What is *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock* about?

*Work Rules!* explores Google’s innovative workplace strategies, focusing on empowering employees through data-driven decisions, transparency, and mission alignment. Laszlo Bock, Google’s former SVP of People Operations, shares practices like rewarding top performers disproportionately ("pay unfairly") and fostering autonomy. The book emphasizes building trust, decentralizing authority, and prioritizing culture to drive innovation and productivity.

Who should read *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock*?

HR professionals, managers, and leaders seeking to transform organizational culture will benefit most. It’s also valuable for entrepreneurs aiming to replicate Google’s success in hiring, retention, and fostering creativity. The book appeals to those interested in data-driven HR and nontraditional management approaches.

Is *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock* worth reading?

Yes, for its actionable insights into creating high-performing teams and cultures. Bock combines academic research, real-world examples, and Google’s experiments (like peer feedback systems and nudges) to offer a blueprint for modern workplaces. It’s particularly useful for adapting to hybrid work models.

What are the main ideas in *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock*?

Key concepts include: - **Culture as a foundation**: Define mission, transparency, and employee voice - **Data over hierarchy**: Use metrics instead of managerial opinions for decisions - **Empowerment**: Treat employees as founders, not resources - **Reward thoughtfully**: Compensate top performers disproportionately and celebrate failures that drive learning

How does *Work Rules!* suggest improving workplace culture?

Bock advocates: - Eliminating status symbols (e.g., executive perks) to reduce hierarchy - Encouraging peer-to-peer feedback and transparent communication - Aligning daily tasks with organizational mission to foster purpose

What is the “pay unfairly” concept in *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock*?

This principle justifies significant pay differences for employees in similar roles, reflecting performance disparities. Bock argues top contributors drive disproportionate value, so compensation should mirror this "power law" distribution. Metrics, not managerial bias, determine rewards.

How does *Work Rules!* address employee onboarding?

Google’s onboarding includes: - Pairing new hires with peer buddies - Monthly check-ins for six months to address challenges - Encouraging questions, risk-taking, and open feedback from day one

What role does transparency play in *Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock*?

Transparency builds trust and empowers employees. Google shares nearly all internal data (e.g., strategy documents, performance metrics) company-wide. This reduces secrecy, encourages collaboration, and aligns teams with organizational goals.

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Capítulo 1

Google's Revolutionary Workplace: Where Freedom Meets Results

What if your workplace trusted you completely, eliminated traditional management hierarchy, and still outperformed nearly every competitor? This isn't a utopian fantasy but the reality at Google, where unconventional people practices have created one of the world's most valuable companies. In "Work Rules," Laszlo Bock-Google's former Senior Vice President of People Operations-reveals the company's revolutionary approach to creating an environment where talented people thrive. The book has become required reading for executives worldwide, with Sheryl Sandberg calling it "a compelling journey through the company's unique approach to culture, talent and leadership." Even more remarkably, Google achieved this while maintaining profitability that outpaces most Fortune 500 companies. The principles Bock shares have helped Google consistently rank as the #1 Best Company to Work For across multiple countries, while receiving over 2 million job applications annually. What makes this book particularly valuable is that these practices aren't just for tech giants-they've been proven effective across industries from manufacturing to healthcare.

Capítulo 2

The Founder Mindset: Taking Ownership of Your Environment

Google's story begins with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whose backgrounds profoundly influenced their vision. Larry's grandfather was an autoworker who carried weapons to protect himself from his employer, while Sergey's family fled Soviet anti-Semitism. Both benefited from Montessori education, which encouraged questioning authority and independent thinking. When they created Google, they weren't just building a search engine-they were crafting a fundamentally different kind of workplace. Their IPO prospectus boldly stated "Googlers are everything" and promised unusual benefits, significant employee ownership, and ongoing improvements to the work environment. This wasn't revolutionary rhetoric; it was a commitment they've kept for decades. What makes Google special isn't just the founders' vision, but how they deliberately left space for others to act as founders too. From early employees like Susan Wojcicki (who rented her garage to Larry and Sergey) to engineers who created projects like a Cherokee language interface, Google created a culture where anyone could build something meaningful. This reveals the first key lesson: anyone can be a founder of their team or culture, regardless of title or tenure. It's not about literal ownership but attitude-taking responsibility for your environment even when it's not in your job description. Think about what you want your team's origin story to be. What values do you want to embody? What problems do you want to solve? By adopting a founder mindset, you create space for others to build alongside you. As Bock puts it: "One day your team will have an origin story-think about what you want it to be and what you want to stand for."

