How Google Works is an interesting business take on organization management. It’s not the story of how Google works as much as it is how Google is run. If you are like me, thrilled by technical insight rather than business insight, this is not the book for you. But at some point, I began to see that technical insight requires a successful business basis. The book is a celebration of Google’s unorthodoxy of management. Though, Eric cannot seem to decide who he’s talking to, an upcoming entrepreneur, a job applicant or a competitor. My main issue with the book is that it fails to deliver the full story. Business secrecy holds Eric from fully exploring Google’s successes and failures. In fact, Google’s utmost secrecy is a topic never breached even though it’s an important aspect of how its business is run. He does not even get into how he helped scale Google. I think I became much more acutely aware of what is missing and altered to fit Eric’s vision in this book after reading In the Plex.