谷歌美女副总裁:创新团队实则扼杀创新 摘自: 《商业周刊》日前(这是2008年12月的采访)撰文称,今年是谷歌创立10周年,在这个特殊的时刻,《商业周刊》硅谷站总编罗伯特霍夫(Robert D. Hof)对负责搜索产品和用户体验的谷歌副总裁玛丽莎梅耶尔(Marissa Mayer)进行了采访。 其中一部分: 创新团队实则扼杀创新 霍夫: 许多公司想知道他们能否采用谷歌的管理方式。鉴于谷歌独特的成功故事,他们做到这一点很难吗? 梅耶尔: 我不这么认为。你不必建立到处摆放着玩具的五彩缤纷的工作园区,提供免费食品。重要的是认识到每家公司都有其不同之处,他们提供给员工的好处一定要符合他们公司的文化和独特的状况。不过,显然有些东西是可以复制的,比如建立小团队,授予这些团队更多的自主权,这样,可以培养出更多人才。或者,真正强调和要求公司每个人和每个部门进行创新。 一家公司所做的最糟糕的决定之一是,设立研发部门或创新团队。一旦一家公司让某些员工专注于创新,别人就会停止创新的脚步 。 原文: A lot of other companies wonder if they can adapt Google's methods. Is that tough for them to do, given Google's unique success? I don't think so. You don't need to build brightly colored campuses filled with toys and then offer free food. It's important to realize each company is different and the benefits they offer their employees need to customized to their culture and their unique situation. But there clearly are things that can be replicated, like having small teams, awarding a lot of ownership to those teams so you stretch and grow those people. Or really focusing on and demanding that innovation come from everyone and everywhere throughout the organization. One of the worst things you can do in a company is to have an RD segment or an innovation group. Once you have some people whose job it is to innovate, everyone else stops innovating . 中文全文见: http://www.gseeker.com/50226711/eceiee_164573.php 英文全文见: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2008/tc20081214_636046_page_2.htm