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Capítulo 3

Culture: The Three Pillars of Google's Success

Google's culture appears playfully superficial with slides, beanbags, and free food, but these visible artifacts are merely the surface of something much deeper. While "fun" is the most common word Googlers use to describe their workplace, this playfulness enables unguarded exploration rather than defining the company. The true foundation of Google's culture rests on three pillars: mission, transparency, and voice. Google's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" stands apart from typical corporate missions by focusing on a moral rather than business goal. Unlike missions mentioning profits or customers, Google's creates meaning and drives constant innovation since it can never truly be completed. This mission has pushed Google into unexpected areas like Street View, which allows billions to virtually visit places from the Arc de Triomphe to Mt. Everest base camp. Research by Wharton professor Adam Grant shows that connecting workers with those they help increases motivation dramatically-fundraisers who met scholarship recipients increased their results by 400%. Everyone seeks meaning in their work, whether slicing fish or writing code, with roughly one-third of people across all professions viewing their work as a calling rather than just a job. Transparency forms the second cornerstone, embodied by the phrase "default to open." Unlike typical software companies where engineers access only their product's code, Google gives new engineers access to almost the entire codebase on day one. At weekly TGIF all-hands meetings, Larry and Sergey host thirty-minute Q&A sessions where any Googler can ask anything-from trivial questions about attire to serious concerns about privacy or security. Voice, the third cornerstone, means giving employees genuine input in how the company operates. Many of Google's people practices originate from employees themselves, like when a Googler pointed out the tax inequality for same-sex couples receiving health benefits. VP of Benefits Yvonne Agyei responded simply, "You're right," and implemented a policy providing extra payments to cover the additional income tax-making Google one of the first major companies to do so globally. These principles were tested with operations in China, where search engines were required to censor results-directly conflicting with Google's mission. After extensive company-wide debate through management meetings, TGIFs, and email threads involving thousands of Googlers, the company decided in 2010 that it could not continue censoring results. Rather than abandoning Chinese users entirely, Google redirected visitors to their Hong Kong-based site, which operated under different regulations.

Capítulo 4

Hiring: Finding Needles in a Very Big Haystack

Hiring is the most critical people activity in any organization. When building a team, you can either buy top talent (like the Yankees with their $229 million payroll) or try to develop average performers into stars. While buying top talent works in baseball where performance is observable and standardized, it's much harder in business where employee performance isn't transparent. Google's growth was constrained not by money but by finding exceptional talent. Unlike the Yankees who could simply buy the best, Google often paid below-market salaries-as late as 2010, new hires typically took significant pay cuts, sometimes 50% or more. The solution was to fundamentally rethink hiring with two key principles: hire more slowly and only hire people better than yourself. This approach meant sifting through millions of applications annually to hire just 0.25% of applicants (making Google about 25 times more selective than Harvard). Google discovered that pedigree matters far less than accomplishment. They now prefer state school graduates at the top of their class over average Ivy League graduates, and some of their best performers never attended college at all. The key isn't just intelligence-Google specifically screens for attributes like humility and conscientiousness, recognizing that being a star in one environment doesn't guarantee success in another. This investment in recruiting pays off tremendously. As Alan Eustace puts it: "A top-notch engineer is worth three hundred times or more than an average engineer." Exceptional hires like Jeff Dean, Salar Kamangar, and Diane Tang have created billions in value through their innovations. Google's early recruiting efforts were highly inefficient. Traditional tactics like Monster.com job postings generated thousands of applications for each successful hire. To improve quality, Google built systems to find "backdoor references"-their applicant tracking system would automatically identify Googlers who might know candidates from school or previous employers, soliciting unfiltered feedback about the candidate's true performance. Employee referrals were Google's best source of candidates for many years, accounting for more than half of all hires. When referral rates began declining in 2009, Google doubled the referral bonus from $2,000 to $4,000-with zero impact. Surprisingly, Googlers weren't motivated by the money but by intrinsic factors: they genuinely loved working at Google and wanted friends to share the experience. The real problem was poor referral management-less than 5% of referred candidates were hired, frustrating employees who referred good people. Google responded by reducing interview rounds and creating a white-glove service for referrals, with 48-hour response times and weekly updates to referring employees.

