...http://larrypage.weebly.com/ Background You always hear stories about people who knew what they wanted to do with their life the second they started living. Larry Page was, and still is, one of those people. Since the tender age of 12, Page knew that one day he would start his own business. Of course, the elements contributing to this decision began at a much younger age than twelve. One would say that the love of inventing things ran in the family. Page's parents, Gloria and Carl Page, were two highly talented and intelligent computer science professors at the University of Michigan. While other six years olds were off playing sports and collecting baseball cards, Page took great interest in dismantling items in his house to "see how it worked". When asked about his childhood, Page commented "(there were) computers and Popular Science magazines everywhere". From this quote, it is quite evident that there was something unusual about Page from a very young age. Page moved on to become the first kid at his school to turn in an assignment from a word processor. One of his first inventions was an inkject printer made entirely from LEGO bricks. As Page grew older, he decided not to put his talent of inventing items to waste, and became interested in the world of business. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of State Michigan and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. He graduated from both schools with honours...
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...Larry Page: CEO of Google Larry Page is the co-founder and CEO of Google. He cofounded the company in 1998 with Sergey Brin while they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford University. He was the first CEO of the company until 2001. From 2001 until 2011 Page was the president of products. In 2011, he reclaimed his position as CEO. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University (www.google.com). Larry Page has an innovation leadership style. An innovate leader is one who develops both vision and strategy, sets up processes to materialize it, and creates an organizational culture that helps to facilitate the creation of ideas and implementation (Bel, 2010). Larry Page has done this as co-founder and continues to innovate as the CEO of Google. Page consistently pushes the envelope at Google, encouraging ideas that most would deem unthinkable. The role of an innovative leader is to inspire by generating ideas, vision, strategy and design, and building the organizational structure, culture, and processes that support them (Bel, 2010). Innovative leaders have the ability to recognize opportunities and develop them, something Page has succeeded at doing at Google. Page has the creativity to come up with ideas and the discipline to develop them. Page encourages risk taking and can handle risks well. Page empowers and facilitates Google employees’ work, which has led to a large number of...
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...Taking this leadership course has helped me gain a better understanding of what it means to be a leader. Becoming a manager is something that anybody can learn to do ,but becoming a true leader is something more ,something intrinsic .The leader is someone that other people will follow because who the leader is and what they stand for. There are several things that I have learned from this class, which will help me in the future as I pursue a leadership position. The readings in our Strengths Based Leadership book by Rath and Conchie have provided me with some extremely useful information .They are: Investing in your strengths-which to me meant that the maximizing of your strengths is a more effective way of reaching and maintaining your goals and being successful as a leader, then if you were to focus on figuring out your weaknesses and deficiencies. It is important to never try to be anyone you are not, because in the end you will only be fooling yourself. You want to surround yourself with a team that compliment your leadership style, then take your team and maximize their potential. Additionally, it is very important to never forget your team’s needs, as this will be the fuel for your team as they continue to grow and support you. Maximizing your team- this was where we utilized the four domains of leadership strength, which will help create a team that compliments each other. Executing-people who want to make things happen. Influencing-this person helps...
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...What Do People Do When They Are Leading? July 14, 2013 1.1 Leader’s Name: __Larry Page CEO - Google__________________ Item 1: Lawrence Page was born on March 26, 1973 in East Lansing MI to Carl and Gloria Page (Biographies.com, 2012). The groundwork for Larry Page’s future success in the world of computers was laid by his parents. His father Carl Vincent Page was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University and was an early pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence; his mother Gloria was a computer programming teacher at Michigan University (Notablebiographies, 2012). His parent’s passion for computers and technology was instilled in Larry at an early age; Larry’s father gave him his first computer at the age of 6. This fostered an early interest in computer technology that truly shaped his future path in life, in his own words this early exposure to technology caused Larry to become “…really interested in technology and also then, soon after, in business, because I figured that inventing things wasn't any good; you really had to get them out into the world and have people use them to have any effect. So probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually” (Achievment.org, 2012). Little did he know that he would become founder and CEO of a global giant. Larry Page earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then moved on to Stanford to pursue a masters degree in computer...
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...The Entrepreneurial Leadership Abstract Entrepreneurship is defined as “the willingness to take risks”. (Kurtz, 2010 p.182). The people who make entrepreneurship happen are those who “seek a profitable opportunity and take the necessary risks to set up and operate a business” who are known as entrepreneurs. (Kurtz, 2010 p.182). In this assignment, we will analyze the different leadership styles of the well know entrepreneurs, Thomas Edison who was an American scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and Anita Roddick who is the founder of The Body Shop and encourages social responsibility in a number of facets. In addition, we are going to discuss the major business principles these entrepreneurs used to achieve their goals. Presently, entrepreneurship has become increasing encouraged because of the chance of job security and financially stability; enhance their quality of life, Entrepreneurship starts with a vision to change society, a culture, the world, or just a single person’s life, with a product or service and Anita Roddick had a vision to make a profitable business. Entrepreneurism is a curious thing. When one man has a dream, he goes out and converts that dream into a reality. For centuries, this has been the American way. There are several questions an entrepreneur has to ask himself, though; first, will I be making profit? No one wants to go into business to waste his time or money. Second, an entrepreneur must ask himself if he is being socially responsible...
