Google, Apple and Semco
While reading the articles one may be thinking, “How can these companies managing styles have anything in common?” or “How could they possibly be doing the same thing?” Managing styles of these three firms do have something in common though, they work. While they may not have similar tactics, Job’s and his micromanaging and Google with the 20% free time, they all have incredibly productive and creative employees. While Apple and SEMCO are doing strangely (with their crazy techniques) well with holding on to their employees, Google with the free-rain program is not doing so well with keeping employees. Google’s employees are given too much freedom, nothing is holding them back. They are already creative, even Google acknowledges this, they wouldn’t have been hired otherwise, but having 20% free time is what seems to be the problem. Having the time once a week allows workers to start building their own project, and they have resources around them to start. By allowing employees so much freedom Google is begging to lose workers that want to become entrepreneurs. SEMCO and APPLE are doing things right and in drastically different...
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