Googled: The end of the world as we know it , Ken Auletta

Aluetta has had unprecedented access to the notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

They take their motto seriously "Don't be evil" which is important when your ethos is to question everything and you believe in acting without asking permission and Google is a disruptive force in business. Think of what they have done to advertising: 40% of all the money spent on online advertising is spent at Google.

The influence of Google has been nothing short of spectacular. We don't search for information, we "google" it. Google aggregates 25,000 news sites daily, they are seeking to make almost every book every published available in digitized form.
They might well become the world's first $100 billion media company soon - twice the size of Time Warner, Disney or News Corp the world's three largest media conglomerates. Not bad for an 11 year old business.

Find out why. Find out how. Find out why not.

Strenghts based Leadership,Tom Rath & Barry Conchie

Caution! When picking up a book on leadership, check for the following two dump-it-immediately signals. One: All leaders, have, do, say, etc.
Two: The leadership lesson from a historical figure, a famous politician, sports coach, business person etc.

So why is this book worth knowing? For starters on page 10 the authors assert that great historical leaders, such as Winston Churchill, or Mahatma Gandhi have more differences than similarities and that it was the differences that defined them and made them great. And then their basis for the book is decades of Gallup's (the research firm) data on this topic that includes more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with senior leaders, studies of more than one-million work teams, and fifty years of polls regarding the world's most admired leaders.

Interesting findings emerge, which will add your insights into what it takes to be even more successful at leading.

Knowledge worth having

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