leadership style
Larry Page
Larry (Lawrence) Page, currently CEO of Google Inc., was born on the 26th of March, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. He received his Bachelor of science in computer engineering from Michigan University and a Master of science in computer science from Stanford University. Proficient in computer science and extremely intelligent, he invented Pagerank, a powerful search algorithm that returned highly successful results to users' queries (Page et al, 1999). Together with his friend Sergey Brin, they founded Google in 1998. Google soon found itself at the top of search engines and from a small, garage- based company had transformed into a global giant. Google now is a synonym of world's no1 ideal (New York Post, 2011) and most attractive employer (Universum, 2012), employs 53546 people (Google, 2012) and owns numerous offices worldwide.
Larry Page's personal attributes and company's performance
The outstanding growth of the company could not have occurred hadn't it been for Larry Page. Larry Page had to, and managed to display more traits than just intelligence (Stogdill, 1974). He has exhibited a supportive (Kouzes and Posner, 2002) attitude embedding a ''don't be evil'' approach and has been expressing the will that every employee sees Google as a family (CNN, 2012). Google's employees' benefits extend to a huge spectrum: presents to the newcomers, free meals, on-site health care, travel insurance for the employees and their families, legal advice and services, family allowance and several days-off to new parents, fitness and gym facilities (Google, 2012) up to a form of pension to the family of a deceased employee (Forbes, 2012). Moreover, he has been extremely flexible (Huzcynski-Buchanan, 2007) releasing software-based products that directly challenge the company's competitors. For example, Google Docs, a free online Office tool, appears to be more tempting to use than the expensive Microsoft Office. Likewise, the company's Internet browser, Google
Larry (Lawrence) Page, currently CEO of Google Inc., was born on the 26th of March, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. He received his Bachelor of science in computer engineering from Michigan University and a Master of science in computer science from Stanford University. Proficient in computer science and extremely intelligent, he invented Pagerank, a powerful search algorithm that returned highly successful results to users' queries (Page et al, 1999). Together with his friend Sergey Brin, they founded Google in 1998. Google soon found itself at the top of search engines and from a small, garage- based company had transformed into a global giant. Google now is a synonym of world's no1 ideal (New York Post, 2011) and most attractive employer (Universum, 2012), employs 53546 people (Google, 2012) and owns numerous offices worldwide.
Larry Page's personal attributes and company's performance
The outstanding growth of the company could not have occurred hadn't it been for Larry Page. Larry Page had to, and managed to display more traits than just intelligence (Stogdill, 1974). He has exhibited a supportive (Kouzes and Posner, 2002) attitude embedding a ''don't be evil'' approach and has been expressing the will that every employee sees Google as a family (CNN, 2012). Google's employees' benefits extend to a huge spectrum: presents to the newcomers, free meals, on-site health care, travel insurance for the employees and their families, legal advice and services, family allowance and several days-off to new parents, fitness and gym facilities (Google, 2012) up to a form of pension to the family of a deceased employee (Forbes, 2012). Moreover, he has been extremely flexible (Huzcynski-Buchanan, 2007) releasing software-based products that directly challenge the company's competitors. For example, Google Docs, a free online Office tool, appears to be more tempting to use than the expensive Microsoft Office. Likewise, the company's Internet browser, Google