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Business Lessons From Google Corporation

Google is one example of a successful company thanks to continuous innovation. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on 4 September 1998 when they were still a student at Stanford University. Starting from a Google search engine, Google has now become the largest Internet company that creates a variety of services and applications.

Of course it takes a long journey to become Google what it is today. It takes hard work and continuous innovation to constantly evolving. They apply several unique custom developed to foster a culture of innovation and creativity in its environment. One way is to hold weekly meetings. During the meeting all the Google employees from around the world freely provide questions to Google executives, either directly or via email. In the meeting, employees are also entitled to critique or suggestions and also deliver creative ideas to the leaders of the company.

Here is something that we can learn from Google Corporation which has been successful in business which delivered the CEO of Google, Larry Page, as quoted from Wired.com:

1. "Crazy" Performing
In pushing his team to innovate, Larry Page always give advice " If you do not do crazy things, you do things wrong." Perhaps the phrase is very appropriate in the business world, especially those who engaged in creative technology. Many companies that becomes large then it careless and forgot to innovate. It is highly avoided by Google. Every Google employees are required to "Think Big" or think creatively, to find and do things that are not ordinary .

Since childhood, Larry Page dream is wanted to be an inventor. He does not just want to create great products, but also wants to change the world. And it proved to be a dream come true and stay alive until now that he embodied with Google. Satisfaction is when he and his team can develop innovative 10 times they had developed previously. So it is not surprising that innovation is the main core of Google's business. We can see from Google services such as Gmail, the email service which offers a storage capacity of 100-fold greater than the capacity provided by other email services.

Various other Google services also emerged from the ideas of "Crazy". As we see today, such as multiple language translation service in Google Translate. Map service “Google Maps”, and the latest is an Internet-based data storage services and cloud computing, “Google Drive”. And of course the video sharing service YouTube, the Android operating system and Chrome browser is very interesting and has been used by millions of people in the world. All started from ideas of "Crazy".

The latest information, Google reportedly is building a project and a special lab called Google X. The lab contains a variety of facilities designed to support a variety of Google research to create future technologies. Like a car that can run itself as well as technology-based Augmented Reality glasses.

2 . Innovation Must be Consistent With Commercialization
One more business advice from Google CEO, Larry Page, innovations made must be followed by the commercialization step. We can take a lesson from Xeroc PARC company, a Xerox Corp. subsidiary. Established in 1970, Xerox PARC was famous for innovations in the field of technology and hardware. Some of the innovations made by Xeroc PARC plays an important role in the development of modern computing world, among them such as Ethernet, Graphical User Interface (GUI), as well as a laser printer technology.

Unfortunately Xeroc PARC is not too focused on commercialization. That's what makes the company failed. Larry gave the following example, which Tesla company. Tesla is one of the companies that he admired. Tesla engaged in developing innovative car. But in the end the company founded by Nikola Tesla is failed. It caused by too focused on innovation. Tesla spent 99 percent of his effort to develop products that people liked.

From those two example, we can take a lesson, that every company needs two things to succeed and thrive, namely innovation and commercialization.

3 . Never Too Focus On Competition
In contrast to other companies, Google is applying the philosophy to not overly focus on the competition. Google is focusing on the development of products and services, not just focus on competition and competition.

"What is interesting from the work if the best thing we can do is beat the other companies doing the same thing with us? That makes a lot of companies fall slowly. They tend to do the same with their ever done and made some minor changes." Said Larry Page.

According to Page, it is natural that many people always want to focus and do the things which they are sure not to fail. But more than that, to achieve success, a company needs to make a big change.

We can see when Google released its Gmail service. At that time it was still limited to be a search engine companies. Creating a web-based email service is a big leap for Google. Moreover Gmail dare provides email storage capacity many times greater than a similar email service provider at the time.

At the time Google developed Gmail. Already there are several other companies that have a search engine. Gmail will not exist if it just focus to compete with companies such search engines. Google prefers to focus on developing products and services.

That are three business lesson from Google. We can take a lesson from these advices to develop our business.

The Characteristics of the Ideal Business

Many people are now vying for business. This phenomenon is very worth to be thankful for. When some country has more entrepreneurs then a country will be more prosperous. The business idea is very diverse, there is a great need of capital to get started, and some have no need capital to start a business.

In essence, all of the business which does not violate laws and regulations are good. However, a business should not only as good business, but it should ideal too. And for me the ideal business is:

• Have unlimited potential. Business value can develop very rapidly. Facebook prices are rising rapidly.

• Needed by many people. Your business should not limited only in certain areas. Large market share will create a huge demand. You can imagine if you have an offline retail store offline, you only have a limited range of marketing areas.

• Easy at-leverage. Easily evolve without having to expend a lot of energy and your resources.

• you can set the price by yourself. So the price is not determined by the market.

