8 practical and motivational thoughts from the book "Work Rules"

1. Modernize the organization. As a team leader, you must be willing to take personal action based on the outcome and change your behavior as needed.

2. Collect data. Group managers based on performance and employee survey results. If the team or organization is small, ask people what they value in good leaders.

3. The best should teach others. Ask the winner of the Best Employee award to train others as a condition of winning the award.

4. Rate the best employee according to salary. How many people would you replace your best employee for? You're probably underpaying your best employee if that number is more than five. And if that number is greater than ten, you are definitely underpaying him.

5. Salaries should be different at Google. The influence and the salary received by two people doing the same job are a hundred times different. One received a bonus of $10,000, and another worker in the same industry received $1,000,000.

6. Rewards between employees. At Google, every employee can give a co-worker a $175 bonus without telling the management. In many organizations, this would be seen as madness. Will employees trade rewards among themselves or abuse the system to make thousands of dollars in extra income? No, nothing like that happened.

7. A simple exercise to achieve awareness. "Mindfulness is focusing the mind on the present moment without judgment." To do this, sit quietly and focus on your breathing for two minutes. It improves cognitive function and facilitates decision-making.

8. Focus and evaluate Google is not a trap where we trick people into working day and night. What business do we have, where people work and how many hours? What matters is their efficiency and cohesion. People should come and go when they wish.