This case describes how a senior vice president of Engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads high-performance engineering organizations. The case focuses on encouraging Coughran two teams of engineers to develop competitive solutions for data storage applications. It also shows how Coughran assembled an informal brain trust of managers and technical managers, who help him in his drive for 2000 people organization. This case will be relevant to those who are interested in what it takes to lead to sustainable innovation, in particular, knowledge workers like engineers. This also sheds light on how to develop leaders in the field of engineering organizations. "Hide
by Linda A. Hill, Emily A. Stecker Source: Harvard Business School 29 pages. Publication Date: Mar 04, 2010. Prod. #: 410110-PDF-ENG