• Do not spend a lot of your time. Yes, at first you have to give full attention to each business that you start. But after that, you can relax and not be confined by your business is.

• Business runs by self. Without having you deal with anything, it still and will run the business.

• Without receivables. Consumers pay in cash. No debt or credit. Even you did not have a lot of debt.

• No need large cost. Without having to hire an expensive business location and high operational costs.

Easily moved. You can easily to move your business from one city to

"I forgot my homework"

Each student is always given homework on the topics that have been received in the classroom. Function of this homework is in addition to reviewing the topics received; this also is to train students in studying activities regularly. Usually students are lazy to study at home; give homework is a form of "coercion" to the students to always study. Does not bring homework assignments can be a problem for students, because of it, homework assignments must be completed and submitted to the class at all costs.

There are several reasons why the students did not turn in his homework to class:
1. Forgot to do it.
2. Not understanding what is assigned.
3. Already did, but lost.
4. Already did but forgot to be brought to campus.

When I was a student, I had an incident where I forgot to do my homework. The task must be presented in front of the teachers and classmates on the next day. I am confused as hell. Do immediately was no longer possible, because the homework requires analyzes that take time and should open some literature. Fortunately there is a friend giving advice in completing my homework assignment. I do my homework online!

Just a few moments my homework has been completed. I just read and study the results to be presented in front of the class. With the help of online, I survived from the confusion and numbness in the front of the class. For me doing homework online is fine as long as it is used as a source to increase knowledge and insight, because sometimes homework cannot be done because it is too hard. I assume that the online homework assignment is to consult with an expert. I can use the result directly or redesigned to be more perfect. People who do my homework online I assumed as a studying mate.

Why Students Should Make Essay Writing?

There are 3 reasons why students have to make essay writing, namely:

1. To summarize the lessons learned. For 5 days in a week and almost a full year of students received so many scientific theories. Some being entered in the brain, some just disappear. Writing an essay is a summary of all the theory that has been taught by the lecturers. The hope is with the writing of an essay, students can more easily understand the science that is received.

2. Improve mindset. Essay writing forces the students to think creative. In addition, the students are forced to read some books (maybe could reach 5 or more literature related to the theme of essay). With so many books to read, then the student mindset and reasoning power will automatically flourish.

3. To Be critical. There is some Essay written by a specific problem. For example, in Australia business school, the students were given the task of writing an essay based on specific business cases. Students are assigned to analyze and solve the business case. Solving such problems is many; it can be seen from the leadership, organization, business operations, and so forth. They criticized the case in many ways. It will make its own dynamics in the attitude of the students. Further expectation is that they can apply the things that feel good when they have entered into the work field

That is why essay writing is very required for the students. It is not easy to write an essay, but these difficulties are enormous benefits. If you are a student, then you must make very good essay writing. Not only to obtain the score or merely for a graduation requirement, but it is for yourself. Knowledge you have is your strength to do activities in the business world and the work field. If you are an Australian student who has difficulty in writing an essay, try to consult your problem to Australia essay writing service.

Learning The Business Through Video

Every businessman must always improve their business knowledge at all times. The need for business knowledge is essential in order to maintain and improve the sustainability of its business. There are three ways to obtain business knowledge, namely:

1. Through formal education or attending a seminar. This means that businesses owner should take the time to be in the classroom.
2. Learn on their own. Learn on their own can be through business books or download video in safari.
3. Combination of both. It means besides formal education, businessman is also keen to read books and watch videos about the business.

OK, forget for a moment about the business through formal learning (school or attending a seminar), because this is very easy, you just register at school and then attend the class or seminar. What we discuss now is about learning business through video.

Why learning business through video? Hey, wake up .. It is a multimedia era. All business activities including learning can take advantage from multimedia technology. Moreover, knowledge is more absorbed through video than reading a book.

Are there videos about business studies? There are so many! Ranging from free to paid video. Surely you know Youtube. Well, on this site you can get a lot of videos about business matter. You have to download and watch! To download videos from Youtube, I suggest you use safari video downloader.

Why? Because this software is very easy to use. After downloading and installing video downloader safari, it will automatically displayed download video button when you open a video on youtube through firefox. It's easy.

Additionally, safari video downloader enables the downloaded video can be converted to sound files in mp3 format. Obviously this is very useful. Business videos that you download and converted to mp3 file can listen when you're driving a car for example (obviously you cannot watch video while driving, instead).

You who have a tablet computer, the easiness to download videos in safari will be increasingly felt. Video you want to download can be done with a single touch of a safari download button on your tablet touch screen. I suggest, this software should always be in your business computer, laptop, iPad, or tablet computer.

No need to spend money to have a safari video downloader. This software is free, and this software will not harm your computer performance. There is no virus in it, 100% clean!