Research Paper on Larry Page as a Business Leader

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Research Paper on Larry Page As a Business Leader
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Introduction
Leadership involves guiding and leading other individuals in pursuit of their desired
results and goals. A business leader inspires and motivates other individuals in the process of
business activities so as to achieve the desired goals and objectives. For leadership to be of
relevance and enable the organization to achieve its desired goals and objectives there are several
factors that the leader should put into place so as to enable effective decision making and
leadership styles in the organization (Womack, 2015). The paper will identify the name and
position of one of the business leaders. It will then provide a brief description of the organization
that the leader works for. A discussion on the analysis of the leader using the concepts of
leadership will be provided. The paper will include a discussion of how change is approached by
the leader, how the vision and strategic direction for the organization was provided by the leader
and how change is managed by him. The paper will include a conclusion so as to give a general
overview of what has been discussed (Womack, 2015).
The name of the leader and his position
The selected business leader is identified as Lawrence Edward Page. The most common
name that is popular among other individuals and organizations is Larry Page. He is the CEO of
Alphabet Company. Larry Page is one of the best business leaders that have motivated their
followers and other employees to achieve the goals and objectives of the organizations that he
has worked for. Larry Page is an American citizen and his career is majored in internet
entrepreneurship and a scientist (Rushe and Theilman, 2015). He co-founded Google
organization with an individual that is identified as Sergey Brin. He was the former Chief
Executive Officer of Google Company before joining Alphabet. This was years before Alphabet

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was made and founded. Larry Page has worked as a CEO for Google organization for a period of
approximately fifteen years before joining Alphabet.
An analysis of the leader's organization
The alphabet is a multinational organization that is located in Mountain View, California
in the United States of America. The organization was incorporated in around October 2015. The
organization is the parent company of Google and its other subsidiaries. The other organizations
that are operating under Alphabet Company include Android, Google Maps, Search, Hardware
and Google Play among others (Rushe and Theilman, 2015). Larry Page and another individual
that is identified as Sergey Brin are the ones who came up with an idea of starting Alphabet and
making it be the parent company of Google and its subsidiaries. Alphabet Company is also
comprised of Capital G, Google Fiber, Loon, Calico, and Waymo among others. Some of the
Alphabet's subsidiaries have changed their names after leaving Google and joining Alphabet
(Womack, 2015).
The reasons for restructuring the organization are to increase the rate of accountability
and transparency in Google Company and its subsidiaries. Larry stated that making Google
organization operate under the new parent company is a great idea as it will make its operations
to be cleaner. The accountability and integrity of an organization are important in achieving the
required goals and objectives. Google is the main subsidiary of Alphabet Company followed by
other organizations. It acts as the umbrella Company or organization (Rushe and Theilman,
2015). The organization has also carried out several acquisitions after it was incorporated in
2015.

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An analysis of the leader using leadership concepts
Leadership is an ability that an individual can learn and develop. Leaders have the
responsibility of continued training, acquiring knowledge and experience so as to improve their
leadership skills. The concepts of leadership include the characteristics that a person has which
makes him or her be identified as an effective leader (Draft, 2018). The leadership concepts also
comprise of principles and models that are being used by an effective leader. Even though
effective leadership is acquired through the process of learning, the leadership skills and
knowledge of the leader can be influenced by his or her personal traits and attributes including
cultural beliefs and practices. Larry page uses several leadership concepts in his organization. He
has personal beliefs and traits that have made him be one of the most successful business leaders
around the world (Glowick, 2017).
One of the leadership characteristics that Larry Page has is courage. Larry Page had the
courage of coming up with an idea of Google and Alphabet Company and making them be
existing organizations that are very successful in terms of performance. Larry Page is a type of
leader who is confident of stating that he cannot know everything regarding the operations of
organizations. He instead welcomes every idea from his employees so as to come up with
effective decisions that improves the operations of the organization and makes the Company
achieve its future goals and objectives. It also took courage for Larry Page to create a new
holding company, that is, Alphabet and make Google organization act as a subsidiary Company
(Draft, 2018).
The other leadership trait that Larry possesses is having a character of creating visions
and being innovative. Larry had formulated the vision of Google Company before it was