Leadership lessons from the tech gurus
By Binu Paul, SiliconIndia   |   Friday, 29 July 2011, 02:53 IST   |    12 Comments
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4. Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt has been running the show at Google, the internet giant whose stock price has gone from $85 to $581 ever since it went public in 2004. He values the worth of innovative ideas and that is the most significant management lesson he preaches. Being the CEO of the world internet leader, Eric Schmidt was keen on providing adequate room for the Googlers to throw out their ideas and he says "One of our not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a company wide suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer app." He also says that the most important characteristic of an entrepreneur should be that "he is going to do it whether you give him permission or not."

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