Currently, over 2 million companies and 20 million users have gone Google. However, how many of them actually know who created Google?
Leadership
Leader born or made?
There is never an exact answer for this question. Many people say leader is born but many of others say leader are made. I personally think that everyone is born a leader, then is made. In the other point of view, it means that leader is made, because everyone is born the same and it just whether you want to be made or not. Leaders are made by hard work, which is the price that people have to pay to achieve their goals.
Larry Page - Google founder
It was never a surprise that Larry Page took the study course of computer engineering at Stanford University as his parents were both computer experts. While in his Ph.D. program, he met Sergey Brin, and together they created Google. Larry Page came out with the idea of a search engine by linking web pages together while doing on his research project. This search engine was named after the mathematical term "Googol, which is one followed by hundred zeros, represented the immense amount of data Google was intended to explode. The very first version of Google was published in 1996 and the company was launched in 1998.
Google's original homepage
Today, Google has become the world's most popular search engine. It has more than 10,000 employees with annual incomes of more than ten billion dollars by 2006. In the same year, Google purchased Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars. Page continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Sergey even they are already billionaires.
Larry Page has spent almost his entire life at Google, he created it and introduced it to the world. His successfulness brings him wealth, but what brings his successfulness?
Larry Page's leadership style
The outstanding growth of Google could not have turned out if it hadn't been for Page. He had displayed his excellent leadership style more than just intelligence. Page insists that bureaucracy can never work in his company. It applies a laissez-faire policy toward leadership. This company is packed of smart engineers, thus Page believes his employees are smart enough to figure out their own staff or question others if they needed help.
My opinion:
As you know, laissez-faire, which means "leave it be", describes leaders who allow their employees to work on their own. In my opinion, I think this style of leadership works pretty well in Google company. It is because those employees are graduated from prestigious university, they definitely know what they are doing, as a result, they perform better under laissez-faire leadership style. With advantages come disadvantages, the main problem of laissez-faire leadership style is that it might be less productive because the workers held an " as long as the work gets done" attitude. However, employees that are led under Larry Page do not equip this attitude, Page has his ways to handle his people, this makes me admire him so much.
"A great leader who uses laissez faire leadership reds to assemble a great team of high achievers and performers who do not need hands on supervision"
Citations:
Citations:
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- "Larry Page Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013. <http://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347>.
- "Larry Page." Famous Entrepreneurs. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013. <http://www.famous-entrepreneurs.com/larry-page>.
- "The 8 Most Important Qualities of Leadership at Google." RealTime Leadership. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013. <http://www.realtimeperformance.com/RealTimeLeadership/2011/the-8-most-important-qualities-of-leadership-at-google/>.
- "Leadership Styles." - Leadership Skills from MindTools.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013.<http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm>.
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