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Google's Eric Schmidt — Innovation is managed chaos
Masters of Scale
The Power of 20% Time
Many initiatives in the company have come out of 20% time ideas. It allows reasonable employees to defy unreasonable managers. This institutionalized defiance can help balance the power and keep high performing employees engaged during challenging times. 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. And that simple principle, which never really happens in practice, but it's understood, empowers the employee with both dignity, but also choices.
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