By Business Management Daily Google, the king of search engines, recently set out on a search of its own—to identify the qualities that make the highest- quality managers at Google Inc., and then to replicate those qualities across the entire company. Being Google, it first looked at data. According to a New York Times report, a “people ana­­­lytics” team compared correlations in the words and phrases that came up again and again in performance reviews, feedback surveys and recognition nominations. The end result: A simple, yet ele­gant, list of eight management practices that the best Google managers consistently do. … [Read more...]