Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
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Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#2Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#3Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
Vic Gundotra's ego resulted in G+. If G+ is innovation, I don't want innovation.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#4Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
That sounds like a non-sequitur. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html come to mind.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#5Sunder Pichai is boring.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#6Sunder Pichai is boring.
I'm quite sure he is not working as Google's CEO to amuse you.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#7Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
That sounds like a non-sequitur. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html come to mind.
I wasn't equating ego to meanness, more a disregard of what other people think about them, not being afraid to fail also not to compromise their product to make everyone happy and ending up with a washed down product.
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#8Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
That sounds like a non-sequitur. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html come to mind.
I wonder if, in the future, people will compile these writings into a book with numbers for easy reference of quotes. They could also add testaments of things He said as recorded by His disciples.
We could call it "The Book of Graham".
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#9Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
Vic Gundotra's ego resulted in G+. If G+ is innovation, I don't want innovation.
You might not like G+ but it IS innovation. Everything one does in slighly different way is innovation, if you don't want that, you would have to abandon pretty much everything except wheel and fire.
I also don't think that creator's ego is a factor in product's success. There are many egotistical entrepreneurs with successful products. People might not like creators, but they like the product.
So isn't the best strategy to let the market determine if something is worth it or not? I'm sure G+ has got its valuation...
Re: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like a non-sequitur. http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html come to mind.
I wasn't equating ego to meanness, more a disregard of what other people think about them, not being afraid to fail also not to compromise their product to make everyone happy and ending up with a washed down product.
I think we fool ourselves into believing there is external pressure for quick, dirty, please everyone, "will fix it later" solutions when no one sane asks for that.
Modern management is trying to apply command and control to creative endeavours, and usually forces everyone to fail.
Sometimes it's possible to wander around, rejecting the views of everyone else and creating a perfect product. More often you get something no one wants.
A better approach is to have enough time and money to walk in the right direction, carefully. No matter how many times I think of the idea of a start up running ahead I think of disorganised mob, not a disciplined army.
The goal is to take a disciplined army into the unknown.
not a rabble egged on by a crazy guy, or a goose.