What Would Google Do?
Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World
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3.8 • 23 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.”
—USA Today
“An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.”
—Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody
“A stimulating exercise in thinking really, really big.”
—San Jose Mercury News
What Would Google Do? is an indispensable manual for survival and success in today’s internet-driven marketplace. By “reverse engineering the fastest growing company in the history of the world,” author Jeff Jarvis, proprietor of Buzzmachine.com, one of the Web’s most widely respected media blogs, offers indispensible strategies for solving the toughest new problems facing businesses today. With a new afterword from the author, What Would Google Do? is the business book that every leader or potential leader in every industry must read.
Reverse-engineer Google’s success and discover the new rules of business:
Customer Control: Your worst customer is your best friend. Learn why giving people control is the essential rule of the new age and how to build a better company by listening to the conversation.Networks and Platforms: Do what you do best and link to the rest. Master the new architecture of business where openness is the key to success and your company becomes a platform for others to build upon.The Post-Scarcity Economy: The mass market is dead—long live the mass of niches. Understand the shift from an economy based on scarcity to one based on abundance, where Google’s rules can change everything.Free is a Business Model: Discover why charging less—or nothing at all—can maximize growth and value, and how to find new revenue and profit through the side door.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This scattered collection of rambling rants lauding Google's abilities to harness the power of the "Internet Age" generally misses the mark. Blog impresario Jarvis uses the company's success to trace aspects of the new customer-driven, user-generated, niche-market-oriented, customized and collaborative world. While his insights are stimulating, Jarvis's tone is acerbic and condescending; equally off-putting is his pervasive name-dropping. The book picks up in a section on media, where the author finally launches a fascinating discussion of how businesses especially media and entertainment industries can continue to evolve and profit by using Google's strategies. Unfortunately, Jarvis may have lost the reader by that point as his attempt to cover too many topics reads more like a series of frenzied blog posts than a manifesto for the Internet age.
Customer Reviews
A new business classic.
I originally heard about this book on TWiG (This Week in Google) on TWiT.tv. Jeff, the Author, co-hosts the popular showcast.
As a current Masters Student in Information Systems Management, this book is an excellent source of knowledge regarding the Business 2.0 world.
I would recommend this to anyone who runs, owns or is on the executive team of a company that's in the public eye. What he says makes perfect sense. Jeff "gets it" ... After reading this, you will too.
Great book!
I first learned of Mr. Jarvis and this book through the "This Week in Google" podcast. What he was saying on the show made a lot of sense.
Enter this book... It makes even more. I work in the IT field, and found a lot of really good arguments for things I have always thought were going on, or, in the case of most business, NOT going on. Mr. Jarvis gave me a lot of ammunition to use in these fights, if you will.
So, if you are one of the old school crowd, you will not like this book. If you are one of the new business model mind, then this is for you. Get it now and let's all change the world!