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Capítulo 5

The Science of Interviewing: Don't Trust Your Gut

Most interviews are fundamentally flawed because interviewers form impressions within seconds and spend the rest of the time seeking confirmation of their initial judgment. Research shows judgments made in the first ten seconds of an interview can predict the outcome, but these snap judgments are useless for actual assessment. Schmidt and Hunter's meta-analysis of 85 years of hiring research revealed that structured interviews (26% predictive of performance) are as effective as cognitive ability tests. These come in two forms: behavioral interviews ("Tell me about a time...") and situational interviews ("What would you do if..."). Google uses structured interviews because they're fair, predictive, and create better experiences for both candidates and interviewers. To facilitate this, they developed qDroid-an internal tool that generates interview guides with validated questions tailored to specific jobs and attributes. Google discovered four key attributes that predict success beyond technical skills: 1. General Cognitive Ability: Smart people who learn and adapt to new situations, demonstrated through problem-solving rather than credentials. 2. Leadership: Specifically "emergent leadership" where individuals step up when needed and recede when their skills are no longer required. Google values those who emphasize "we" over "I." 3. "Googleyness": Attributes including enjoyment of fun, intellectual humility, conscientiousness, comfort with ambiguity, and evidence of taking interesting life paths. 4. Role-Related Knowledge: Surprisingly the least important attribute, as Google believes curious, open-minded people will figure things out and create novel solutions rather than replicate past approaches. Google continuously improves its hiring process through data analysis. The company runs a Revisit Program that uses algorithms to identify potentially overlooked candidates. The system extracts keywords from successful employees' resumes, weights them based on successful versus unsuccessful applications, and flags rejected candidates with high scores for reconsideration. In 2010, this process led to 150 hires from 10,000 revisited applications out of 300,000 rejected resumes-a 1.5% yield that's six times better than Google's overall hiring yield of 0.25%.

Capítulo 6

Letting the Inmates Run the Asylum: The Power of Employee Freedom

Google maintains a deep skepticism not of managers themselves, but of power and how it can be abused. Traditional managers control pay, promotions, workload, and employment status-creating potential for abuse that permeates our culture and anxieties about toxic bosses. To create an environment where employees feel and act like owners, Google removes signifiers of power and status. The company maintains only four meaningful levels: individual contributor, manager, director, and vice president (with a parallel track for technical contributors). Even subtle distinctions like word order in titles caused fixation, so they were eliminated. Google also removes other hierarchy reinforcers: executives receive the same benefits and perquisites as new hires with no executive dining rooms, parking spots, or pensions. When introducing programs like deferred compensation, they're made available to everyone rather than just executives, and European car allowances are offered to all employees rather than just senior staff. Google relies on data rather than managerial opinion to make decisions, transforming managers from providers of intuition to facilitators searching for truth. This approach helps avoid politicking and frees executives to focus on harder-to-quantify issues. The company actively combats sample bias through "myth busting"-testing assumptions with data and sharing findings widely. For example, when engineers complained about poor performers not being addressed, People Operations showed the data behind performance management and explained privacy constraints. Similarly, when promotion myths arose (like needing senior advocates or working in "sexier" product areas), Brian Ong and Janet Cho shared comprehensive promotion data showing these beliefs were false. Google gives employees uncommon freedom to shape their work through "20 percent time," inspired by 3M's 65-year-old "15 percent time" program. While actual utilization varies (averaging around 10% when last measured), the concept is powerful-not as a formal program but as an outlet for the brightest, most persistent employees. Googlers don't just create products; they shape company operations too. When engineers were given anonymous performance data, they redesigned the bonus system to be more equitable, calculating bonuses from median salaries rather than actual salaries to eliminate negotiation advantages. The annual Googlegeist survey, with 90% participation, allows employees to confidentially evaluate the company. Results are shared transparently, and managers receive personalized "MyGeist" reports. Rather than measuring vague "engagement," Googlegeist focuses on innovation, execution, and retention. When scores fall below 70% favorable on key metrics, teams intervene to improve conditions.

