Eric Schmidt's Counter-Attack to Google

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CNN's John Sutter talks with Margaret Heffernan, the CEO of five tech companies. She says Eric Schmidt is not surprised by his reaction to a team willing to challenge him. Parnasarin: Not every CEO is cut out for this kind of insubordination. But the most innovative ones welcome it.

Google doesn’t tell its employees how to innovate; it manages their inventive chaos. Their secret? Mix free-flowing ideas with disciplined decision-making.

In this week's All-Star Episode, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt shares his strategies to manage chaos. CEO of Google from 2001-2015, and now the co-founder of Schmidt Futures, Schmidt reveals the hidden secret in Google’s famous “20% time” policy, their approach to hiring smart creatives, and the parallels between leading Google and piloting small airplanes. Plus, the decision he made to support a crazy idea that he was certain would bankrupt the company.

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