heroes ERIC SCHMIDT Navigation is the key
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE THING YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS ON GOOGLE 100% OF THE TIME.
Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped the start-up company grow into a global leader in technology. Now the company's executive chairman, he is best known for his innovative leadership during a 10-year stint as CEO. This includes establishing the 20 per cent time policy, whereby employees are allowed to spend a fifth of their time on worthwhile personal projects. In 2010 he founded Innovation Endeavours, an early-stage venture fund focused on advancing the world by providing
OPRAH WINFREY Believe in yourself
Oprah Winfrey has leveraged her celebrity into a formidable empire worth $US2.7 billion. Her business and personal interests are wide-ranging and she has been successful in virtually all her endeavours. While best known for her talk show, she is also a producer, an actress, a publisher and a philanthropist. "What I love about Oprah Winfrey is
that she wasn't constrained. Sure, bad things happened in her life but she never let that constrain her," Jen Dalitz says. "There are plenty of examples of
women who have overcome adversity, but what's happened in the past is history and what you want to happen in the future is up to you, and I think that's the mantra of Oprah Winfrey. "A key message that I deliver to
women who I mentor is that it is all about confidence and when I work with businesswomen I tell them that from this moment forward you can have self-doubt but you cannot express it publicly in the business place because it will affect the way people think about you."
THE BIG SECRET IN LIFE IS THAT THERE IS NO BIG SECRET. WHATEVER YOUR GOAL, YOU CAN GET THERE IF YOU'RE WILLING TO WORK.
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high-impact entrepreneurs with the capital, coaching and network to build game-changing ventures. "Eric Schmidt was a visionary when
it came to the locating of information," Damien Morgan says. "In the information age where information was everywhere, he realised that whoever could help us navigate our way through to find what we were looking for would hold the key and would be in a very powerful position. It was this early insight that was the keystone of the Google empire."
