Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at the Chinese University in Hong Kong on November 4, 2013.
Alan: I hold Google in high regard.
That said, "nothing is perfect" nor "should" be.
Indeed, insistence that human behavior "should" be "perfect" is the likely Root of Evil - at least the root of political and religious evil. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html)
An anecdote...
Following graduation from Notre Dame, a dear relative received a job offer from Google.
In addition to the glowing job description, B's assignment required him to live in Chicago, a city much to his liking.
Within a month however, B tendered his resignation, having quickly discovered that Google misrepresented his duties, requiring him - unexpectedly - to labor as a corporate hit man. His sole assignment was cost-benefit analysis of fellow employees, thus enabling Google to discharge anyone deemed inadequately profitable.
B does not dispute the central role played by "cost-benefit analysis" in successful capitalist enterprise but was disheartened that Google's deception resulted in employment that was not only distasteful but repulsive.
That said, the following interview offers keen insight into smart, inspired corporate leadership committed to learning lessons and sharing findings with institutional counterparts.
A Conversation With Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were looking for someone to run their fledgling Internet start-up, they chose Eric Schmidt. The Bell Labs alum took the reins at Google just as the company faced a major battle with Microsoft. Under Schmidt’s leadership, Google established itself as the dominant Internet search engine and a global technology giant with more than $55 billion in annual revenues. Known for its "Don’t be Evil" corporate motto, the Mountain View, Calif., company is consistently ranked as the best place to work in the United States. A conversation with Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, on fostering innovation, managing millenials and how the company is responding to privacy concerns by consumers.
Guests
Eric Schmidt
executive chairman, Google; former Chief Executive Officer (2001 - 2011); co-author with Jonathan Rosenberg of, "How Google Works" (Sept. 2014).
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Excerpted from the book HOW GOOGLE WORKS by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle. © 2014 by Google, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved.
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