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Capítulo 7

Performance Management: Breaking Free from Bureaucracy

Performance management systems have largely become bureaucratic processes that managers, employees, and even HR departments universally despise. Most organizations have reduced performance management to prescribed administrative steps disconnected from day-to-day management, with 58% of HR professionals grading their own systems C or worse. Even at Google, performance management satisfaction was low (55% favorable), though still better than industry averages. Google's system begins with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), introduced by board member John Doerr from Intel. OKRs require specific, measurable, verifiable results that contribute to larger objectives, balancing quality and efficiency metrics. Google deliberately sets ambitious goals, knowing not all will be achieved-as Larry Page says, "If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you'll still achieve something remarkable." Everyone's OKRs are visible company-wide, promoting transparency and alignment without excessive cascading of goals. Until 2013, Google used a 41-point rating scale (1.0-5.0) quarterly, with decimal precision creating effectively 4,001 possible ratings. Despite this precision, managers changed pay outcomes based on ratings two-thirds of the time, rendering the system inefficient. Performance reviews consumed up to 24 weeks annually. After extensive experimentation in 2013, Google shifted to semi-annual reviews and a 5-point scale (needs improvement to superb). Teams that maintained five categories showed better differentiation than those who subdivided further. The simpler system proved equally fair while providing more meaningful feedback. Calibration is the soul of Google's performance assessment system, making it twice as favorable among employees compared to other companies' systems. Rather than letting individual managers determine ratings alone, groups of managers review all employee ratings together. This collective approach removes pressure to inflate ratings, ensures consistent performance standards across teams, diminishes bias by requiring managers to justify decisions to peers, and increases perceived fairness. Google separates performance evaluation from development conversations, a critical distinction most companies miss. When these discussions happen simultaneously, employees focus on extrinsic rewards (ratings, raises) rather than growth, shutting down intrinsic motivation and learning. Edward Deci's research shows that introducing external rewards can decrease intrinsic motivation by 20-37%. At Google, annual reviews occur in November, pay discussions a month later, and stock grants six months after that. This separation prevents the dynamic where employees argue for better ratings (which is rational when ratings directly impact compensation) and allows development to be an ongoing dialogue rather than a year-end surprise.

Capítulo 8

The Two Tails: Managing Your Best and Worst Performers

Your team's performance follows a distribution with extremes at both ends-the "tails." While most companies use a normal distribution model (bell curve) for managing people, human performance actually follows a power law distribution where a small elite group dominates through massive performance. Organizations typically fire the bottom performers and reward the top ones, but Google takes a different approach. They identify the bottom 5% not to fire them, but to help them improve through training, coaching, or finding a better role fit. This "compassionate pragmatism" often transforms poor performers into average contributors-a significant improvement that strengthens the entire team. Rather than following the "up or out" model popularized by Jack Welch at GE, Google identifies the bottom 5% of performers not to terminate them but to help them grow. They recognize that poor performance usually stems from fixable skill gaps or motivation issues, not incompetence. When someone struggles, they first offer training and coaching. If that doesn't work, they help them find another role at Google where they often improve to average levels-turning someone from the bottom 5% into a middle-of-the-pack contributor who outperforms many others. While the lowest performers need help, the top performers deserve close study. Project Oxygen, one of Google's People and Innovation Lab (PiLab) initiatives, revealed that teams with the best managers performed 5-18% better across various metrics. Through analysis of manager feedback and double-blind interviews, they identified eight behaviors that distinguish great managers: 1. Being a good coach 2. Empowering without micromanaging 3. Showing interest in team members' wellbeing 4. Being results-oriented 5. Communicating effectively 6. Helping with career development 7. Having clear vision 8. Possessing relevant technical skills To make these findings actionable, Google created specific guidance for each attribute and implemented a semiannual Upward Feedback Survey where teams anonymously evaluate managers on these behaviors. The survey functions as a checklist for good management, with results shared with managers for development purposes only-not affecting their compensation or ratings.

