Eric Schmidt two co-wrote in 2010. He also wrote the preface to "The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs", by William H. Draper, III. In 2014, Schmidt co-authored the New York Times best-selling book "How Google Works" with Jonathan Rosenberg, former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEO Larry Page, and Alan Eagle. The book is a collection of the business management lessons learned over the course of Schmidt and Rosenberg's time leading Google. In his book, Eric Schmidt argues that successful companies in the technology-driven internet age should attract smart and
Executive compensation in the United States and Exchange Commission. Since the 1990s, CEO compensation in the U.S. has outpaced corporate profits, economic growth and the average compensation of all workers. Between 1980 and 2004, Mutual Fund founder John Bogle estimates total CEO compensation grew 8.5 percent/year compared to corporate profit growth of 2.9 percent/year and per capita income growth of 3.1 percent. By 2006 CEOs made 400 times more than average workers—a gap 20 times bigger than it was in 1965. As a general rule, the larger the corporation the larger the CEO compensation package. The share of corporate income devoted to compensating the five highest-paid