Internal Networking: Time-Waster or Value Creator?

Turn conversations at the water cooler into long-lasting, value-adding partnerships.

Google's new campus is designed to "engineer serendipity." The environment promotes the likelihood of casual conversations for the people who work there. The interaction with colleagues you accidently bump into, Google figures, will lead to the creation of new value for the company.

If you worked at Yahoo, you recently would have been asked to give up your work-at-home sweatpants and show up at th