Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American software engineer,
businessman, as well as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. He served as
Google CEO from 2001-2011. In a video interview titled Eric Schmidt on business
culture, technology, and social issues. This interview gave the listener a
great insight in the culture of Google and the description of Google being a
self-managed company, due to their unique hiring practices. It is impressive to
see uniqueness way on which Google had created an effective approach to hiring
and maintaining the best and brightest employees. In my on professional opinion
this a great way to ensure the company is hiring quality and talented
employees. “Excellence
is achieved by organizations that push risk taking and decision making down to
the lowest possible level” (Brown, 2011, p. 224). This type of method takes
courage and determination to implement this type leadership. As leaders we must
be ready to be face with the high demands of the industry and be prepare to
make those complicated decisions. Additionally, leaders must take in to
consideration the risk versus the reward of this method of hiring, since this
could backfire. In the Navy we constantly take calculate risk in the
recruitment of new officers. The
applications go stringent process and not all applicant make it through the
programs. This video is very useful and will provide a different point of view
from a very successful person.
REFERENCES:
Brown, D. R. (2011). An experiential approach to organization
development (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
McKinsey & Company (May, 2011). Eric Schmidt on business
culture, technology, and social issues. Retrieved from http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/eric_schmidt_on_business_culture_technology_and_social_issues
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