The age of transparency is here
One more thing from or about Google.As a sidebar to the article about Google and Microsoft and their impending clash (I posted about that here), Times writer Steve Lohr also published Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s “What is really different now?” Among the gems is this:”No falsehood can last. Everything can be and usually is checked, even as you are saying it. I remember during our I.P.O., a Google executive made a statement about the Sarbanes-Oxley rules that didn’t make sense to me. I checked the regulations while he was speaking and learned immediately that he was wrong. While I was clearly empowered by the instant information I had in front of me, I also faced a moral dilemma: correct and presumably embarrass him in front of his entire team or send him a private e-mail with the correction. (I chose the latter … was I wrong?)”Don’t limit yourself to this singular piece of wisdom. Check out the entire list of Schmidt’s “what’s different.”