What Would Google Do? - Softcover

Jarvis, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061719919 ISBN 13: 9780061719912

Publisher: Collins, 2009

Synopsis

"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.

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Review

"Most of Jarvis's points-about customer influence, user-driven innovation, the death of middlemen-are by now axiomatic. And yet he manages to make the revolution feel newly revolutionary. . . . the book exudes credibility." -- Inc.

"Blogger/columnist Jeff Jarvis's treatise on how-and why-companies should think and act like Google brings to mind several trite words from the world of literary criticism: eye-opening, thought-provoking and enlightening." -- USA Today

"Blogger/columnist Jeff Jarvis's treatise on how--and why--companies should think and act like Google brings to mind several trite words from the world of literary criticism: eye-opening, thought-provoking and enlightening."--USA Today

"[Jarvis's] bold thinking and prodigious faith results in a rollicking sermon on reinvention and reinvigoration."--Miami Herald

"[Jarvis's] observations are worth reading....We're never going to unplug the Internet, so read this book with the long view in mind. Mr. Jarvis's rules don't all apply to you, but they're all true enough for someone"--Wall Street Journal

"Most of Jarvis's points--about customer influence, user-driven innovation, the death of middlemen--are by now axiomatic. And yet he manages to make the revolution feel newly revolutionary. . . . the book exudes credibility."--Inc.

"For those who haven't thought much about how radically, rapidly and irreversibly the Internet has empowered us and changed our culture, "What Would Google Do?" by Jeff Jarvis will be revelatory. It is a stimulating exercise in thinking really, really big. "--San Jose Mercury News

"Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do? is a divining rod for anyone looking for ways to hit real paydirt in the new territory of Web 2.0 marketing. Jarvis has a sharp eye for what is relevant, real, and actionable. Isn't that what we all need today?"--Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com

"What Would Google Do? is an exceptional book that captures the massive changes the internet is effecting in our culture, in marketing, and in advertising."--Craig Newmark, Founder of craigslist

"[Jarvis] is an intelligent observer of technology and the media and has intellectual scruples.... [T]here are lessons to be learnt from Google and its single-minded determination to change how business is done."--Financial Times

From the Back Cover

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do?

In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google--the fastest-growing company in history--to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything--from corporations to governments, nations to individuals--must evolve in the Google era.

Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question.

The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061719919
• ISBN 13: 9780061719912
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448