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Google discovered the traits of best managers

Written by Modar HIJAZI 11:43 am on 19 June, 2019 — Leave a Comment

Scott Mautz, Inc

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
  • Google set out to prove that it didn’t need managers with Project Oxygen, but it was a failure.
  • In the process, however, the company realized the value of managers who guide their team to success.
  • Here are the 10 characteristics Google found essential to make a great manager, including being inclusive and having the confidence to make decisions.

It’s not every day you learn of a really smart company setting out to prove that managers don’t matter. But that’s exactly what Google did with Project Oxygen.

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Roll Your Own Unroll.me With a Google Script

Written by Modar HIJAZI 3:51 pm on 25 April, 2017 — Leave a Comment

Thorin Klosowski

Unroll.me, the newsletter unsubscription service, was just busted selling off more data than most of us thought possible, so it goes without saying that many are dumping the service altogether. Good news though, a Google Script can unsubscribe you from a ton of emails almost just as easily. Read more »

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Project ARA (modular smartphone) is officially dead

Written by Modar HIJAZI 10:56 am on 2 September, 2016 — Leave a Comment

Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts – sources

Prototype modular parts created by Yezz Mobile for Project Ara, Google's modular smartphone project, are shown during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona March 1, 2015. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino

By Julia Love | SAN FRANCISCO

Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company’s hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The move marks an about-face for the tech company, which announced a host of partners for Project Ara at its developer conference in May and said it would ship a developer edition of the product this autumn.

The company’s aim was to create a phone that users could customize on the fly with an extra battery, camera, speakers or other components.

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Google afterlife

Written by Modar HIJAZI 10:41 am on 21 August, 2014 — Leave a Comment

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Scottish mechanic and his buddies staged a fake murder on Google Street View

Written by Modar HIJAZI 12:56 pm on 5 June, 2014 — Leave a Comment

You can check directly on Google street view

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