Eric Schmidt Fired? Starting April 4 Larry Page to Take On Google’s CEO Position

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Breaking news, folks, Google’s CEO, famous Eric Schmidt, is stepping down from that CEO position he’s occupied for a bunch of years. Or in other words, he was just fired. How else would you better describe such a decision?

We’ve seen a bunch of CEOs step down this year from various reasons. Nokia and HP have new leaders at their helms and, considering that Steve Jobs has taken a medical leave of absence, one might say that even Apple is going to rely on an interim CEO, quite possibly Tim Cook, that will oversee operations while Jobs is away. But why is Google changing CEOs at this time?

Eric Schmidt will be replaced as CEO starting with April 4 by Larry Page, one of Google’s co-founders, but he will continue to serve under Google’s new management assuming the Executive Chairman decision. Eric Schmidt explains it all in a personal blog entry and apparently blames it all on the current success of the company:

And as our results today show, the outlook is bright. But as Google has grown, managing the business has become more complicated. So Larry, Sergey and I have been talking for a long time about how best to simplify our management structure and speed up decision making—and over the holidays we decided now was the right moment to make some changes to the way we are structured.

We’ll call “bullshit” here, as this is definitely a very strange move. So does Google mean to say they are too big to be properly managed by a person that was in charge of everything happening with the company for no less than 10 years? And, in order to simplify the whole management procedure that person that should be aware of everything that has happened with Google in the past decade will step down in favor of a replacement?

Sure, Larry Page, as one of the co-founders of the company is certainly aware of everything Google too and, undoubtedly he’s part of Google’s growth, but should he really take that CEO spot? After all Eric Schmidt did perform quite admirably in fighting Apple and everyone else so there’s no apparent reason for sending him to the background. Did he do any evil? I can’t wait to see the movie based on this!