Team Oriented Larry Page

     According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2015),  team refers to a group of people who work together at a particular job while oriented refers to direct somebody or something towards something beside to make or  adapt somebody  or something for a particular purpose. Thus, team oriented refers to someone works with others effectively and able to contribute in achievement of organization and group targets. They will accept responsibility and ownership project sharing and can maintain communicate with team members with open mind. They usually utilize strength  of individuals within group to the benefits of the team. 

     Larry Page shows team oriented in leading his team. Larry Page is a Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist. He born in Michigan in 1973. His parent were computer experts influenced him to follow footsteps to study computer engineering at Stanford University and he met Sergey Brin. Larry and Brin collaborate on the project called “Backrub” In 1996. This project investigated the method of sites be linked back to different web pages. They worked together and realized helping people find pages with more incoming links which is particularly from credible websites. They desire to create search engine(Kettler, 2014)in 1998.They developed and created “Google”. Google becomes the most popular search engine in the world after launching. The Google averaging user nearly at 3 billion queries searches per day, 90 billion searches per month or 1.1 trillion searches per year in 2012.

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     Larry Page shows team oriented in recruiting his team. Larry always looks for  new candidates by giving a confirmation  to interviewees within weeks. As a team player, he passionate in hiring employees from others country to  aim for diverse workforce and various backgrounds. He is  equality and open minded because he used to hire people from various race, nationality and religion.  He always recruit the excellent people in different fields to fulfil his demands in build up the best team. He requires  team work with creative ideals for Google.

     Moreover, Larry Page shows team oriented in communicating with his employees. Larry Page believes “Google should be like a family” so that Google get better productivity. He used to  ignore about hours worked, he  always pays attentions to the output. He builds stronger relationships with his subordinates when implementing the best things he can do for them. He will interview the employees know their demands. He has been asked the 40000 main staffs and employees out to write him 60-word updates on their current projects. He encourages quick decisions making. The top executives only have to go for meeting once per week to discuss and make faster choice. It saves time and efficiency of employee  at Google is higher. 

     Larry Page shows team oriented in motivating his team. He prefers his employees to feel they are having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of the community. Google strives to remain an open culture so everyone feels comfortable when sharing opinions and ideas to others. Google’s organizational structure is moderate, it tilts towards the flat side. The employees’ positions are divided based ob their interests. Thus, the hybrid multidivisional structure is more advance to Google. So, the centralized are able to plan as small business units have flexible thinking and they are innovative. He provides employees with  financial and non-financial motivation. Larry  believes that treating people well  could build a top team. 

       As a conclusion, we believe that a leader should be team oriented to lead his team to achieve the goal of company. Thus, the young entrepreneurs should start to participate in seminars and course to gain higher level confidence and be a good leader.