According to a recent op-ed by Tom Friedman, Google's hiring criteria focus strongly on the demonstration of soft skills such as "leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn"...the sense of responsibility to step in when needed and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others'... recognizing that in order to be "an effective leader in this environment you have to be willing to relinquish power.”
Many of these skills form the basis of good early childhood pedagogy and it may help if early childhood education beliefs and practices were extended up into the higher grades in schools rather than allowing a test-driven curriculum filter down into early childhood classrooms.
To read the entire piece by Friedman go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=1