Correlation is not causation. We don't really know what combination of the many factors in Google's culture made them so successful. For all we know, it may have been due entirely to the people they hired, and the same team might have produced great results with or without all the perks that Google is famous for.
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Interesting, sure, but most of that stuff worked amazingly well for Google back when their engineer headcount was at what Y!'s is today.
Correlation is not causation. We don't really know what combination of the many factors in Google's culture made them so successful. For all we know, it may have been due entirely to the people they hired, and the same team might have produced great results with or without all the perks that Google is famous for.
sure. but it seems to me that this woman was hired with a mandate to 'make the place more google-like' -
I'm with you; my belief is that 95% of leadership is picking the right people, but, then, I'm a bad leader.
It seems like it's worth a shot. I mean, Yahoo has tried and failed many other strategies.