The combination of persistence and curiosity is a very good predictor of employee success in a knowledge economy. Eric shares a story that I think gets the very heart of the innovative process. It starts with the release of Google Earth and ends with a journey into the inner workings of a cow brain. The next time you try to control where inquisitive minds might go in your organization, ask yourself if you really know what they might discover? If not, then prepare to be shocked.
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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