Larry Page Leadership Style

Larry Page

Lawrence Page was born on March 26, 1973 in the East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Popularly known as Larry Page, he is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur and owes his stardom to Google. He is the co-founder of Google. Unlike many other successful entrepreneurs in this field, Larry is not a college dropout rather his success speaks volumes about the quality of study he has received. Larry completed his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and Pursued his M.S from Stanford University. Currently, this man is worth US$32.4 billion (as per data of july 2015). Not only this, page is also the inventor of PageRank which is Google’s best known search ranking algorithm.

HIS EARLY LIFE

Larry’s father Carl Vincent Page,

Larry Page, as the CEO of Google, one of the largest corporations of the world, has set a picture for everyone who aims at being a leader. Page has truly proved his worth and his expertise at what he does.

During his early management Larry adopted a leadership style of his own. Page wanted engineers to supervise engineers as he felt non-engineers lacked technical knowledge. He documented his management tenets for his team. His management tenets were initially doubted by some for he believed that it was better to finish off more work yourself than delegating all of it. It speeded up the work process. He clearly asked people to not get in the way if they were not adding any value. Basically, Page applied a very realistic and practical approach to leadership. Maintaining a very straightforward and frank relationship with his employees and subordinates while keeping his focus on work only. Not just that, he respected ideas coming from even the youngest minds because he firmly advocated the theory that ideas are more important than age. He pushed his engineers to their limits, he fretted nanoseconds because he was of the view that the faster Google answered questions, more people would use

He has been married since 2007 to Lucinda Southworth. He has also faced serious medical issues since 2013, which he also publicized on his Google+ profile. Besides, Larry also has a number of awards to his name. He was also named the World Economic Global Forum Leader for tomorrow in the year 2002 and he has proved that to be true. He has also received an honorary doctorate from his Alma Mater, the University of Michigan. Larry also continues to be a socially responsible person and not just that he realizes his social-corporate responsibilities