How Google Manages Talent

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🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.8	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.3	Today we're talking with Eric Schmidt,
0:36.4	Google's former CEO and current executive chairman,
0:39.3	and Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's former SVP of products.
0:43.2	Together they are the authors of the new book,
0:45.2	How Google Works.
0:46.6	Gentlemen, thank you both for talking with us today.
0:49.1	Thank you very much for having us.
0:50.3	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:51.8	I thought we could just start by talking about the really focusing on the hiring and
0:55.8	talent piece of it, which is so much of the book.
0:58.2	But I wanted just to start by asking you guys, I know that so much of Google's talent procedures have been obsessed over in the
1:04.4	business press. I thought I would start by asking you to tell something
1:07.4	surprising you think, something that might surprise people to find out about
1:11.4	how Google approaches talent and hiring?
1:14.0	I think that there's been this sort of focus on the metrics,
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