You know, I've had it way up to my eyeballs with the kids down in Mountain View. You know the ones. Yes, they write a lot of checks for some potentially useful purposes, but please. Isn't everyone sick of crap like this from the fawning media?
Everyone wants to work at Google. It’s a money machine with a stock price bouncing around $700. The employees are brilliant and free organic meals are served every day.
Blech. That would be Fortune's Wendy Tanaka, planting a wet sloppy one on Eric & Company.
But just when I might be drawn into a swirling pit of despair, Fake Steve is there to pull me back from the edge. A tidbit:
Worse yet the article goes on to portray Google as a place where kids sit in meetings answering email on laptops instead of paying attention and where everyone has such a severe case of Attention Deficit Disorder that "there are no two-year plans. Its product road maps look ahead only four or five months at most. And, Mr. Schmidt says, the only plans `anybody believes in go through the end of this quarter.'"
No long-range planning? Really? Cool! It's a whole new paradigm! Get Chris Anderson from Wired on the phone right away. Or Scoble. There's a book in this for sure. Radical Velocity: How Google Succeeds Without Planning. Or this one: Totally Random: How to Accelerate Your Business Using Pure, Dumb Luck.
Ahhh....
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