The word leadership is all about developing the perspective, skills to get result that matter. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of organization as it helps to identify the difference between success and failure. Though it seems complex sometime, but by analyzing on some of its important part it would be easy to lead team with confidence and skill. It can be on any sector such as, community leadership, religious leadership, and political leadership. Likewise, leaders are the people who set the direction, use management skills to guide the people, staffs to the right path effectively and efficiently. This essay is about one of the renowned leader ‘’Jeff Bezos’’ a founder and chief executive of Amazon.com where we discuss the characteristics
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So, many theories have been formed on time basis to influence the effectiveness of leaders.
Trait theories (1930’s-1940’s) which believes that different people are born with qualities such as, intelligence, sense of responsibility and creativity which helps to be a good leader. This theory helps to identify the characteristics or combination that seems to be common among leaders by analyzing their mental traits such as intelligence, physical traits such as, height and social traits such as personality characteristics. In extent, there were several problems with this theory. In 1930’s trait research was not concerned with theory, there was no explanation, no sufficient information for the intended relationship between leadership and individual characteristics as well as fails to explain the leadership failures. At last, early trait research found the relationship between leader traits and leader effectiveness was not considerable due to situational variables. Similarly, Behavioral theory is about creating and offering a new perspective which focus on leader’s behavior on their reverse to mental, physical and social characteristics. In this theory leaders may prove individual’s behavior and …show more content…
In 1990, he became the youngest senior VP investment firm D.E. Shaw. And after some extent he quit the job and started the job on amazon.com which becomes the internet’s popular success business. The internal success of the company was very fast. Later on amazon.com sold book into more than 45 foreign countries and within two month of duration sales reached $20000 a week without any press promotion. In 1997, Amazon.com become public and Bezos started to diversified Amazon by offering with the sale of CDs and videos and in 2006, he launched Amazon’s video which is also known as Amazon Unbox on TiVo. One year later Bezos publicized his investment in Blue origin a aerospace company which helps paying customers by developing the technology to space travel and again establish Amazon into tablet marketplace along with revealing of the kindle fire in 2011 and in same year he presented the new kindle fire HD, and designed new tablet to give Apple’s ipad a run for its money. After two years, in 2013, he bought the “Washington Post’ and other publication related with the company for $250 million. In spite of his great investment post could not went well and later on the chairman of company said ‘the post could have survived under the company’s ownership and been profitable for the foreseeable future’
So, many theories have been formed on time basis to influence the effectiveness of leaders.
Trait theories (1930’s-1940’s) which believes that different people are born with qualities such as, intelligence, sense of responsibility and creativity which helps to be a good leader. This theory helps to identify the characteristics or combination that seems to be common among leaders by analyzing their mental traits such as intelligence, physical traits such as, height and social traits such as personality characteristics. In extent, there were several problems with this theory. In 1930’s trait research was not concerned with theory, there was no explanation, no sufficient information for the intended relationship between leadership and individual characteristics as well as fails to explain the leadership failures. At last, early trait research found the relationship between leader traits and leader effectiveness was not considerable due to situational variables. Similarly, Behavioral theory is about creating and offering a new perspective which focus on leader’s behavior on their reverse to mental, physical and social characteristics. In this theory leaders may prove individual’s behavior and …show more content…
In 1990, he became the youngest senior VP investment firm D.E. Shaw. And after some extent he quit the job and started the job on amazon.com which becomes the internet’s popular success business. The internal success of the company was very fast. Later on amazon.com sold book into more than 45 foreign countries and within two month of duration sales reached $20000 a week without any press promotion. In 1997, Amazon.com become public and Bezos started to diversified Amazon by offering with the sale of CDs and videos and in 2006, he launched Amazon’s video which is also known as Amazon Unbox on TiVo. One year later Bezos publicized his investment in Blue origin a aerospace company which helps paying customers by developing the technology to space travel and again establish Amazon into tablet marketplace along with revealing of the kindle fire in 2011 and in same year he presented the new kindle fire HD, and designed new tablet to give Apple’s ipad a run for its money. After two years, in 2013, he bought the “Washington Post’ and other publication related with the company for $250 million. In spite of his great investment post could not went well and later on the chairman of company said ‘the post could have survived under the company’s ownership and been profitable for the foreseeable future’