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Capítulo 9

Pay Unfairly: Rewarding Your Best People

Most companies inadvertently encourage their best performers to quit through misguided compensation systems that limit pay ranges in the name of "fairness." The truth is that performance doesn't follow a normal distribution but rather a power law distribution-meaning top performers create dramatically more value than average ones. Studies show that the top 1% of workers generate ten times the average output, and the top 5% more than four times the average. At Google, two people doing the same work can have a hundred-fold difference in impact and rewards, with compensation varying by 300-500% at almost any level. This approach requires clearly understanding each person's true impact and having managers who can justify these differences. True fairness means paying commensurate with contribution, not ensuring everyone makes roughly the same amount. Despite good intentions, Google's Founders' Awards program-designed to reward extraordinary team accomplishments with substantial stock grants worth millions-actually made Googlers less happy. The program inadvertently created divisions: non-technical staff felt excluded since most winners were engineers, many technical people viewed awards as unattainable, and there were always contentious debates about who deserved inclusion. Even winners were sometimes disappointed when receiving less than expected, while those who received large awards often tried to transfer to new projects afterward. The program failed tests of both distributive justice (fair outcomes) and procedural justice (fair processes), teaching Google that how rewards are determined is as important as their size. Google created "gThanks," a simple tool allowing employees to publicly recognize colleagues' work through kudos that can be shared via Google+. This system produced a 460% increase in recognition compared to the previous method. Additionally, any Googler can give anyone else a $175 cash award without management approval-a system that has rarely been abused over a decade. Google emphasizes rewarding calculated risk-taking even when it fails. The Google Wave project exemplifies this approach-despite being "Google's biggest product launch in recent memory" with innovative features like live typing, platform capabilities, open source code, and automated "robots," the product ultimately failed after about a year. Rather than penalizing the team who had foregone regular Google compensation for the chance at larger rewards, Google ensured they weren't financially hurt.

Capítulo 10

Nudging: The Power of Small Environmental Changes

We often believe we understand ourselves, but Daniel Kahneman explains we have two brains: one slow and rational, the other fast and intuitive-with the latter dominating our decisions. Our perception is deeply flawed: experiments show we value $5 differently depending on context, and our vision is "99.9 percent garbage" though our brains fill the gaps. We're constantly influenced by environmental cues we don't consciously register. At Google, nudges work best when they're timely, relevant, and simple to implement. The company's "Optimize Your Life" program demonstrates this approach. One example involved a dysfunctional leadership team where two simple survey questions ("Did this person help me when I reached out?" and "Did this person involve me when appropriate?") transformed team dynamics. By anonymously sharing rankings, collaboration improved from 70% to 90% favorable over eight quarters without direct intervention. Google's most impressive nudge targeted new employee onboarding. Managers received a simple five-step checklist before a new hire's first day: discuss roles and responsibilities, assign a peer buddy, help build a social network, schedule monthly check-ins, and encourage open dialogue. This single email made new hires fully effective 25% faster-saving an entire month of learning time. Bock examines research showing dramatic wealth differences among people with identical lifetime incomes. Professors Venti and Wise discovered that within each income decile, the wealthiest households accumulated up to thirty times more money than the least wealthy-not due to investment skill or inheritance, but simply because "some people save while young, others do not." At Google, a simple email nudge increased average retirement savings rates from 8.7% to 11.5%, potentially adding $262,000 to each employee's retirement fund. Google's experiments with nudging healthier eating habits yielded remarkable results. In the Boulder office, simply placing candy in opaque containers (while still labeled) reduced calorie consumption from candy by 30% and fat consumption by 40%. In New York, the same approach prevented 3.1 million calories of consumption-equivalent to 885 pounds of potential weight gain.

