Sundar Pichai, C.E.O. of Google and Alphabet, speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.
Running a $1.92 trillion company isn't for the faint of heart, according to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Most of his job revolves around making high-stakes decisions and solving problems other people have been unable to fix, Pichai said at a Stanford Business School speaking event in April 2022. Whenever he needs to cope with stress at work, he remembers a simple two-part mantra he learned as a graduate student, he said.
First, making any decision is better than wasting time ruminating on the options.
And second, most choices aren't permanent, and you can learn from your mistakes if you make one, said Pichai.
If someone at Google comes to him with a problem — which often happens when his team is divided between two solutions — he pushes himself to choose one of those options in an efficient manner, he said. The alternative usually involves letting the pressure get to you, which could slow down the team or, sometimes, the company as a whole, he added.
"You making that decision is the most important thing you can do [to move forward]," Pichai said at the event. "It may feel like a lot rides on [your choice], but you look later, and realize, it wasn't that consequential," said Pichai.
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Google CEO: This mantra helps me cope with pressure at work—I learned it as a student
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