Google execs reveal best advice they got from Silicon Valley's 'trillion dollar' business coach

In his decades mentoring Silicon Valley's elite executives, Bill Campbell became the trusted confidant to tech leaders including Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, former executive chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg.

Now Schmidt's book,"Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell" — written with two other Google executives — reveals the best bits of wisdom from the legendary executive advisor, who passed away at age 75 in 2016. Here, co-authors Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle each share with CNBC Make It the single most important piece of advice they learned from working with and studying Campbell."What he and I came to was my job as CEO was not to run a consensus decision but to get to the best decision from all the team members," Schmidt tells CNBC Make It.

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