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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Concurrently, online advertising competition has increased with Microsoft/Yahoo and others digging into Google's search engine advertising market share through providing better value to online advertisers.

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Google's Project Oxygen

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Let the engineers do their stuff. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011. Later that year, the “people analytics” teams at the company produced what might be called the Eight Habits of Highly Effective Google Managers.

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A Drive for Excellence

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Engine Charlie's statement has never been more true as we witness the decline of the American automotive industry over the fifty years since his death. . Like Engine Charlie, most auto industry executives had summer homes in northern lower Michigan.

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How we connect with others today.

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Back in October 1971, an engineer (who was a high school friend in Upstate New York during the late 1950s) named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. Although we can interact with anyone, we still respond most quickly to our closest friends.

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Our Social Brain

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Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. As group size grows, a dizzying amount of data must be processed.

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Tablet Leadership Competition

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For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011. Making four successive versions of the Kindle e-reader also led Amazon down the path toward the Kindle Fire.

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Back to the Future: Sputnik to Today

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That Fall when I went to the university, many of my fellow students choose to become engineers to meet this international threat. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011. With sliderules on their belts, they studied to bring America up-to-speed with the Soviets. Why aren't U.S.

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