Redefining the CEO Agenda for the 21st Century - Umair Haque - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Dec 09
  

  John North

  Google CSR responsible leadership

• 11 Nov 08
  

  James Stuart

  google strategy

• 09 Aug 08
  

  Eapen thomas

  Or consider what Eric Schmidt said today: that Google has a "moral imperative" to help publishers benefit from advertising. That's a living example of one of the principles we've discussed - good beats evil - being used to make real-world strategic decisions.\n\nHow many other CEOs have mentioned the words "moral imperative" recently? Almost none. The results of a search on that phrase related to CEOs, for example, are almost all Eric Schmidt - and I stopped counting after ten pages of results. More tellingly, the inverse search - CEOs who aren't Eric Schmidt talking about a moral imperative - yields almost no meaningful results.\n\nCan you imagine Steve Ballmer, Steve Case, Chuck Prince, Michael Eisner, Rupert Murdoch, or Jeff Immelt talking about a "moral imperative"? It's about as likely as Elvis coming back from the beyond. Why don't they? Because orthodox management and strategy have given them tools and concepts built for an industrial era. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the companies they run (or ran) are falling squarely into strategy decay.\n\nAnd that's how Google ends up in a league of it's own. Schmidt's quote is important because it's a vivid demonstration of Google having the courage to question business as usual - in fact, this time, Schimdt is challenging perhaps the foundational orthodoxy of industrial-era business.\n\nGreed is good, right? Wrong. In fact, good is good: today, it's good that can be deeply strategic, and powerfully profitable.\n\nThink about that for a second.\n\nNo - Google doesn't always get it right, it doesn't always do no evil, and doing good isn't the only new principle of management (here's another one). In the coming days, we'll discuss Google's weaknesses. But Google - to resort to an inelegant turn of phrase - gets it.\n\nI discuss Google often because I think it just might be the first real 21st century business: a company with a radically different set of principles wired into it's DNA. Larry, Sergey, and Eric, I think, understand intuitively that the tools and c

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  • Or consider what Eric Schmidt said today: that Google has a "moral imperative" to help publishers benefit from advertising. That's a living example of one of the principles we've discussed - good beats evil - being used to make real-world strategic decisions.

      

    How many other CEOs have mentioned the words "moral imperative" recently? Almost none. The results of a search on that phrase related to CEOs, for example, are almost all Eric Schmidt - and I stopped counting after ten pages of results. More tellingly, the inverse search - CEOs who aren't Eric Schmidt talking about a moral imperative - yields almost no meaningful results.
  • Can you imagine Steve Ballmer, Steve Case, Chuck Prince, Michael Eisner, Rupert Murdoch, or Jeff Immelt talking about a "moral imperative"? It's about as likely as Elvis coming back from the beyond. Why don't they? Because orthodox management and strategy have given them tools and concepts built for an industrial era. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the companies they run (or ran) are falling squarely into strategy decay.
• 06 Aug 08
  

  Claudia Cabal

  CEO Agenda Havard Business Review

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Takuya Homma

  google's has been able to be like this since it has built a amazingly profitable system which flows money into its financial chart every term without too much caring about it. the question is whether normal companies and their CEO can be like google and schmidt??

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  • Because orthodox management and strategy have given them tools and concepts built for an industrial

  • And that's how Google ends up in a league of it's own. Schmidt's quote is important because it's a vivid demonstration of Google having the courage to question business as usual - in fact, this time, Schimdt is challenging perhaps the foundational orthodoxy of industrial-era business.

      

  • I discuss Google often because I think it just might be the first real 21st century business: a company with a radically different set of principles wired into it's DNA. Larry, Sergey, and Eric, I think, understand intuitively that the tools and concepts of orthodox strategy and management are failing today's boardroom - and, even better, they're defining a new CEO agenda for it.

      

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• 15 Jun 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  How many other CEOs have mentioned the words "moral imperative" recently? Almost none. The results of a search on that phrase related to CEOs, for example, are almost all Eric Schmidt - and I stopped counting after ten pages of results

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