Jake Spurlock

Tag: Management

  • Build a Ship

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    If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince via Reed Hastings – Culture

  • In Head?Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

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    So many good things about hiring and personnel in this article with  Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google. Q.Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees? A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are…