lot of noted success in the people space, which everyone runs around attributing to their market cap or margins or something — when in reality, it’s just a series of simple, people-facing concepts. Their man guy is Laszlo Bock, who’s the SVP of People (HR), and he wrote a new book. He’s been promoting it — I wrote about him in 2014, too, as an aside — and he recently spoke to UPenn. Here’s some of it:
He has a really good quote in this discussion that I think kind of summarizes everything herein:
The reason more organizations don’t do this stuff is it’s not always intuitive. It actually cuts against…
