A discussion on Quora on the same topic http://www.quora.com/Google-CEO-Change-2011/What-should-Larry-Page-focus-on-now-that-he-is-CEO-of-Google http://www.quor

A discussion on Quora on the same topic http://www.quora.com/Google-CEO-Change-2011/What-should-Larry-Page-focus-on-now-that-he-is-CEO-of-Google http://www.quora.com/Google-CEO-Change-2011/What-should-Larr... Yishan Wong (previously FaceBook's Director of Engineering )'s suggestions there are interesting e.g " 1. Fire a broad swath of people in the executive and management staff I've talked to quite a few extremely talented and didn't-leave-because-they-were-incompetent Xooglers over the past year at Sunfire (and via other avenues), many of them key early employees. A recurring refrain that I hear is that Google has been taken over by overly-political managers who have laid waste to a formerly meritocratic organization where good ideas get turned into good products, and this has been deadly in two ways: (1) truly good talented people who keep their heads down and get things done are motivated to the leave the company and (2) the organization that remains becomes, by necessity, one that revolves around this internal politicking rather than productive endeavor and shipping products. Identifying these people from above will be hard, because part of being politically skilled includes looking good to the people above you (and the more politically skilled they are, the better they look), so Larry should directly contact a thousand of the best ex-Googlers and ask them to anonymously name 5 people who are still at Google who should be fired, and using a histogram of the results, fire the top 100 names without letting those people "explain" their way out of it. Steve Jobs did something like this when he returned to Apple (except he just walked the halls firing anyone he thought sucked), and this is the data-driven equivalent: a thousand ex-Googlers is enough to even out any personal grudges, and the aggregate information is likely to be highly reliable about who has been climbing without regard for those below them or the good of the organization. "