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Pay Unfairly is chapter 10 of Laszlo Bock’s Work Rules! Ever provocative this book shares the thinking behind Google’s people strategy. What is remarkable is that it is 24 times harder to get a job at Google than to get a place at Harvard University. And three million people a year apply for jobs there. Bock is Google’s senior vice president of people operations. The most important rule is to hire great people and people who are better at your job than you are. He devotes two chapters to this subject. Later on we get to the Pay Unfairly chapter where Bock offers four pieces of advice: -          Swallow hard and pay unfairly. Have wide variations in pay the reflect the power law distribution of performance -          Celebrate accomplishment not compensation -          Make it easy to spread the love -          Reward thoughtful failure. Bock is a very smart man and knows that many of his readers will simply not believe that rules that work for hoodie wearing millionai