At the moment, Google’s got a market cap of $131.4 billion, and the search giant is a household name in many different countries.  Managers might do well to emulate its execs’ style, then, and a recent article on cofounder Sergey Brin should help you do exactly that.

Reporter Rob Hof was attending a developer conference in San Francisco when he happened to wind up walking on the street a ways behind Brin.  So for starters, yes, Brin was walking, instead of being chauffeured around in a vehicle that would rival the president’s limo.

Then, Hof noted, “Brin had absolutely no handlers with him, no one telling him where he was scheduled to go next.  I mean, here’s a billionaire, a founder of perhaps the most famous and one of the most successful companies in the world, who presumably has way too many other important things to do.  And yet he’s just ambling along, just another young guy in San Francisco (with no socks, as far as I could tell) . . .”

Hof later continued, “The second thing that struck me was that he was still clearly testing out something on his phone, presumably Latitude.  Surely he has hundreds or thousands of engineers who are already doing this, but he seemed to be taking the responsibility to check out the company’s products himself, in the wild.  In fact, he seemed truly absorbed in it.  This also has to be a good thing, a CEO with an intense interest in his company’s own products.”

So try not to insulate yourself too much from your coworkers and normal people.  Stay involved with product development.  And stay enthusiastic about your work, too, if possible.

Then maybe you’ll get to the point where, like Brin, you’ll at least always have the option of taking a private jet.  Just consider wearing socks the whole time.

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