| Here's How Google Trains World-Class Managers (Using A Bit of Data Science Helps) Google is known for having some of the best managers in the world. Ever wonder how they train them? Let's take a look at Project Oxygen and how its findings helped Google's managers gain such a stellar reputation.
What is Project Oxygen? Project Oxygen was a research study at Google that had relatively inauspicious beginnings. Developers at the company had long complained about bad management stifling innovation, so Google's People Innovation Lab decided to conduct an experiment: Its principals hired statisticians to evaluate the differences between high- and low-rated managers. Included in that analysis was data from past performance appraisals, employee surveys, and interviews.
Some observers assumed that the Project Oxygen analysis would prove that manager quality does not impact individual team members' performances. Others thought it would impact individual performance. Unsurprisingly, the latter camp was right.
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