He also talked co-founder Page into relaxing his famously centralized hiring protocol so Arora could staff up more quickly. Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, says Arora's moves signaled the start of a "federating" of Google as it transitioned from a U.S.-centric search engine into a global powerhouse. Google Europe hit $8 billion in revenue in five years, doubling Arora's initial projection and increasing its share of Google's revenue from 25% to nearly 50%.
Aruora also created analytics tools that spat out daily reports on the health of the European business, something the rest of the company eventually adopted. The tools helped Arora spot the 2008 financial crisis early, alerting the mother ship that something was amiss and enabling Google to adjust spending ahead of a slow quarter. That was invaluable, Schmidt says: "After that I decided anything Nikesh wanted to do, I wanted to do as well."
Aha.. what's the moral of the story here?
Inadequate journalism, that's what. If Fortune was really worth reading, they would have a side note tellng us we could go online and see how you can create such reports for yourself. Why not empower people to be more effective? Come on guys..
