Oxygen Project - a whiteboard gag - don't be a sissy.
The third is they have a terrible boss — and this was the biggest variable...
The list goes on, reading like a whiteboard gag from an episode of “The Office.”
“My first reaction was, that’s it?” says Laszlo Bock, Google’s vice president for “people operations,”...
What employees valued most were even-keeled bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings,
who helped people puzzle through problems by asking questions, not dictating answers,
and who took an interest in employees’ lives and careers. ..
“In the Google context, we’d always believed that to be a manager, particularly on the engineering side,
you need to be as deep or deeper a technical expert than the people who work for you,” Mr. Bock says.
“It turns out that that’s absolutely the least important thing.."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html