Larry Page, Google CEO, hates meetings, hates e-mail, likes bathroom breaks and wants the search giant to be a more focused, more agile and faster-moving company. And not everyone at Google is happy about it. “It’s much more of a style like Steve Jobs than the three-headed monster that Google was,” said a former Google executive who has spoken with current executives about the changes and spoke anonymously to preserve business relationships. “When Eric was there, you’d walk into a product meeting or a senior staff meeting, and everyone got to weigh in on every decision. Larry is much more willing to make an O.K. decision and make it now, rather than a perfect decision later.” Here’s New York Times’ profile of Google’s Page:
Ever since taking over as C.E.O., I have focused much of my energy on increasing Google’s velocity and execution, and we’re beginning to see results – Larry Page, Google CEO