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Schmidt: Companies must roll back 'bring your whole self to work'
“So now what has happened is there's been this view that you should bring your whole self to work. And now we're being forced to crawl that back because your whole self is maybe not what we want in work.”
Eric Schmidt: Companies are walking back 'bring your whole self to work'
“So now what has happened is there's been this view that you should bring your whole self to work, and now we're being forced to crawl that back because your whole self is maybe not what we want in work.”
Schmidt: Startups must hire the smartest people and tolerate difficult personalities
“Hire the smartest people you possibly can and put up with them, right? And we all understand what that means, right? But you really need them for competitive advantage.”
Schmidt: 80% of management turns over in a corporate turnaround
“The number is 80% of the management team will turn over in a turnaround.”
Schmidt: Leaders have six to nine months to change company culture
“The other thing I learned, and this is from Lou Gerstner, Who said, who had written a whole book on this, and his IBM turnaround, he said, you only have six to nine months to change the culture of a company before you're stuck with it.”
Schmidt: Cross-functional 'glue people' add little value and are unnecessary
“And glue people are very nice people who sit between functions and help either side, but don't themselves add a lot of value. And I thought, these are nice people, but we don't really need them. We can have these groups talking directly.”
Schmidt: Startups must hire the smartest people and tolerate them
“The answer is simple. Hire the smartest people you possibly can and put up with them. Right. And we all understand what that means. Right. But you really need them for competitive advantage.”
Schmidt feared AdWords auction would bankrupt Google, imposing Friday cash limits
“I was absolutely convinced that this would bankrupt the company. And I was so convinced that I ordered a cash restriction period Where the only thing that you could do was spend money on Friday mornings at 10. You had to come to my office and you had to convin…”
Schmidt: Google 20% time served as a check on engineering managers' power
“What it really served as Was a check and balance on the power of the engineering management over the subject. So if an employee is under pressure, the manager says, you've got to work harder. You've got to give me everything you have. That employee can legitim…”
Schmidt: 80% of management turns over during corporate turnarounds
“The number is 80% of the management team will turn over in a turnaround.”
Schmidt: Novell presented different revenue numbers on his first day as CEO
“The reality, of course, hit on the first day, because I was presented with different numbers for revenue for the quarter than I'd been told when I was interviewing.”
Schmidt: Google made the decision to acquire YouTube in about 10 days
“We made the decision to purchase YouTube in about 10 days, right? Incredibly historic decision because we were ready.”
Schmidt: Persistence and curiosity are the top predictors of knowledge worker success
“Persistence is the single biggest predictor of future success, and so we would look for persistence. And the second thing was curiosity. What do you care about? The combination of persistence and curiosity is a very good predictor of employee success in a know…”
Schmidt: Shared CEO office with Google engineer until IPO
“So with the engineering story is that we stayed, we actually liked each other so much that he stayed as my office mate until we were a public company where I couldn't violate the various SEC laws.”
Schmidt: Google's early culture and perks mirrored Stanford Graduate School
“I think a fair statement is that the founders built the company in the image of what they saw at the Stanford Graduate School.”
Schmidt: Many Google AI, search, and maps initiatives came from 20% time
“Many, many initiatives in the company have come out of 20% time ideas. Much of the mapping work, many of the search ideas, many of the advertising Many of now the AI work have come from people working and practicing in new areas.”