Laszlo Bock quotes

“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 Bock

Source : "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.

#Teamwork Quotes #Care Quotes #Steps Quotes

“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.”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Teamwork Quotes #Humility Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Organization Quotes #Culture Quotes #Want Quotes

“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”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Data Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“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?”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Inspiration Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.”
-- Laszlo Bock

Source : Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK

#Opportunity Quotes #Focus Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Crazy Quotes #Goal Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“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.”
-- Laszlo Bock

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“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 Bock

Source : "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

#Test Scores Quotes #Tests Quotes #Criteria Quotes

“Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.”

“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”

“People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.”

“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”

“You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

“Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.”

“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”

“I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.”

“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.”

“You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.