How Google Works

by Eric Schmidt

At least once per year, write a review of your own performance, then read it and see if you would work for you.

OHIO acronym: Only Hold It Once. If you read the note and know what needs doing, do it right away. Otherwise you are dooming yourself to rereading it, which is 100 percent wasted time.

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”)

The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be. And when you’re there, the only way to get things done is through relationships.

For something to be innovative, it needs to be new, surprising, and radically useful.

A lack of resources forces ingenuity.

in a ship-and-iterate model, leadership’s job must be to feed the winners and starve the losers, regardless of prior investment.

says, if you are thinking big enough it is very hard to fail completely.