Each of us, at some time in our career, dreamed of "designing" the perfect boss. You know what I mean. Type in the specifications and out would come exactly who you needed to get your job done with none of the flaws we've all tolerated in mere mortals. The question is "what would you want in a boss?"
Google laid down this challenge, after years of a low interference management style where highly intelligent people with significant expertise reported to equally intelligent people with even greater expertise. The "people operations," aka HR heads, decided it was time to re-evaluate the strategy as well as address a need
to enhance and improve the quality of the leaders at the Googleplex. Project Oxygen was born.