Management Attribution and Skills

Running head: MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTION AND SKILLS
Management Attribution and Skills
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1MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTION AND SKILLS
Introduction of Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky is an American entrepreneur and he was the co-founder of hospitality
exchange service company Airbnb. Brian Chesky is the CEO of Airbnb and he was named as
‘100 most influential people’ in the year 2015 by the Time’s Magazine. Brian Chesky was born
in 1981 in New York. Brian Chesky graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where he
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Industrial Design (Press.atairbnb.com 2018). Net worth of
Brian Chesky was US$ 3.8 billion in 2017 (Gallagher 2017). Brian Chesky sets the strategy of
the company to connect people to provide a unique travel experience.
a. Explaining skills and competencies which have contributed to the success of the business
After his college days; Brian Chesky started working as an industrial designer and
strategist in Los Angeles. After sometimes; Chesky shared his apartment with Gebbia in San
Francisco. Both of them needed money and they gave their room for rent. They named their first
website ‘Air Bed and Breakfast' and at first; Chesky did not believe that this business has a flash
of genius (Lewis 2015). Brian Chesky has the skill to channelize his vision to do something
good. Brian Chesky grew up to be an artist and this is similar of an entrepreneur what has the
vision to be free to create something new. Artist has the resources to create something new and
the entrepreneur also shares the vision to bring it to the world. Brian Chesky believes that
frequent advisors tell many things to do and not to do. Being an entrepreneur, Brian always
encouraged himself to knock on doors to meet the users and investors face-to-face. This is not
possible for millions of users; however, this policy helps to make loyalty among users and
customers. Brian Chesky has the ability to tell the story well to the people, to the customers,
investors, media and the employees. Brian focused on the entrepreneurship on first three years
very hard and he did not know the coding well. Brian asked Nathan Blecharczyk to join Airbnb
as Nathan was a Harvard Graduate and famous technical architect. Therefore; Brian Chesky
showed the ability to manage money as they sold cereals to have funding (Cohen and Sundarajan
2015). Brain Chesky did not brainstorm start-up ideas and he just solved the problem. Moreover,
Brian always had the idea to build the platform is tough; therefore; he made the platform for both
sellers and buyers via Airbnb.
b. Describing Brian Chesky’s management and leadership style