After the market announced the third-quarter earnings which were not meet the expectation in the last week, Google launched significant internal adjustments: This is Google CEO Larry • Page will turn over Google core products leadership rights to Tell Sundar Pichai.
The adjustment related to Search, Maps, Google +, research, business and advertising products, and infrastructure, coupled with Pichai has been in charge of Android, Chrome and Google Apps services, you can see that he has truly become a very powerful executive in Google. After the transfer, Paige will continue directly responsible for business and operations, including Nest, Calico, Google X, business development, legal, financial and commercial (including advertising sales) as well as access and energy business.
Reportedly, the adjustment did not involve changing the job title of Pichai, which means he is still the senior vice president of Google, is still reported to Paige. The former head of several products 6 executives previously reporting to Paige, and future reports will be turn to Pichai. According to an internal e-mail in Paige in the interpretation of the purpose of the adjustment can focus on the company’s own creativity, reduce excessive things ridden.
This inevitably causes guess again, whether Paige next step will be to the CEO duties or concentrate on doing away product?
Paige 3 years’ performance
Such adjustments seem letting Paige went back a few years ago. Since 2001 the CEO duties handed over to outsider Schmidt, Paige and another co-founder Sergey Brin • put the focus on creating new products, and this strategy has also created Google’s glory. Until 2011, with the Schmidt aged gradually, and applied new strategy, Paige was re-appointed CEO.
However, from majority points, Paige introverted, is an unsociable engineer, not very good at dealing with complex management, government, social relationships in CEO position, and this was the original reason for Paige let Schmidt as CEO ( he was also depressed over a period of time for this matter).
American writer Ken Auletta has described Paige: “Paige is a very self-person, he keep his head down playing with the Android phone when had meetings, he does not like public speeches, he hates arrangements full schedule, he believes spending too much time dealing with reporters, analysts or government officials is a waste of time. ”
Although there are a lot of people re-think his coming out has improved and preparations for a long time, nearly three years management, Google overall be a smooth transition, not many bright spots, on the contrary began to show new crisis.
For example, Google + as Google Facebook competing products belated for many years, is called Paige’s “achievement projects”, which has also implemented a promotion after coming acts without restraint, and now Google+ gradually fade out of public view. During his tenure $ 12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola’s huge deal ultimately was also considered in failure ended.
Indian Pichai
From the adjustment, Pichai position in Google inside can be described as high position, commanding almost all company’s core business. Although he is Google’s top leadership, basically there is no big difference. This is following the takeover after Nadella of Microsoft CEO, also an Indian takeover of the global technology giant.
Pichai was born in Chennai the fourth largest city of India’s, won India IIT-Kharagpur bachelor’s degree, master’s degree from Stanford University, Pennsylvania Wharton School MBA, has worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He joined Google Company in 2004, at the beginning he was primarily responsible for the management and innovation Google Chrome browser and other software products. Today, Chrome and desktop computer’s web browser market accounted for 32% with the market share, which was more than the IE, Firefox and Apple’s Safari. It is derived from the Chrome operating system is also used in a series of low-cost notebook computer called a Chromebook.
See Paige how to evaluate Pichai: “a wealth of technical experience, a keen eye and high product entrepreneurs can set intellect difficult for someone these three qualities, Pichai was called as a great leader.