and how to get the rest just as good.
As this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&ref=business
says, what makes a truly great manager lies in a few fairly obvious things. What Google found out of the data from their internal study is exactly what makes a great Google manager. Which may have nothing to do with what makes a great Lufthansa manager, for example.
Google is heavily reliant on solid data, even in their HR, a field often relying only on experience and intuition. Forward-thinking companies though, like Google, are turning more and more to data to complement experience and intuition. (See Todd (more…)