The PeopleAnalyst Guide
A companion to Laszlo Bock's Work Rules! — research-anchored and built to run.
The PeopleAnalyst Guide to Work Rules.
Bock’s Work Rules! is the best-selling account of how Google built its people practices. This is the companion: for each chapter — what Bock argues, what the peer-reviewed research actually says, how to run it, the analysis you can execute, the AI-era turn, and what to do Monday. The substance is ours, organized around his themes; a working draft, edited in the open.
- 01Becoming a Founder
- 02"Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast"
- 03Lake Wobegon (Hire Only People Better Than You)
- 04Searching for the Best
- 05Don't Trust Your Gut
- 06Let the Inmates Run the Asylum
- 07Why Everyone Hates Performance Management
- 08The Two Tails
- 09Building a Learning Institution
- 10Pay Unfairly
- 11The Best Things in Life Are Free (or Almost Free)
- 12Nudge… a Lot
- 13It's Not All Rainbows and Unicorns
- 14What You Can Do Starting Tomorrow
How to use it
Each chapter ends in a runnable analysis — most of them compose toolbox spokes that already exist. Read the book profile for the structured map of the source; run the analyses in the People Analytics Toolbox. The reliability and transparency spines run through the whole Guide — see The Reliability Problem and Show Your Work.