Why do some teams thrive while others flounder? Google famously empowers teams that in turn perform and exceed targets. The firm even allows employees to spend 20 per cent of their time working on their own initiatives and creating their own teams. Over the past ten years, Google is known for its work teams generating innovative new products used by billions of global citizens.
On the other hand, Yahoo for years tried and tried and tried again to attract top human talent, form innovative teams, then tried to achieve renewed success. However, year after year, Yahoo failed to achieve its former glory and marked very few successes. Commensurate with its decline, the company even suffered repeated embarrassing security breaches in its signature web-based email product. Upon the security failures, Yahoo found it even more difficult to get their teams to perform.
