Mathematics and Management
Mathematics also directly affects Google's management methods. The practice of reasoning encourages precision. Mathematicians know the problems of approximation that are encountered in everyday life, but they discuss these problems with discipline.
"To speak with rigor about what is approximate"[62] is one definition of math that applies to Google's management practices. Nothing moves forward that isn't backed up by data or can't be proven. This sometimes gives meetings a hard edge (an opinion had better be provable, or it's likely to be disputed and attacked), but this rigor avoids smokescreens and most errors of logic such as the very classical confusion between volume and duration. (This confusion is exemplified by ...
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