Alphabet Learns That Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC — Backchannel

Alphabet Learns That Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC — Backchannel: Page’s blog post a year ago announcing Alphabet shocked not only some of Google’s closest followers, but also many top Googlers. Months in the making, the plan to shift Google from a single enterprise to a hydra-structured holding company was concocted by a very small group of executives, operating at a level of stealth unusual even for the normally secretive firm