A former Google exec explains why bosses at the company can't fire, hire, or promote their employees

Sam Rega/Business Insider Being a manager at Google is a bit different from being a manager anywhere else. That's because the company makes nearly all decisions by consensus, explains Kim Scott, the bestselling author of "Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity." Scott once led Adsense and YouTube at Google. These days, the company goes to extreme lengths to make sure no one working at Google tells anyone outside the company anything about what goes on there. But in an int...