Googledom

Google is literally growing an empire. In fact, it recently flexed its muscle as it handled its international affairs with China in a recent privacy spate. But let's not go down the road of whether corporations are slowly becoming legitimate global players in a new world or not; if its moving beyond interNATIONal relations towards a global world order moving beyond nation states.

But simply check out Google's corporate HQ named Googleplex. And just like everything else at Google, every trivial detail counts. And the best part is, its not considered cheesy! In fact, because it is a tech company, it is geeky and proud to be so. And this is one of the many reasons why it is such an appealing organisation to belong to. Check out the reason why its called the Googleplex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex).

And talk about trivial details, check out how coolly geeky these Googlenites can become:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&z=17&t=k&msid=103763259662194171141.00000111b083b28bf007c&msa=0

Check out a photo essay of life in Googleplex here: http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/inside_google/1.html

What will it take for more companies to be like that? No, I'm not saying spending extravagent money on pool tables, swimming pools, or a T-Rex skeleton infested with flamingoes. Is it always ALL about money to become an organisation that people want to belong to, to work at?

Perhaps sometimes instead of needing to "buy" such success, it may take simple small measures to move towards such an ideal. And in our age of information technology, we are not short of literature doing just this.

I do hope someday Singapore would be home to such organisations.
Uncle T