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What You Can Do Starting Tomorrow

While Google receives outsized attention for its practices, many of its fundamental ideas aren't groundbreaking-they simply reflect a belief that people are fundamentally good. Too many organizations build bureaucracies based on the assumption that people can't be trusted, following management philosophies dating back to Frederick Taylor, who told Congress workers were "too feeble-minded to think for themselves." This book presents an alternative: high-freedom companies that treat employees with dignity and voice are more resilient and better sustain success. Any team can adopt Google's principles, regardless of company size or industry: 1. Give your work meaning. Work consumes at least one-third of your life and should be more than just a paycheck. Even small connections to the beneficiaries of your work improve both productivity and happiness. 2. Trust your people. If you believe humans are fundamentally good, act accordingly by being transparent and giving employees a voice. Start small-even a suggestion box can feel revolutionary in a traditionally opaque environment. 3. Hire only people who are better than you. Organizations often prioritize filling jobs quickly over hiring the best people, but this is a critical error. A bad hire is toxic, dragging down performance, morale, and energy of those around them. 4. Don't confuse development with managing performance. Even successful people struggle to learn because confronting weaknesses is unpleasant. When criticism carries consequences, people become defensive rather than open to growth. 5. Focus on the two tails. Study your best performers closely-not just generalists but specialists who excel in specific areas. Use them as both exemplars and teachers, creating checklists from their methods and enlisting them as faculty. 6. Be frugal and generous. Most meaningful employee benefits cost nothing-bringing services in-house, organizing discussions, creating opportunities for connection. Save significant financial resources for life's most critical moments of tragedy and joy. 7. Pay unfairly. Performance follows a power law distribution in most jobs-90% of value comes from the top 10% of employees. Your best people might be worth 50% more than average performers or fifty times more. 8. Nudge. Small environmental changes can dramatically impact behavior. Arrange physical spaces to encourage desired behaviors: remove cubicle walls for collaboration, place healthy snacks at eye level, and share positive data to inspire more positive actions. 9. Manage the rising expectations. Prepare for occasional missteps when implementing changes. Tell people you'll be experimenting with new ideas before you start, which transforms them from critics to supporters. 10. Enjoy! And then go back to No. 1 and start again. Like Larry and Sergey, you can be a founder by choosing how you interact with others, design your workspace, and lead-regardless of your position. Building a great culture requires constant learning and renewal. Start with one idea, learn from it, refine, and try again. A great environment becomes self-reinforcing as all efforts support each other, creating an organization that's creative, fun, hardworking and productive.

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Temas principais em Um Novo Jeito de Trabalhar

data-driven management
radical transparency
hiring excellence
employee empowerment
mission-driven culture

Citações de Um Novo Jeito de Trabalhar

Googlers are everything.
Default to open.
You're right.
Hire more slowly and only hire people better than yourself.
A top-notch engineer is worth three hundred times or more than an average engineer.

Personagens de Um Novo Jeito de Trabalhar

Laszlo BockAuthor and former SVP of People Operations
Susan WojcickiEarly employee who rented her garage to founders
Yvonne AgyeiVP of Benefits who addressed tax inequality

Sobre o Autor

Laszlo Bock, autor do best-seller Um Novo Jeito de Trabalhar: O que o Google faz de diferente para ser uma das empresas mais desejadas do mundo, é um renomado inovador de RH e especialista em liderança baseada em dados. Nascido na Romênia, filho de pais húngaros e criado nos EUA, Bock revolucionou a cultura do ambiente de trabalho como Vice-Presidente Sênior de Operações de Pessoas do Google, onde foi pioneiro em people analytics e supervisionou a transformação da empresa em uma das principais empregadoras globais, honrada mais de 150 vezes.

Seu livro destila estratégias acionáveis para promover equipes de alto desempenho, misturando rigor operacional com ciência comportamental — temas enraizados em seu MBA em Yale, sua experiência de consultoria na McKinsey e cargos de liderança na GE e na Humu, sua startup de RH impulsionada por IA.

Palestrante frequente em veículos como The New York Times, Wall Street Journal e plataformas TED, o trabalho de Bock foi traduzido para mais de 25 idiomas, vendendo mais de 750.000 cópias em todo o mundo. Ele direciona 100% dos lucros do livro para instituições de caridade que apoiam imigrantes, educação e veteranos.

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