How Google Works

BOOK SUMMARY

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and senior vice president of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help the company thrive.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt and former senior vice president of products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers and why success depends on creating superior products and attracting a new breed of multifaceted “smart creatives.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Schmidt served as Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011 and transformed it into a global technology leader. He is now Google’s executive chairman.

Jonathan Rosenberg joined Google in 2002 and managed the design and development of the company’s consumer, advertiser, and partner products, including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, Apps, and Chrome. He is currently an advisor to Google CEO Larry Page.

PRAISE

“An informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman’s perspective.”
—Kirkus

“An energized and exciting primer on creating a company and workforce prepared to meet an inspiring future.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Chairman Eric Schmidt and exec advisor Jonathan Rosenberg pull back the curtain to reveal how the company created its unique culture of workplace innovation.”
—Fortune

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Paperback
320 pages
Non-fiction
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.8 lb