To be honest, I have great interest in Information Technology so the first topic of Google's management style vs Apple's management style totally caught my interest in CDE. In my opinion, Having a course like this will definitely bring great benefits to our class students. Let me further elaborate on how is this beneficial to our class. Having to read all these interesting articles, our class students will be able to know how do companies around the world work (In this case Google and Apple). This broadens the students’ view as we’re now exposed to the reason behind their success and how are they different from Chinese companies that have traditional kind of thinking.
Secondly, this elective provides our classmates with opportunity to speak up and express their view during lessons thus improving their communication skills to an extent. This elective also doesn’t give us information straight away and or simply us to “read, read and read”. Instead, we are allowed to discuss in the class and by this way we can definitely learn from each other and thru that, we'll be able to always have different point of view instead of a single-sided argument.
Lastly, this elective also allows to know how these global companies links to the eastern ideas. Example will be the recent discussion between Google’s way/ Apple’s way relationship with the idea of Confucianism. It’s very interesting to know how these global companies have in common of the idea developed thousand of years ago. If I’m not wrong, We’ll further discuss the idea of Confucianism in a future tutorial.
All the facts stated above will help to develop one’s idea of how other people work and at the same time, linking back to what we have at the moment.
Besides that, having to read the interesting fact of how Google employers work in the Google office, I had developed some thoughts about working in there. Personally I love working in an environment that allows you to express freely of what you feel and what you think. That matches perfectly with Google’s working environment. Besides, Google office is kind of a “stress-free” environment, imagine an office having pools, free massage service, gym and more! I believe that if someone is able to work without stress, more creative and innovative ideas will come to their mind and the one who benefit from it is definitely their employers.
Another fact i will like to bring up is that by working in the Google Office, it gives the employees pride in their work. Just imagine yourself telling your friends when you open up www.google.com and say “Hey! I did part of it!”. I believe someone will do double as hard if he have pride in his own work.
Besides that, there’s also some potential negatives working in the Google Office. Firstly, someone may suffer from stress due to the fact that Google gives their employees 20% of their time to work on their own idea/project. If this employee failed to have an idea to work on, stress of getting reprimanded during the peer review session. Secondly, tension between employees in Google may build up during the peer review session caused by a slightly aggressive comment on other’s project. Lastly, “Google Way” may not be suitable for those that doesn’t have self discipline as someone can choose to work at anytime he or she want. If someone doesn’t limit himself or herself, he/she may have to rush the work given to them and ended up using the 20% of new productivity ideas.
Upon finishing this tutorial, I had improved my knowledge on Apple and Google and most remarkably, the reason behind their success. I had definitely developed my interest in this subject and I hope that I’ll be able to contribute to the class discussion in the upcoming tutorials.
