ROCATD colleagues enjoyed a great morning of networking and discussion of Work Rules (Insights from Inside Google).  We'd recommend picking-up a copy of the book to read over the holidays.  Maybe you will get a couple ideas like we did to implement in 2017.

A couple thoughts from our discussion:

• Founder mindset - taking responsibility for your environment
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast
• Hire smarter than you
• Learning and development - chunk it and practice a lot
• Googler to Googler (GtoG) - internal experts share their knowledge of work-related subject matter as well as non-work related topics = culture of learning.  Your best teachers are already inside your organization.
• Culture of innovation, experimentation and analytics
• Culture defined by mission and voice
• 20% of every team member's time allocated to what they want to learn, teach and work on = creativity and innovation

If you have read or read the book, share your insights and thoughts with a post.  See everyone at our next ROCATD event or SIG meeting.