(PDF) Leadership and Management: Assignment
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Leadership andManagement
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6.........................................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTIONLeadership is an ability which helps an individual to motivate and influence the memberof a team or company (Bolden, 2016). This helps in achievements of tasks in an effectivemanner. Management is a procedure which helps in controlling the individuals and all theactivities of an organisation which is important for accomplishment of business goals. Thepresent report is based on the profile of Warren Buffet, an investor, business magnate, andspeaker etc. This report includes career position, leadership styles, life achievement, careerachievement and their contribution to the society.MAIN BODY1.Name: Warren Buffet 2.Career position: Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.3.Career path: Warren Buffett started earning from his childhood as he use to work withhid grandfather's grocery store and sold newspapers at the age of 6. At 11, he startedinvestment in stock markets. He got chance to study under Benjamin Graham, who isconsider as the father of value investing. Benjamin refused to give job to Buffett and hewent to Omaha, where he started working with his father in brokerage firm. Buffettstarted his first business in that he sold weekly magazines, chewing gums and bottles ofCoca-Cola. After sometime Graham offer him a job opportunity in New York (Simonetand Tett, 2013). There he create investment theories for value investment. Buffett takethis theory at next level as he wants to concentrate on management and competitiveadvantage of the firm rather than the numbers. In 1956, he launched his own companyBuffett Association. He also buy Berkshire Hathaway a textile business but after sometime he closed his business. He use to buy securities at discounted rates and use to holdthem until their prices goes high. He purchased large stocks in many companies like CocaCola, Gillette Company and American Express. 4.Personal circumstances: Warren Buffett was born in 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska. he isthe second child among the three children. He has one younger and one elder sister. Hisfather was a stock broker and four time U.S. Congressman. His mother, Leila StahlBuffett, she was a home-maker. He was very much interested in business from early age.Warren use to visit his fathers' stock brokerage office when he was a child and he started1
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