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Human Resources Manager

Laszlo Bock is a renowned human resources manager, born in 1972. During his tenure as the Chief People Officer at Google, he had a profound impact on the company's hiring and talent management practices.

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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?”

Problem Care Steps Team Members Appropriate Teamwork Team Building Appropriate Time

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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.”

Trying Ideas Ends Feelings Problem Together Goal Responsibility Steps Pieces Humility Embrace Solve Teamwork Ownership Sense Of Responsibility

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

Want Culture Inspiring 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”

People Giving Facts Bigs Causes Decision Perfect Behavior Intuition Data Decision Making Application Not Perfect

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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?”

Thinking Want Needs Humans Ends Inspiration Decision Creativity Judgment Asking Intuition Right Thing The End Of The Day Decision Making Asking Questions Inspiration And Creativity

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

Purpose Opportunity Process Focus Employee Manipulate Insidious Sly

Book:Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Source: Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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

Ifs Enough Goal Crazy Achievement Ambitious

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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.”

Found Tests Score Worthless Criteria Hiring Test Scores

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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.”

People Thinking Reality Challenges Cases Instinct Driven Guts Gut Instinct

Author:Laszlo Bock

About the Author

Born: 1972
Known for: Human Resources Manager
Quotes: 9

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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and LeadRelated source material

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