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There are lot of speculations that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt might take a break from his office as Google’s CEO. However, there are no official announcements to this effect. These speculations suggest that Eric Schmidt might be taking up some position in the America’s new President’s administration. Eric Schmidt has been taking with Google for over 7 years and he has been highly successful in growing Google into a $20 billion company during his tenure. Google has seen great success and reached its glory during his term.

There could be number of reasons for this move by Eric Schmidt. Speculations suspect that this might be the ideal time to take a break from Google; taking Google to the next level can be more challenging than taking Google to the $20 billion mark. Under financially stressful times, holding on to that $20 billion mark itself could be hard enough and taking it to $40 billion can be an almost impossible feat. Google is already planning to cut down costs by retrenching thousands of employees. Even Google is not immune to the effects of credit crunch. If it has to keep itself afloat, they have to do some thing decisive. This being the situation, Eric Schmidt is bound to feel the heat and if Google has to slide from its glory owing to the current financial situations, then it would become another Jerry Yang episode – Google’s CEO certainly would not wish this to happen to him. Does this mean that Google’s CEO too speculates or smells something?

As we can easily observe, Google has tried almost everything with the search industry and been successful too with 90% of its efforts. Now this cycle is likely to come to an end. If the company has to grow and reach the next level then it is important that Google launch another product that gets the attention of the crowd failing which life at Google could get boring. For people such as Eric Schmidt, a less challenging work environment can be unpalatable. Probably Eric Schmidt too wants to follow Larry Page in solving world’s energy crisis. One’s goal will shift interest only when the challenges become less challenging. If the challenges are big, enough then they will not have time to look for other interests that will feed their abilities and talents.

Now the question is if Eric Schmidt has to step down for whatever reasons, how will it affect the online search experience? Is Google’s success dependent on individuals or its business models that are independent of foundation figures? Though every organization tries to build its business model independent of top management, inevitably at one stage or the other the entire business model disappears behind individual personalities. Therefore, in Google’s case too we need to wait and see how far Google is able to fair the weather without Eric Schmidt. All the competitors are just waiting for a leeway to leverage their success and all eyes are on Google.