Technology Executives and Authors
Eric Schmidt served as CEO and executive chairman of Google, Jonathan Rosenberg was Senior Vice President of Products, and Alan Eagle led executive communications at the company. Together they authored How Google Works, drawing on their combined experience to reveal the management principles behind one of the world's most innovative organisations.
by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
The authors, all Google veterans, distill the coaching philosophy of Bill Campbell - the former football coach who mentored Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Bezos - based on interviews with 80 people who knew him. They argue that the best operational leaders in tech ran on trust, psychological safety, and team-first decision-making, and that Campbell's people-centric coaching explains much of the trillion dollars in market value he helped create.
The books Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson portrays Jobs as a study in contradictions - visionary and cruel, obsessive and brilliant. His core thesis: Jobs' relentless pursuit of perfection and control over end-to-end products reshaped entire industries.
by Ben Horowitz
Horowitz shares hard-won lessons from running a startup through near-death crises. There is no formula, leadership means making impossible decisions when there are no good options.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied companies that sustained exceptional performance for decades. The key: preserve a core ideology while relentlessly adapting strategies. Vision without dogma.
by John Doerr
Doerr advocates for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as the goal-setting system that powered Intel and Google. The method forces alignment, transparency, and measurable ambition across entire organisations.
Who Eric draws from, and who draws from Eric — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.