The Intellog Blog

In Ken Auletta’s recent book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (full review to follow) the author talks about a Silicon Valley figure by the name of Bill Campbell, the Chairman of Intuit.  He’s also the so-called ‘secret coach’ of the Google triumvirate of Brin, Page and Schmidt.  In Auletta’s book, there is a reference to an article from Fortune magazine called The Secret Coach, by Jennifer Reingold.   In turn, both the book and the article mention the only known interview with this very private individual, appearing in the The McKinsey Quarterly, called Coaching Innovation: An Interview with Intuit’s Bill Campbell.  The latter provides some of the specific ideas Bill has with respect to building and maintaining innovative development teams.  Both of these articles are well worth reading.