Leadership Analysis of Larry Page
Leadership Analysis (LA) Paper
Submitted by Kurt Holler
MGMT 407 Executive Leadership
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SECTION I BACKGROUND 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 bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then moved on to Stanford to pursue a masters degree in computer engineering. After completing his masters he decided to stay and go for a Ph.D, it was during a research project in the Ph.D program that Larry met Sergey Brin who would be his co-founder of the search engine website Google (Notablebiographies, 2012). Larry attributes his interest and success in computer engineering to his parents and general upbringing, he was constantly surrounded by
Submitted by Kurt Holler
MGMT 407 Executive Leadership
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SECTION I BACKGROUND 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 bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then moved on to Stanford to pursue a masters degree in computer engineering. After completing his masters he decided to stay and go for a Ph.D, it was during a research project in the Ph.D program that Larry met Sergey Brin who would be his co-founder of the search engine website Google (Notablebiographies, 2012). Larry attributes his interest and success in computer engineering to his parents and general upbringing, he was constantly surrounded by
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