Insights And Reflections On The Google Story

            The Google Story is about the democrat-oriented media company, google, powered by the most advanced technology available on planet earth, that has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere, in a matter of a few short years. “In 1998, Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.” How to make a business work. To make a business work effectively, some principles have to be applied to the organization of the business. These principles include: ensuring that the various business disciplines interact efficiently, proper communication and organization skills, data analysis, problem solving, and team dynamics. How various business disciplines interact: Optimism is very important in any business, and “You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. Page observed that “Having a healthy disregard for the impossible is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not.” Vise, D.A., and Malseed, M.(2006).

Data analysis and problem solving – how to determine what is happening and how to make good decisions: Teamwork/People Interactions. Team dynamics, relationships and roles: The founders of Google displayed a supreme confidence about their achievements and vision. Brin and Page had been on a roll ever since they started working together. “They wanted no one-neither competitors nor outside investors-to come between them or interfere in any way. That combination of dependence on each other, and independence from everyone else, had contributed immeasurably to their astounding success.” Vise, D. A., and Malseed, M.(2006). Communication and organization skills: Leaders and followers: Getting to the top is never easy, more so, when you are at the top, there are a lot of difficulties to face, and success requires patience and perseverance. In the click of a mouse, Google replaced Microsoft as the place for the world’s top technologists to work, but “they knew that maintaining the pace of innovation and the mantle of leadership would be no easy feat, since they faced a deeper-pocketed competitor in Microsoft, and a ruthless combatant in its chief, the billionaire Bill Gates.” Vise, D. A., and Malseed, M. (2006). Team decision-making processes: Other Lessons.

The founders of google adopted an unorthodox approach to business that has enabled the company to challenge the dominance of the Microsoft Corporation, and shake up Wall Street. Even as Google rides high, the organization has wrestled with plenty of difficult choices that could enable it to continue in its track of expansion, while sustaining and upholding the vision of its founders’ mantra, which states: “DON’T BE EVIL”. This shows a degree of flexibility which is good for every business organization. There must also be continuous expansion, for a business to be successful. David Vise observed that Google is in talks with AOL’s parent, Time Warner, about a variety of possibilities that range from buying a minority stake in America Online to expanding the partnership that already exists. The goal would be to create more revenue by working more closely together, in one form or another. Microsoft wants to replace Google as the search engine of choice on AOL with its MSN Search. Those talks are less likely, I’m told, to lead to a deal because of a variety of complexities.David Vise, (2005).

References.

Vise, David A., and Mark Malseed. (2006). The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time. Paperback ed. Dell Pub. Vise D. (2005) Transcript of the Google Story, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 15,; 12:00 PM