Marissa Mayer: Innovation Leader
We often talk about GOOGLE in our classes as a very intereting case study as a company with a "dynamic" business strategy and evolving business model. At the forefront of the business model and strategy is the steady stream of innovative products, services, and acquisitions.
Business Week has an article profiling one of the "Leaders of Innovation" at GOOGLE. Marissa Mayer. The article: "Marissa Mayer: Talent Scout" is an interesting study in leadership and management. From the article "She thrives by practicing obsessive fastidiousness in hiring, fanatical social networking in managing, and apolitical critiquing of new ideas."
The article logs one of her days and has a slide show feature.
What do you think of her leadership and management style?
Gene A. Wright
posted by Gene A. Wright @ 12:09 PM
5 Comments:
Marissa's approach is very rapid which is necessary for an Internet giant like google.
I also found the openess of ideas and sharing (Share everthing you can on the intranet) different than traditional methods. This really puts the value into the ideas not into the people who hold on to them. Knowledge is power but more knowledge is gained if shared and more power to the company if all can see it.
-bod
Marissa is definitely engaged with her function at Google, and from the looks of it, is given freedom to manage from Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Definitely well educated herself, with a strong background of education and science, it’s no wonder she feels comfortable hiring and attracting the best talent, including Rhodes Scholars. Supporting a global talent hunt sounds strategic. Google is headquartered in Mountain View, California, but has offices in over 40 countries (http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/international.html). Quoting the Google website on who they are trying to attract, “Our most valuable resource is our people: energetic, innovative thinkers who care equally about doing great work and developing a culture that's great for all our employees.” The website mentions that Googlers have been Olympic athletes, Jeopardy champions, professional chefs, and independent film makers, which implies your background does not have to be Engineering or science based. It would be interesting to know, from within Google, how successful these new hires become, or their development path. Using Marissa as an example, your future could be bright.
It is very refreshing to see that a major executive like Marissa is still in touch with what is happening at the lowest levels of the company. I would assume that it takes a tremendous amount of time to review all the people that google hires.
Hiring not only the people that are most capable for the job and the ones that are brilliant will take the company a lot further than just looking for a specific task to be filled. Google is a company that needs people that think and that will take it to the next level. That is their competitive edge.
I am also very impressed with her schedule. She is very dedicated to her position and her schedule shows it.
Marissa Meyers strongest leadership quality is competence. She has the ability to say it, plan it, and do it, in ways that others will follow her. She hires brilliant people, who are in most part, a model of herself. Independent thinkers, who show up every day with the goal of improving an existing product, by following through with excellent results, and accomplishing more than is expected.
-jjr
Imagine if every topic could braintease ideas to be listed in only 10 minutes. Meetings would take less time and end more productive.
By publishing the entire bit of work enables all employees to review, incorporate, and collaborate, producing a better product and stronger employees.
Her management style seems to have sharp ends but may soften into a leadership style that employees will respect and follow.
akk
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