Personal Effectiveness: Analyzing Sunder Pichai's Leadership Style

This report provides a comprehensive case study analysis of Sunder Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google, examining his leadership skills and personal effectiveness. The report delves into his strengths, such as balance in leadership, resilience, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities, while also addressing his weaknesses, including a perceived lack of vision and decision-making issues. It explores specific examples of his leadership style, including his approach to team building and his handling of controversies. The reflective statement section includes a self-assessment of developmental needs, focusing on areas like time management, planning, and managing stress. The report concludes with recommendations for personal development, aiming to enhance leadership capabilities by addressing identified weaknesses and leveraging strengths. The analysis draws on various sources to provide a well-rounded perspective on Pichai's impact on Google and his leadership journey.

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1 INTRODUCTION 04
2- Case Study 05
2.1 SKILLS OF SUNDER PICHAI 05
2.1.1 BALANCE IN LEADERSHIP 05
2.1.2 TAKE FAILURE AS SUCCESS 05
2.1.3 GOOD FRIENDS AND ALLIES 06
2.1.4 DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL TEAMS 06
2.1.5 HARD WORKER 06
2.1.6 GREAT PROBLEM SOLVER 06
2.1.7 Good Listener 06
2.1.8 RESILIENCE 07
2.1.9 COLLABORATION 07
2.1.10 VERSATILITY 07
2.2 NEGATIVE SKILLS AND BEHAVIOUR 07
2.2.1 LACK OF VISION 07
2.2.2 NOT GOOD AT DECISION MAKING 08
2.2.3 INVOLVED IN CONTROVERSIES 08
2.2.4 BAD MANAGEMENT 09
2.2.5 GOOGLE FACE PROBLEM 09
2.2.6 FILLING A VOID 09
3 REFLECTIVE STATEMENT 10
3.1 SELF ASSESSED DEVELOPMENT 10
3.1.1 LACK OF SELF BELIVE 11
3.1.2 PERSISTENCE 11
3.1.3 TIME MANGEMENT 12
3.1.4 MANAGING STRESS 12

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3.1.5 LACK OF PLANNING 12
3.1.6 CONTROVERSIES 13
4.1 STAY MOTIVATED 14
4.2 MANAGE PROPER TIME 14
4.3 WILL MANAGE MY WORK LOAD 15
4.4 WILL MAKE PROPER PLANNING 15
4.5 AVOID CONTROVERSIES 16
4.6 Will become a good Listener 16
4 – CONCLUSION 17
5- REFERNCES 18

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1- INTRODUCTION
Effective and confident persons are the real assists of the organizations. With every organization those
who are most effective make good progress and become mangers and CEOs of the company. in order
to maintain good confidence continuous wining progress is essential and is required. According to Dr
Kedar, people generally blame situations rather than finding reasons for their failure (Dr Kedar, 2016).
Negative approach may occur when we failed to find the reasons of our failures. A person's work helps
us to achieve goals and to use his skills, abilities, time and energy
(Courtney Osborn, 2019). Personal performance varies from person to person as it is fully based
carriers, type of work, personal health and goals. It is more scientific and efficient
including a variety of factors that have a direct impact on personal performance (Dr. Kedar, 2016).
Successful people have the following qualities such as determination, self-confidence,
hope, problem solving etc.
Sunder Pichai was born in 1972. He is the founder and CEO of Alphabet Inc. and associated with it
google (National Journal). Being the chief executive of such a large apartment, Sunder Pichai proved
himself to be one
of the world's best performer as statistics show that he has worked with remarkable success
google-presented products like Chrome Browser, Mac Os, google Docs, and you are responsible
with products like Gmail and Google Maps (National Journal). Here in this report, we will discuss how
Sunder Pichai’s performance makes him a world leader

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2- Case Study
Here in this section, we will critically analyse the skills and behaviours that make Sunder
Pichai an effectively global leader. Also, we will analyse the positive and negative skill and
behaviour and their impacts on his life.
2.1 SKILLS OF SUNDER PICHAI
Sunder Pichai is CEO in the world’s most reputed organization “Google”. To be the part of
such a huge organization required proper skills and behaviours. This also shows that with all
the success in the Google since his CEO, the credits are for sure Sunder Pichai’s enhanced
skills. To become CEO in a company like Google, among all of these competent staff he
possesses extra ordinary skills and smart thinking. Followings are some of Sunder Pichai
skills that make him an effective leader in Google (Tamanna, 2018). His achievements can
also be emphasising with the fact that since his appointment as CEO of Google many products
were launched and introduced like Mozilla Firefox web browsers (Adrija Bose, 2015).
2.1.1 BALANCE IN LEADERSHIP
Sunder has a very great leadership skills of even tempered and positive. According to Larry
Page sunder would become a king of google as its CEO (Tamanna, 2018). With great team
dynamics, brilliant minds Google and Alphabet Inc have already done some amazing
achievements by updating their most popular product like Google chrome, Google Drive etc.
(Tamanna, 2018).
2.1.2 TAKE FAILURE AS SUCCESS
Sundar reveals the truth that failure is also a part of life as success is (Tamanna, 2018). This
positive approach to failure leads many companies into successful roads. Sunder also reveal
the truth that if you are only getting successes and not face failures in your life you are either
incredible or you are not setting up your goals high (Tamanna, 2018). Failures are important
because it teaches you lessons and by learning your mistakes you can get enough experience
that you might get high chances of success next time.

