Want your kid to work for Google? Stop studying and start cultivating

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There are 5 attributes Google, Inc. currently looks for when hiring an employee and guess what? The school you came from and your G.P.A. don't mean that much. In a New York Times article titled "How to Get a Job at Google" Thomas Friedman interviewed Laszlo Bock, the Senior Vice President of People Operations for Google and asks what they look for when hiring employees. Google determined that “G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don’t predict anything.” What does count? General cognitive ability- and it’s not I.Q., it's learning ability. Leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. Emergent leadership is described as "understanding when to assert your leadership qualities and just as importantly, when to step back and allow others to lead." Humility and ownership- “It’s feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in,” he said, to try to solve any problem — and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Expertise Be U, Inc.- Kids and Grownups Living from the Inside Out- We discuss the similarities between what Google is looking for and what our consciousness development system is all about. What do you do when your kids are "fighting" and they're both right? We share a story of our two daughters having a serious disagreement, how they were both right, and how we navigated through the experience. We also give our Oscar ballot results. Here's a clue- Todd was the runaway winner, but did some interesting "research" to get ready for the evening. We also play this ultra-funny Saturday Night Live Commercial. Listen and enjoy. If you shop Amazon by going through our website first (there is an amazon link on the bottom right hand of our home page), a portion of your sale will help fund our Be U program. Thanks for supporting us! Check out our new website & be sure to sign up to get all new podcast sent direct to your inbox @ ZPR. Todd's Men's Group has a few openings. Please email @ [email protected] for details. We would love to hear any comments from the show by sending us an email @ [email protected] You can be sure to hear more by liking our facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/ZenParenting

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0:00.0	Go ahead.
0:01.5	My name is Celia from Richmond, Virginia, and this is Zen Parenting Radio Podcast 165.
0:18.8	Okay, here we go. This is Todd Adams.
0:24.1	This is Kathy Adams. Welcome back, Zen Parenting Radio, episode number 165.
0:29.9	Zem Parenting Radio is a discussion between a spiritual and practical mom. That's you, sweetie,
0:34.1	and a logical and practical dad. That's me. We have three daughters, ages six, nine, and ten.
0:38.1	And our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more importantly,
0:41.3	to become a better you.
0:42.6	And then the mantra is, the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding.
0:48.7	Motto.
0:49.6	Motto, mantra.
0:50.6	What's the difference?
0:51.8	We've gone through it oh listen to that last podcast if you forgot um so
0:57.3	we have a ton to go through kind of a lot of little things but our most important topic of the
1:03.2	week is i just pulled up a newspaper article newspaper like a lot of kids are like what are they
1:09.6	talking about um on's a newspaper article?
1:11.3	On the hiring manager at Google and what he looks for in new applicants. Yeah, article by
1:19.7	Thomas Friedman. I think you took it from the New York Times. Yes. There's a lot of validity
1:23.8	with this article, meaning it's from people that I think people know.
1:28.1	That's right.
1:29.1	So, anyways, so we're going to talk about that because it kind of plays into what we're
1:33.9	teaching at BU.
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