Maybe it has nothing with the continuing rumors over Steve Jobs’ health, but Google seems to be making a special effort this week to show off its deep executive bench.

This week’s OSCON show in Portland features talks from five Googlers, the headliner being open source programs manager Chris DeBona.

Ben Collins-Sussman, Leslie Hawthorn, Steve Souders, and Alex Martelli will also represent the Googleplex, but none are liable to draw a single groupie. (Or appear on the cover of Time, right.)

When I turned on CNBC for news about Google adding real-time ticker support there was an interview with a Googler, but again it was not with any of the top dogs.

This is actually a very good thing. A large, growing company wants to show that it has a deep bench and sending five speakers to OSCON helps show off the company’s open source commitment.

But every great company is a dictatorship. We have found no model for building corporations beyond the entrepreneurial one. Even GE, the only original Dow Jones component to still be on the list, has in fact had a succession of absolut