Work Rules!

A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live. Work Rules! is full of counter-intuitive wisdom and game-changing insights, including:

• How to learn from your best employees — and your worst
• Only hire people smarter than you
• Don't trust your gut

The way we work is changing — are you?

• Preface: A Guidance Counselor's Nightmare
  Building the perfect Google resume, in retrospect
• Why Google's Rules Will Work for You
  The surprising (and surprisingly successful) places that work just as we do

1. Becoming a Founder
   Just as Larry and Sergey laid the foundation for how Google treats its people, you can lay the foundation for how your team works and lives
2. "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast"
   If you give people freedom, they will amaze you
3. Lake Wobegon, Where All the New Hires Are Above Average
   Why hiring is the single most important people activity in any organization
4. Searching for the Best
   The evolution of Google's "self-replicating talent machine"
5. Don't Trust Your Gut
   Why our instincts keep us from being goodf interviewers, and what you can do to hire better
6. Let the Inmates Run the Asylum
   Take power from your managers and trust your people to run things
7. Why Everyone Hates Performance Management, and What We Decided to Do About It
   
8. The Two Tails
   The Biggest opportunities lie in your absolute worst and best employees
9. Building a Learning Institution
   Your best teachers already work for you … Let them teach!
10. Pay Unfairly
    Why it's okay to pay two people in the same job completely different amounts
11. The Best Things in Life Are Free (or Alsmost Free)
    Most of Google's people programs can be duplicated by anyone
12. Nudge … a Lot
    Small signals can cause large changes in behavior. How one email can improve productivity by 25 percent
13. It's Not All Rainbows and Unicorns
    Google's biggest people mistakes and what you can do to avoid them
14. What Can You Do Starting Tomorrow
    Ten steps to transform your team and your workplace

• Afterword for HR Geeks Only: Building the World's First People Operations Team
  The blueprint for a new kind of HR
• Work Rules

Interestingly, I bought this book to have another view on OKRs, but what I found was a very good book on HR overall, based on among other things Google :-)

Totally recommended reading, for anyone that has anything to do with staffing, recruiting managing people, etc.