There is a time when seats are more important than money, but a lot of the applications Google comes up with just compete with existing products, and since the category already exists seats are a pointless exercise.

There is a time when seats are more important than money, but a lot of the applications Google comes up with just compete with existing products, and since the category already exists seats are a pointless exercise.

Economists tell us that globalism will be good for “us,” as in who the hell is “us,” in the long run, as in “after people die,” as long as we don't play it as a zero-sum game, as in that's exactly how we are playing it, otherwise we wouldn't lose jobs just because we offshored jobs.

As for a management challenge, stop with the zero sum game. Stop with the culture fit, contractualized open sourcing, the failure to insist that globalized work meet requirements, and get on with real globalization and innovation. Still, left to their training, managers can't innovate, because they won't insist on separation, and taking the long road to technology adoption. Management insists that innovation fails. Yes, it fails, because of management practices. Stop it. We know how to succeed, but management just can't do that.

Economists tell us that globalism will be good for “us,” as in who the hell is “us,” in the long run, as in “after people die,” as long as we don’t play it as a zero-sum game, as in that’s exactly how we are playing it, otherwise we wouldn’t lose jobs just because we offshored jobs.

As for a management challenge, stop with the zero sum game. Stop with the culture fit, contractualized open sourcing, the failure to insist that globalized work meet requirements, and get on with real globalization and innovation. Still, left to their training, managers can’t innovate, because they won’t insist on separation, and taking the long road to technology adoption. Management insists that innovation fails. Yes, it fails, because of management practices. Stop it. We know how to succeed, but management just can’t do that.

“Users not Money: Focus on giving the users what they want and not on money it will generate. If enough users get what they want, money will follow. Google does not do business cases for launching new features.”

http://cdoq.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-manage…

I don't know if I agree completely with Mayer, but I do believe that having millions of users indicates value.

“Users not Money: Focus on giving the users what they want and not on money it will generate. If enough users get what they want, money will follow. Google does not do business cases for launching new features.”

http://cdoq.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-management-principles.html

I don’t know if I agree completely with Mayer, but I do believe that having millions of users indicates value.