{"id":43709,"date":"2023-10-20T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/google-chief-executive-sundar-pichais-secret-to-great-leadership-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:34","slug":"google-chief-executive-sundar-pichais-secret-to-great-leadership-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/google-chief-executive-sundar-pichais-secret-to-great-leadership-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Google chief executive Sundar Pichai&#8217;s secret to great leadership &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure>                             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sundar-Pichai-SuS-640x336.jpeg\" alt=\"Sundar Pichai\" title=\"INDIA GOOGLE\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">                               Source: EPA\/RAJAT GUPTA                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The secret to successful leadership lies not in the ability of the ruling leader but in their ability to build other great leaders, says Google chief executive Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less about trying to be successful (yourself), and more about making sure you have good people and your work is to remove that barrier, remove roadblocks for them so that they can be successful in what they do,&#8221; said Pichai during a recent visit to the Indian Institute of Technology in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai graduated from the college in 1993 and visited it after more than 20 years this month, reports<em>&nbsp;Quartz India<\/em>&nbsp;roving editor Devjyot Ghoshal.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai&nbsp;revealed how heavily vested his leadership is in collaboration and empowering others during a talk to a small group of students at the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have an outstanding leadership team,&#8221; said Pichai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s learning to let go and really empowering people at all levels of the organisation, and trusting them to doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a leader, a lot of your job is to make those people successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s this approach, says Ghoshal, that has catapulted Pichai to the top job at Google in just 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPichai emerged as the nice guy who could pull teams together and get work done,\u201d says Ghoshal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on&nbsp;Facebook,&nbsp;Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: EPA\/RAJAT GUPTA The secret to successful leadership lies not in the ability of the ruling leader but in their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}