Remember when Jobs got in Schmidt's face about poaching Apple employees? It was a chess move. It built an ice wall between Apple's employees and Google's recruiters.
Google hires executives, directors, and managers -- positions based upon experience. Factoring out Apple, who else has this kind of talent? Microsoft.
Microsoft, whose former CEO famously hated Silicon Valley and built a company around this ethos. Whose very soul grates on the fluid agility that embodies the Bay Area. Whose org chart freezes ideas in mid-air.
We can assume that some of Google's 3,000+ ex-Microsofties fill management positions. It is unclear how many ex-Apple employees fill these roles because their numbers don't make the Fast Company list.
Jobs was mad at Google for Android: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war."
The author of the Fox Business article claims that "it all started when Schmidt turned the company over to Page and Brin."
This is false. Schmidt didn't turn the company over to Page and Brin; he turned it over to Ballmer and Gates.
In other words: Google isn't flailing because engineers work on cool projects. It's flailing because they don't.
Remember when Jobs got in Schmidt's face about poaching Apple employees? It was a chess move. It built an ice wall between Apple's employees and Google's recruiters.
Google hires executives, directors, and managers -- positions based upon experience. Factoring out Apple, who else has this kind of talent? Microsoft.
Microsoft, whose former CEO famously hated Silicon Valley and built a company around this ethos. Whose very soul grates on the fluid agility that embodies the Bay Area. Whose org chart freezes ideas in mid-air.
Microsoft sends more talent to Google than any other company: http://qz.com/342229/where-tech-companies-hire-from/
We can assume that some of Google's 3,000+ ex-Microsofties fill management positions. It is unclear how many ex-Apple employees fill these roles because their numbers don't make the Fast Company list.
Google management has become a self-propelling vortex extracting lifeforce from developers: http://www.fastcompany.com/3022131/leadership-now/does-googl...
Jobs was mad at Google for Android: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war."
The author of the Fox Business article claims that "it all started when Schmidt turned the company over to Page and Brin."
This is false. Schmidt didn't turn the company over to Page and Brin; he turned it over to Ballmer and Gates.
In other words: Google isn't flailing because engineers work on cool projects. It's flailing because they don't.