Leadership styles of Larry Page and Steve Jobs compared

Enrepreneurship

Research leading entrepreneurs determine entrepreneurial approaches -- categories: (1) profit oriented, (2) social responsibility oriented 1.Analyze describe founding leader(s), leadership style, major business principles a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach primary goal provide a product service consumers make a profit.

Two leading entrepreneurs: Socially-oriented and profit-minded

Socially-oriented leadership: Larry Page

Although its motto is 'don't be evil,' Google is a for-profit company. However, it manages to leverage its idealism in a fashion that is well-suited to the image and success of its product. It is an Internet company that is dependent above all upon the dissemination of knowledge. Google co-founder Larry Page places a strong emphasis on innovation at his company. Google's engineers are allowed to spend part of their time on personal projects, as a way of encouraging the company's top talent to generate the ideas of the future. Google trusts in the intelligence of its employees, and encourages them to view their job as fun, rather than as work. With free food, fitness classes, yoga, on-premises healthcare and dry-cleaning, Google headquarters feels more like a camp than a place to go to work. Page's orientation is also manifest in terms of how he allocates organizational resources: "Spending $1 billion on patents offers an important clue to what matters most to Page: innovation" (Elmer 2011). Page is continually tweaking Google's core products to make them better, even though it is unrivaled as a search engine: "By tackling big ideas 'that could really change the world,' you attract incredibly smart people and achieve something worthwhile, even if it's not your original goal,' he said at the Google Faculty Summit in 2009" (Elmer 2011).

SCORE resources

The type of leadership embodied by Larry Page is relatively new, yet there are resources to help individuals become better leaders in this new style: SCORE offers online mentors for individuals staring new businesses. It also offers online workshops on subjects such as personal productivity that are valuable in crafting a new business model for a ground-breaking virtual enterprise, such as Google once was. It also offers financial resources on budgeting, which is essential given that even a socially-minded company must still make a profit and balance its expenditures with its desire to 'share the wealth' with employees and compensate them fairly.