7:30 p.m. (d)
I like Larry Page.
I think he's the benchmark leader.
I love the way he managed Google, from the start. I think Sergey Brin, and then Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Paul Buchheit, Craig Nevill-Manning, and these people like Omid Kordestani (Pearson) or Salar Kamangar.
Larry Page, ran a good operation. His honesty as a partner, to Sergey, his wealth being on par, with both listed very closely in wealth-rankings, is something very rare (in a world, where most are envious, betray and end relationships), showing his sincerity, his loyalty and good-will.
I admire his original motto, "don't be evil". He put his values into the business. This was copied by every business in the world. Every business depends on Google to function, people depend on Google for their directions home. They check facts with it, to stay alive.
I would say, he combined the best of the best in:
1. vision with his dreams of a research database for academics like Steve,
2. humanistic, friendly team building like Zuck,
3. with a good, free business model that Wozniak would love,
4. he showed humility throughout it, very impressively, like Bill Gates, and
5. he's shown operational precision, similar to Tim Cook.
I admire Larry Page, above all the other leaders of the world, in politics, or business or academia for those reasons.
Although, I have a slightly better haircut