Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm
by Retric on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:18PM
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IMO, Google suffers from the curse of Oil in corporate terms. As long as they milk their core product they can do just about anything and look competent. Which allows a horribly dysfunctional leadership to thrive.
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Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm
by bla2 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:23PM
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Google seems to be doing ok to me. I like your point that success can hide problems though; Ed Catmull presents it very well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc
It looks like people were suggesting that Google takes this advice more to heart six years ago already: https://hbr.org/2010/08/what-google-could-learn-from-p
Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm
by GrumpyYoungMan on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:35PM
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>As long as they milk their core product they can do just about anything and look competent. Which allows a horribly dysfunctional leadership to thrive.
Until one day, reality reasserts itself and things start melting down. It occurred at IBM, its occurring at Microsoft, and it will occur at Google, Amazon, and the rest of the tech giants.
Re:Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm
by bane on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:48PM
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I've been reading up a lot on early Atari and history shows a remarkably similar phenomenon with the success of the Atari 2600/VCS. It didn't matter what management did, they'd make money, until the management finally became so terrible, and the debt of poor decisions finally did the company in.