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LEADERSHIP STYLE: WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WHEN THEY ARE LEARNING
BUS 520
June 8, 2012
Larry Page, CEO of Google Larry Page was a young entrepreneur and computer whiz born on March 26th, 1973 in Michigan (Weintraub, 2011). He graduated from Michigan University with a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering and later followed in his parents footsteps and went on to study computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met his partner Sergey Brin (Weintraub, 2011). In their research project at the university, together they developed a search engine which listed desired results on the basis of popularity. The search engine was named Google as the term means, 1 followed by 100 mathematics (Weintraub, 2011). Their aim was to provide maximum information available on WWW on typing certain key words. Soon, they gathered enough money to finance the project which eventually was launched in 1998 (Weintraub, 2011). Since then, there has been no turning back because Google is the most popular search engine in the world, with over 250 million inquiries a day. The company is located in Silicon Valley, California and the first initial public offering (IPO) was made in 2004, which made both partners billionaires. Currently, Page is the CEO of the company and recently purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion, which is the most popular entertainment website for watching videos (Weintraub, 2011). The surprising growth of the company is credited to the fantastic leadership of Larry Page and he has been able to show more qualities rather than just his intelligence. His approach is clear and simple towards his employees; for example, he is compassionate, humane, and treats the company as a family. He cares of his employees by providing gifts to new hires, free meal times, free medical, travel assurance for employees and their families, legal assistance, maternity leave, gaming, gyms, pension for dependents of
LEADERSHIP STYLE: WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WHEN THEY ARE LEARNING
BUS 520
June 8, 2012
Larry Page, CEO of Google Larry Page was a young entrepreneur and computer whiz born on March 26th, 1973 in Michigan (Weintraub, 2011). He graduated from Michigan University with a Bachelor’s Degree in engineering and later followed in his parents footsteps and went on to study computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met his partner Sergey Brin (Weintraub, 2011). In their research project at the university, together they developed a search engine which listed desired results on the basis of popularity. The search engine was named Google as the term means, 1 followed by 100 mathematics (Weintraub, 2011). Their aim was to provide maximum information available on WWW on typing certain key words. Soon, they gathered enough money to finance the project which eventually was launched in 1998 (Weintraub, 2011). Since then, there has been no turning back because Google is the most popular search engine in the world, with over 250 million inquiries a day. The company is located in Silicon Valley, California and the first initial public offering (IPO) was made in 2004, which made both partners billionaires. Currently, Page is the CEO of the company and recently purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion, which is the most popular entertainment website for watching videos (Weintraub, 2011). The surprising growth of the company is credited to the fantastic leadership of Larry Page and he has been able to show more qualities rather than just his intelligence. His approach is clear and simple towards his employees; for example, he is compassionate, humane, and treats the company as a family. He cares of his employees by providing gifts to new hires, free meal times, free medical, travel assurance for employees and their families, legal assistance, maternity leave, gaming, gyms, pension for dependents of