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2.1.3 GOOD FRIENDS AND ALLIES
Sunder has very good quality of making friends and allies. This can be proved with the facts
that almost every organization Google also has internal politics. Sunder deals with these
politics for his benefits without damaging any other team (Zafar M, 2015).
2.1.4 DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL TEAMS
Another successful effective skill of sunder is he choose best and competent people around
him and he worked with such teams where members are intelligent, smart and progressive.
One of the former employees at Google says Sunder promotes good people and opposed
political and opportunistic people (Zafar M, 2015).
2.1.5 HARD WORKER
Google CEO Sunder Pichai is a hardworking. The most understandable debate to his hard
work is that he achieved the most effective position the worlds most reputed Organization
Google.
2.1.6 GREAT PROBLEM SOLVER
Sunder Pichai has very great quality and skills of problem solving. At the management level
problem solving is a very key factor to showcase your skill to become a first choice for the
organization. For this argument Larry page used to attend meetings several times with Google
officials and she clearly indicate that sometime in meetings I leave without getting questioned,
and in such bad circumstances he helps the attenders understand what Larry meant and
clarify (Zafar M, 2015).
2.1.7 Good Listener
Listening is a habit which shows great leadership skills. Great leaders are always good
listeners. Which helps them in identifying problems and decode messages and information
well. Sunder Pichai is also gifted with the leadership skill of listening.

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2.1.8 RESILIENCE
Working won the project of Google Chrome with only 10 engineers. They face a lot of hurdles
during experimentation. When the prototype develops no company wanted to take Internet
explore on the challenge in this business. After launching there was a lot of scepticism (Zafar
Modak, 2015).
2.1.9 COLLABORATION
Pichai generally avoid enemies and as a chief he avoids conflicts and confrontations. He
makes efforts to make good friends and the reason why he is at the top of the company is that
He works smartly and differently.
2.1.10 VERSATILITY
Pichai starts the google chrome project with 10 specialists. He organized them well and they
face a lot of hurdles before and after experiment.
2.2 NEGATIVE SKILLS AND BEHAVIOUR
Almost with every person positive and negative skill go side by side, nobody is perfect and
every body possesses some weaknesses. With all his lustrous life as successful person
Sunder Pichai has some weakness which cause impact on his life as CEO as he is not a
common man and people and fans are impacting positive skills and behaviour from sunder
and when ever something bad happen his fans get hurt and he gets badly trolled.
2.2.1 LACK OF VISION
Reports suggests that he clearly lacks vision when he takes decisions and one of the biggest
negative elements of Sunder Pichai (NDTV, 2018). The report also mentioned that he lacks
clarity in many of his decision taken in past.

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2.2.2 NOT GOOD AT DECISION MAKING
For many people who worked in organizations they follow Sunder Pichai as role model but
with all these realities he not a good decision maker. He often involves in controversial
decisions (NDTV, 2018). Those who worked contact bases with Google under Pichai,
management, they are not happy with many decisions as they are getting less benefits and
companies facilities. In some reports it is also reveals that Pichai does not have full authority
over Alphabet’s resource allocation to Google (NDTV, 2018).
2.2.3 INVOLVED IN CONTROVERSIES
The worst thing that can ever happen in a person professional life is involve in controversies.
These controversies can lead to some serious and disastrous circumstances. With a
reputation like Pichai controversies can easily become a threat to company financial loss.
Sunder Pichai involve in a sexual harassment controversy where a report say he did not
handle workers equally and workers were threatened to behave in a specific manner (Jennifer
Elias, 2020). Last year they also involve in tensions between the enterprises and employees
which catch public eye and media. On contract workers the management was in high tension
as and things get really wrong when workers threat the management and also on the ethical
sue of computer technology (Jennifer Elias, 2020). People comes out as a protest and
thousands of employees after a controversial report about high exit payments to mangers
charged with sexual harassment and people demand from the US military .and boarder
security authorities to act against them (Jennifer Elias, 2020).