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...paragraph) description of the organization you chose to research. The company that I chose to research is the company Google. Everyone is aware of Google. It is the most widely used search engine in the world. Google is considered to be one of the best, if not the best search engine of all time. The company Google is considered to be a technological giant and a threat to other tech giants, for example Microsoft. Google’s creators Larry Page and Sergey Binn, started this company in 1995. Google was first developed to be a search engine, but it has crown to the point where it can be used as an internet browser also. Unlike its competitor Microsoft Internet Explorer, it has to be compatible with certain browsers in order to function at its fullest potential. 2. Examine the culture of the selected organization. Google’s corporate culture began with its founder’s philosophy, the famous 10 tenets. (Lisa Jackson 2013). And since Google is still controlled by its founders, that means that the culture in part of the company’s mantra. Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Binn believe that trust is one of the most important aspects for the culture at Google. Google mission is a culture of choice. That is they are not a conventional company in the sense that they are not a slave to Wall Street, and that allows them to build a culture that will deliver on this mission and that is principally organized to drive innovation. (Jeff Jarvis, 2013). Because of this trust that Google foster’s to...
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...to the leadership traits of CEO Larry Page. This paper will also explain why teams play such an import role into the success of Google as a leader within the industry. Finally, Google’s organizational structure will be explained to show the characteristics of the company that lead to its current success. DISCUSSION: What leadership style best represents Google’s CEO Larry Page? The text defines leadership as the process of influencing others to facilitate the attainment of the organizationally relevant goals (Ivancevich). Leadership styles are the different ways in which leaders influence others to motivate a group or team to attain organizational goals. These leadership styles include telling, selling, participating, and delegating. CEO Larry page uses all of these styles to a certain degree depending on whom he is communicating with and when he is communicating. When the CEO is communicating with members of his team he has been known to use the participating style, which is where leaders and followers share in the decision s about best to complete a high-quality job. This style was evident when Larry Page urged his team to “dream big” at the Google Faculty Summit in 2009. He told his team to believe in audacious ideas. He stated by tackling big ideas a person could change the world. This was an example of sharing his ideas but also encouraging his team to come up with their own ideas that could positively impact the organization. Larry Page has also been known to use the...
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...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. 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...
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...comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards. Google has offices around the globe, from Bangalore to Zurich, but regardless of where we are, we nurture an invigorating, positive environment by hiring talented, local people who share our commitment to creating search perfection and want to have a great time doing it. Googlers thrive in small, focused teams and high-energy environments, believe in the ability of technology to change the world, and are as passionate about their lives as they are about their work. The work culture and employee empowerment philosophy at google was apparent form the day the company was launched in 1998. The founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted to establish Google as a company that was to be seen as a company run by the Geeks. The HR department in its alignment with the business strategy of trying to attract the best minds across the globe to work for Google, has since always aimed to become the strategic partner to the business operations....
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...Executive Summary In a span of sixteen years Google has become a part of our life. With the vision and management style of its founders Larry page and Sergey Brin, the company has ventured into new avenues and has grown exponentially but the path ahead is challenging. Through a strategic analysis of Google Inc. the paper tries to provide an insight into the company’s core businesses, threats it faces, profitability and the path ahead for Google. Using classroom teachings and frameworks like PEST analysis, the Five force model of competitive forces, core competencies, competitive advantage, and strategy management we better understand the nature and strength of competitive pressures within the internet and technology industry. Google must continuously innovate and remain a differentiator among competitors to maintain the growth trend and retain market share. With the evolution of “search” an individual’s/company’s ability to leverage its capabilities on the internet has been the driving force from the beginning. Google is the leading search firm with nearly ‘67% market share in USA and more than 90% market share in most of the Asian and European countries. For Google to continue its success and remain profitable it has to focus on the key businesses that are still driving hard revenues and to reach into those verticals that are in the company’s best interest, while leaving the losers behind. In the year of 2009 Google captured 67.7% of search in the U.S., with 32.3%...
