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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

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Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said.

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To Get More Done, Focus on Environment, Expectations, and Examples

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In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. Expectations.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization. “Try to understand the type of culture that this candidate has worked in and her ability to learn and adapt to a new ones,” he says. “There are no right or wrong answers,” he says.