University of Suffolk: Jeff Bezos Leadership Presentation, Spring 2020

This presentation examines the leadership of Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, focusing on his personal and professional development. It explores his leadership qualities, style, and the lessons derived from his approach. The presentation begins with an overview of leadership, defining it as the ability to influence subordinates, and then introduces Amazon as a multinational technology company. It highlights Bezos' key skills, including self-confidence and motivation, and identifies his transformational leadership style. The presentation outlines the benefits of this style, such as fostering entrepreneurs and setting clear goals. It concludes with key takeaways from Bezos' leadership and a list of references used in the presentation.

Personal and
Professional
Development
JEFF BEZOS

Introduction
– Personal and professional development can be referred to as a prolonged procedure
whereby individuals leverage their skills, knowledge base and competency to attain
the goals and objectives set by them in personal and corporate settings.
– The presentation is based upon Jeff Bezos who is the CEO of Amazon, an e-
commerce company dealing in wide variety of products.
– The presentation throws light upon his leadership qualities, style and lessons gained
from his perception of leadership as a whole.

Literature on Leadership
– The wide literature upon leadership presents that it is an ability of an individual
named leader to influence the behaviour exhibited by the subordinates.
– The influence in most of the cases is placed in a manner which results in boosting
the morale of employees and enhancing their productivity levels until the leader
is recognised to be abusing their power.
– A leader has the option of adopting a leadership style which is aligned with the
present situation and requirements of the company.

Overview of the Company - Amazon
Amazon is acknowledged to be a multinational
conglomerate technological company based in the
confines of Seattle, America. This entity is engaged
in a number of products and services inclusive of e-
commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and
artificial intelligence. This company is regarded as
one of the Big 4 firms together with other top notch
firms like Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Introduction to the Leader - Jeff Bezos
– Jeffrey Preston Bezos is a well renowned American industrialist,
pioneer and media owner. He is better acknowledged for being the
president, CEO and organizer of online retail entity named Amazon.
– He is recognised as the most extravagant man in present day history
since 2017 and in 2018. Under his leadership, the company turned
out to be the second organization to arrive at a market capital of $1
trillion.

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Jeff Bezos is a leader having aptitude like administration, self motivation, passion and
zeal fostering him to take risks and set an example for employees of Amazon.

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– The main intent of Jeff has always been to work in a manner which can set an
example for the employees pertinent to Amazon.
– When the staff members get to learn from a visionary leader like Jeff Bezos,
they tend to get encouraged. This makes them put their full potential in all the
organisational tasks so as to achieve the corporate objectives in due course of
time.

Skills of Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the big name in the world of global leaders and business deals.
Over the course of time, he has earned extensive recognition and praise for his
exceptional leadership skills and traits. In this relation, it is acknowledged that
he has high level of self-confidence and is active towards work all the time.
Further, it is evident that he acts as the key motivator for his people and other
stakeholders. Jeff Bezos has attractive personality, effective calibre to speak and
translate and brilliant mind to guide others as an exceptional and true leader.

Leadership Style of Jeff Bezos
–Leadership can be comprehensively defined as the capability of an individual
to influence the behaviour of others in a positive manner.
–In this relation, it has been identified that Jeff Bezos follows transformational
leadership style which has committed relationship between leader and follower.
–Using this leadership, Amazon with Jeff as the founder and CEO has reached
great heights and tag of the Forbes world richest company.

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–Through transformational leadership, Jeff has made world class entrepreneurs
on the global platform and each & every person has proper knowledge of what
to do under Jeff’s leadership.
–This leadership is based on setting short span of time goals planned to achieve
and give training to its employees to remove chances of failure.
–Jeff has introduced a number of transformations within the company by
following this leadership style only.

Takeaways from leadership of Jeff Bezos
There are five main key takeaways from Jeff Bezos’ style of transformation
leadership which says that:-
Care about your vision,
Improve thinking and simplify the message to increase its reach,
Always stay committed to your goals,
Know about your market
Never ever miss every opportunity to self promote.

Conclusion
–A leader has their own set of characteristics, skills, traits and knowledge that
distinguishes them from the other leaders across the globe.
–Besides this, it has been acknowledged that a leader leverage their skills,
traits and characteristics to provide proper guidance and support to the
employee base.
–This helps in deriving high performance from staff as well as ensuring that
tasks get completed in predefined course of time period.