Leadership: Lessons from Jack Ma, Co-founder of Alibaba

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Executive Summary
Leadership is both an art as well as a skill and those organizations which are involved in the
domain of the corporate external environment need to ensure that they have a good leader who
will help the different people in achieving their objectives and ensure that the organization
achieves a competitive advantage. The report is based on one such inspirational leader named
Jack Ma, the co-founder and executive chairperson at Ali Baba. The report covers various crucial
topic related to leadership like the lessons to be learnt from Ma, the different challenges he faced,
his strengths as well as weaknesses and the vision he had. Various theoretical concepts along
with practical examples have been used.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
About Jack ma.................................................................................................................................3
Visions the leader has for the organization......................................................................................4
Challenges the leader has to faced...................................................................................................5
Strengths and weakness of the leader..............................................................................................6
The risks the leader has undertaken.................................................................................................8
Lesson(s) we can learn about this person as a leader......................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
A leader guides the organization and helps the members in achieving their goals. Any
organization with an efficient leader will be successfully able to achieve all its goals and
objectives and may also be able to achieve s sustainable competitive advantage in the long run.
Hence, in order to be successful in the long run, it is very successful for an individual to adopt
the traits which are present in a leader as these traits go a long way in assisting an individual to
achieve success (Anderson & Sun 2017). The primary aim of the given report is to highlight the
journey of one such leader named Jack Ma. Jack Ma is the founder and the executive chairperson
of the Ali Baba enterprise. The report will be highlighting the journey of the leader and cover
areas like the challenges being faced by them, the strengths and weaknesses of the leader, the
risks Jack Ma has undertaken and the different lessons which can be learnt about the leader.
Analysis
About Jack ma
Jack Ma is a Chinese business philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairperson
of the Alibaba Group. According to a poll on August 2018, Jack Ma is one of the richest men in
China with a net worth of more than US$ 38.6 billion (Financialpost.com. 2018). The Chinese
business is at its present state because of Ma and has been defined to be one of the most powerful
personalities in the globe. Recently, he announced his retirement and will be continuing charity
work from September 10. His reign as the head of Alibaba has taken the business as well as the
Chinese economy to new heights. Co-incidentally Jack Ma was born on 10th of September in
1964 and began studying English at an early age and practiced it with foreign tourists. He was
nicknamed Jack by them because his original name was difficult to pronounce (Tsui, Zhang &