What Sundar Pichai Did Right?

I read this article written by a PM working at Google about what separated Sundar from his peers. 

"Besides being incredibly talented and hardworking like many of his coworkers and peers, Sundar did a few things:

Foremost, he led successful efforts for difficult projects that were core to Google's continued financial success, namely Toolbar and Chrome. Toolbar wasn't an obviously sexy product but it helped defend the presence of Google search on users' computers during a critical period following the revelation of Google's incredible profitability. Chrome extended that mission to improve the user experience of the entire web: keep users on the web and you'll keep them searching on Google.

He recruited, mentored, and retained a great team. Sundar's team of product managers had a reputation as being among the best of the best, similar to the reputation of the software engineers within Search Quality.

He avoided making enemies. Google has politics like any other large company, and Sundar navigated those politics to make his team successful while inflicting the least possible damage on any other team."

It's amazing to see how a little known soft-spoken manager becomes the second most important person at Google (the first being the co-founder Larry Page) and one of the most important CEOs in the world.