Margaret Heffernan

Professor of Practice, University of Bath · 2 appearances on the record.

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Margaret Heffernan is an author and Professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management. She previously produced for the BBC and served as CEO of five businesses.

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Heffernan: Competent CEOs Are Starved for Argument and Debate

“Any CEO worth their salt is starved for argument and debate. So I'm not incredibly surprised by Schmidt's response, because one of the big problems with power is that most people won't argue with you if you're in a powerful position.”

Margaret Heffernan May 12, 2023 ▶ 7:51 Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO): Innovation is managed chaos

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Heffernan: Ocean Spray rejected Pepsi buyout by 50.1% to 49.9% vote

“And at one point, Pepsi tried very hard to buy them. And of course, the company is owned by the Cranberry farmers. So this was a really passionate, passionate debate. You could never have resolved it by who cared most because everybody cared totally. And it en…”

Margaret Heffernan Oct 6, 2017 ▶ 29:35 Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: Lead, lead again

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO): Innovation is managed chaos	May 12, 2023	1m
Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: Lead, lead again	Oct 6, 2017	1m

Margaret Heffernan

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