It is my firm belief that the only way Google can get away with a strategy like this is their hiring practice. They are apparently ferociously stringent on hiring very smart people. Even the non- technical need to be well above-average intelligence.
When you have that huge pool of high caliber of people able to work on what they want, its just a matter of time before diamonds start getting sifted from the rough. Gmail anyone? On Apr 12, 6:10 pm, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > Came across a section that I thought was pertinent to all the speculation on > Android tablets and whether or not Chrome OS will ever be employed: > > Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user > experience, believes that the > company’s future success hinges on innovation. She encourages risk-taking > and readily acknowl- > edges that 60–80% of the company’s new products will fail. However, creating > an organizational > culture that embraces failure also helps produce the new product > introductions that should sustain > the company’s future sales growth > (Garrison, Ray H.. Managerial Accounting, 13th Edition. McGraw-Hill Higher > Education/CourseSmart, 02/13/2009. 520) > > So I guess to Google it's to be expected for things like Wave to utterly > flop. I guess Google is the true antithesis to Apple; Apple is elegant, all > products are seamlessly integrated, and control of the product line is about > as central as you can get where Google's products are utilitarian, hardware > is farmed out to any manufacturer that is interested (and software is freely > altered and adapted), and the strategy seems to be let the engineers roam > free and see what of the things they come up with stick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
