Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Imagine a workplace where you’re excited to be on Monday mornings, where your talents are recognized and utilized, where you feel trusted and empowered rather than micromanaged.

This is the vision that Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at Google, presents in his book “Work Rules!” The fundamental problem Bock addresses is painfully familiar to many: work has become demotivating and dehumanizing for far too many people.

As he pointedly states, “We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It’s not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.”

During his tenure at Google, Bock witnessed the company’s extraordinary growth from 6,000 employees in 2006 to 60,000 in 2016.

Through this journey, he developed and refined unique approaches to workplace culture, hiring, management, and leadership that helped make Google consistently rated as one of the best places to work globally. His book isn’t just theoretical-it’s a practical playbook based on years of research, experiments, and real-world implementation.