Is it though? He hasn't really moved the needle for Google at all other than capitalizing on growth laid out by his predecessors. Satya is far more admired for his accomplishments comparitivly.
Satya is favorably compared to Balmer, whose effectiveness is constantly understated for reasons unknown to me. Anyone who takes over from an unpopular leader gets bimus points for not being unpopular.
Agreed. I have seen this similar scenario played in many context An organization is failing. Owners / Board of directors decides to put in new leader and outgoing leader will take all the blame, valid or not. I think all parties agree on this so that incoming leader can start afresh and also taking credit successes of past initiatives while failures attributed to past leaders. That way they can add to credibility of new leader.
