Adam Lashinsky of CNN/ Fortune posted an interesting piece on Google"s brain drain -- more and more employees leaving to create their own, less bureaucratic and thus more agile start-ups -- and Google"s present and future challenges. Like balancing and moderating the needs of various teams, as well as trying to consolidate different product efforts. From the article:
At Google, what you often end up with instead of resource allocation is a laissez-faire mess. Take, for example, the hassles Dave Girouard had to face. Girouard is vice president in charge of Google Apps, the company"s fledgling initiative to sell Web-based software applications to businesses. He wanted some alterations to Gmail to make the e-mail product more appealing to h ...
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