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Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year

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Re: Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year

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I wonder what kind of post mortem an organization the size of Google does to get even a 1% insight into why things are slow and broken instead of firing people and repeating velocity, agility and nimbleness on a rosary.

Velocity requires years of investment in building better tools and processes, a culture with less meetings and more work, an itch to make things happen but also enough lulls to recover and most importantly learning from past mistakes and reducing repeats.

Re: Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year

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I wonder what kind of post mortem an organization the size of Google does to get even a 1% insight into why things are slow and broken instead of firing people and repeating velocity, agility and nimbleness on a rosary. Velocity requires years of investment in building better tools and processes, a culture with less meetings and more work, an itch to make things happen but also enough lulls to recover and most import…

“…repeating velocity, agility and nimbleness on a rosary” - that was so good. You made my day sir!