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2.2.4 BAD MANAGEMENT
According to the source that sunder Pichai is bad at management. For an agile management
the proper methodologies were applied for effective work and if the management is bad in
arranging task to their table the results can be disastrous specially for senior management
and CEOs. With such a responsible chair, mangers are bad at management then no body can
save the company from bad results. For Sunder Pichai it could be very bad for his carrier. In
the latest survey, the company faces new issues and pointed out possible management
concerns and staff were asked for a survey and almost 53 % reactions indicate the bad
management within the organization. ( Monica Torres, 2017).
2.2.5 GOOGLE FACE PROBLEM
Rivalry among Google and Microsoft is long. Previously sunder Pichai worked as a head of
the management of chrome and Android among others the report says that it did not give
enough priority to the product as must as page (Saurabh Singh 2015). The report also shows
that Pichai is an executive who seeks concordance as compared to conflict. Once chrome
and Android were his top priorities, now did not fit.
2.2.6 FILLING A VOID
Avi Greengard a research consultant said that Pichai’s temperament is very calm but
according to him this is not the reason for his CEOs position (Arabian Business, NA).
according to him Pichai was selected for the public face of the company with solid background.
In big companies they generally avoid that news get into under their nose and with situations
they generally need someone to be seated and Sergey and Larry do not look to take interest
in the seat politics. By placing Pichai’s at the seats the Google and alphabet also indicate that
2015 re organization was a mistake and some operations need to be more tightly integrated
(Arabian Business, NA).

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3 REFLECTIVE STATEMENT
3.1 SELF ASSESSED DEVELOPMENT
Here in this section, I will critically analyse myself to identify developmental need regards to personal
effectiveness’s. As discussed above the personal effectiveness varies from person to person as it
depends upon factors like working environment, personal life, goals etc. By considering myself as an
employee of a reputed company the following areas should be improve to achieve a self-satisfactory
post of CEO in the future. The analysis is based on two important aspects, first is the negative and bad
habits I still faced with and secondly by the help of imagination when I get into the company as junior
manager or middle manager where my carrier will be at the starting point. The followings are the
impacts that can cause negative impact on my carrier in future and can cause bad impacts on my
personal and social life.
➢ Lack of self believe
➢ Persistence
➢ Time management
➢ managing stress
➢ Lack of planning
➢ May gets into the controversies

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3.1.1 LACK OF SELF BELIVE
By considering my current status there is less signs of lack of self believes, but the reason of selecting
this into my weakness list is the future concerns. As I mentioned above that I assumed myself as an
employee of a reputed organization like Amazon, Google, Samsung etc. I my face a lot of
responsibilities on my shoulders and I will be answerable to my senior managers there may a
possibility of occurrence of lack of self believe when it comes to large projects and must win – win
situations. The reputed companies which were mentioned above work on the modern and advanced
methodologies like agile framework where different teams were given different small tasks and they
work on the principle of daily report progress. There is a possibility that I may failed and lack of self
believe developed within my brains for future projects.
3.1.2 PERSISTENCE
There is a famous saying that “try, try again”. But in reality, this seems to be difficult. When
we talk about individual’s life struggles and achievements the term persistence plays a vital
role in the development of that person, but when it comes to professional job life this term
may not seems possible. With failures in the company leads you a very difficult situation or
even you may get fired as professional companies hire competent persons and the lack of
errors are minimal. In my case the same situation may occurs with every failure and mistake
there will be an extra pressure to prove myself worth full but if not, this may lead my carrier
to bad situation.

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3.1.3 TIME MANGEMENT
Time management is one of the most important and still effective techniques in every
project in the field. Today almost every company tries to satisfy the customers need and
compete with their rivals in the markets. For this purpose, they totally rely on their
employees to perform tasks within the time and complete their projects and launch it before
their rivals can do it. This healthy and customer favour competition leads to a stressful work
which may lead to lack of management when there is less time and more orders.
3.1.4 MANAGING STRESS
In every reputed organization there is always work load on the staff. As workers with daily
wages were sometimes adjusted in such manners that they were able to take break after
sometime but managers and CEOs does not have such schedule specially in the
manufacturing industry where products orders were always high than production and any
little decision may leads the company to huge losses. Managers with such busy routines
faces issues with stress and which sometimes effects their personal life.
3.1.5 LACK OF PLANNING
As I assumed myself as employee of a reputed organization. There may be times where
projects with less time to be completed. Practically there are a lot of agents that may cause
situations of time lacking in the industry. These agents are holidays other than public
(pandemic in recent times), different uncertain changes in the government, employees and
labour union strikes etc. with these agents sometimes the project may delay or getting
slower than the calculated rate. This is a serious problem for every management within the
organization. To overcome such situations managers follows a strict planning but sometimes
with lack of proper planning and mis read the situation the managers and CEOs could face a
lot of problems.