Laszlo Bock quotes
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“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?”
-- Laszlo BockSource : "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.
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“It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.”
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“We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.”
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“One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior”
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“I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?”
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“The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.”
-- Laszlo BockSource : Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK
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“If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.”
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“Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.”
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“G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.”
-- Laszlo BockSource : "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.
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“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”
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“People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.”
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
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“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”
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“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.”
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Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.
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