Schmidt is able to focus more on his duties of pushing the company forward because he can depend on talented people to make him look good.

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Sergei Brin and Larry Page were wise to step away from being CEOs of Google to be chairman and let Eric Schmidt run the day-to-day operations while they focus on the areas they are good at.

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