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...When Nike endorsed Tiger woods in 2009 it was an extra edge for Nike over it’s competitors but when Tiger woods was accused to be engaged in a sex scandal in 2011 it not only harnessed the image of Tiger woods as a major golfer but also of the image of Nike’s which has it’s presence in all over International Markets 2. -North America-44% Europe-24% China -11% South Asian market-18% Here there is an opportunity for Adidas to gain more market share by capitalizing on these developing Markets. -Growth in greater China and other emerging markets in Asia region is an opportunity for Adidas - Focus on it’s product development Focus on new innovations To regain and increase it’s brand Value. Goolge 1. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin expressed Google’s core values “Don’t Be Evil.” Refuse to continue censoring its Chinese search results. Preferring to hire PhDs and Academic Superstars for positions throughout the Organization. Innovation, is a long-standing priority at Google. All programmers, use up to 20% of their work time on projects they...
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...Topic: The invention of Google General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the inventor of google; Sergey Brin and Larry Page Thesis: How did the most popular search engine was created, how did it survive throughout all the competition, and what other invention have they created. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: A journalist name, Ken Auletta ask Bill Gate “what are you worried about?” instead of saying Apple, IBM, or any other technology company. Bill Gate said “Imma’ tell you what I’m worried about, I’m worried about some guy in a garage, inventing a new technology that Microsoft could never have thought of.” C. Preview of Main Points: 1. How did Larry Page and Sergey Brinn came up with the thought of google? What cause them to create it and the effect. 2. How did the innovate google, and how is google different than other website at the time. 3. Other invention that Larry Page and Sergei Brin Created. II. Body A. How did Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with the thought of google? 1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin Meet at Stanford University. 2. Surgery Brin was assigned to show Larry Page around, both were aiming trying to get a PhD 3. Over a year after Sergey Brin was assigned to show Larry Page around they collaborated together to create a search engine called BackRub. a. Before BackRub was officially out to the public. They operated on the servers...
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...Introduction According form the sentence “ Creativity and innovation are essentially perceived as the building blocks toward the achievement and success of entrepreneurs”. The sentence is mention with regard to creativity and innovation in term of business. There are many confusion theories concerning creativity and innovation in term of firms and partnerships. Therefore, the writer is going to find out and explain the sentence. Then, this essay will give the definition of creativity and innovation, and determine the key word of the sentence. Why the creativity and innovation are important for successful for entrepreneurs as the building blocks of company and organizational firm. In addition, the writer will provide an example case study that support of how significant of those two words is. Many theories of Creativity and innovation in term of business can be cause of confusing in the sense of creativity and innovation. However, Creativity and innovation are two different terms and they technically have different sense. Fist of all, creativity in term of business is described, as “Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to particular task” (BusinessDictionary.com, n.d.). Therefore, creativity is a result processing of knowledge including curious, experience, imagination, and evaluation. Base on the theory of Burrus (2013), “the creativity is divided into three steps: Discovery: the lower...
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...Larry Page Creativity is in every one of us; some people choose to use it and other’s put it to the side thinking that they are not smart enough, or don’t have the ability to be creative. Creative thinkers, those that think outside of the box and have the ability to create and get done what needs to get done (freedictionary, 2010), are set apart from all the rest, because they don’t sit back and wait for change, they create change. This is the case of Larry Page, the co-creator of one of the largest and most innovative internet search engine sites, Google. Larry Page wasn’t the type of guy who sat around waiting for something to change, he seen what needed to be done and created change, and came up with innovative ways in creating the largest and most profitable internet based company in the world today. Starting out in his friend’s garage, Larry’s creative thinking led them to come up with innovative ways to make money, such as selling advertisements, and even creating a web based email called Gmail, to allow users to set up email accounts that tailor to their needs and can hold more storage than any other email carrier (San Juan, 2010). The impact that Larry’s creative thinking has had on Google has been tremendous. Starting out from a garage to becoming one of the largest internet companies in the world today proves that living on the idea to be creative and innovate, you will always grow, and that is exactly the motto Larry thrives on day in and day out. Creativity is...
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...The rise of Google, now a $6.1 billion company, has been fast and fierce. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in 1995 as Stanford University graduate students. They created a search engine that combined the technologies of Page’s PageRank system, which evaluates a page’s importance based on the external links to it, and Brin’s Web crawler, which visits Web sites and records a summary of their content. Because Google was so effective, it quickly became the search engine of choice for Web users. Today, Google handles nearly 50 percent of Web searches. Google stopped displaying the number of Web pages it indexed after the number surpassed 8 billion in 2005, but some estimates now place the number at 25 billion. Google’s index also includes one billion images and one billion Usenet newsgroup messages. In addition to searching for Web pages, Google users can search for PDF, PostScript, text, Microsoft Office, Lotus, PowerPoint, and Shockwave files. Google claims to be one of the five most popular sites on the Internet with more than 380 million unique users per month and more than 50 percent of its traffic coming from outside the United States. Google’s IT infrastructure is a closely guarded secret because it is part of its competitive advantage. The best guess is that Google has up to 450,000 servers spread over at least 25 locations around the world. These servers use inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware to run a customized version of the Linux operating system and other critical...
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