Individual Presentation: Leadership Qualities of Jeff Bezos at Amazon

This presentation examines the leadership of Jeff Bezos and its crucial role in the growth and success of Amazon. It delves into Bezos's transformational leadership style, emphasizing his ability to identify areas needing change and develop a long-term vision to guide employees. The presentation highlights his focus on inspiring employees, executing change, and fostering an innovative workforce. It also explores key leadership qualities such as long-term thinking and adaptability. The analysis concludes that Bezos's approach, including elements of informational leadership, has been instrumental in making Amazon a leader in online retail by continuously enhancing employee skills and adapting to a fast-changing environment. The presentation references several academic sources to support its findings.

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Presentation Paper
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Table of Content
 Introduction
 Leadership style and its role in growth and success of
Amazon
 Leadership Qualities of Jeff Bezos
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Leadership is referred as an act of leading a particular group of people
or a company. Good leaders set direction and develops an inspiring
vision that helps in developing something new and accomplishing
success. They direct their team members and provide them with the
right path to accomplish organisational as well as individual goals.
This presentation is based on analysis of leadership styles or skills of
Jeff Bezos and the role that leadership play in accomplishing overall
success of Amazon.

Leadership and its role in growth and success
of Amazon
Leadership is the process which are adopted
by executive and top level management of
an organization for guiding directing and
influencing the behaviour of all the
employees working in the company towards
the common objectives that is
accomplishment of specific goal of the
company or the given situation.

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The leadership style which is used by him for running and making the
organization a success is transformational leadership style. This is a
theory of leadership where the leaders work with their team members
in order to identify the areas and different regions in which change is
required. Once these areas are identified then a vision is created by
the leaders to guide the employees by inspiring them and executing
the change.

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The approach of Jeff Bezos allows the workforce of Amazon to see
all the separate situations and the outcomes in just few hours and
allowing them to just themselves the effectiveness of their
viewpoints. This intellectual and imaginational approach of the
leader of Amazon results in the most innovative and productive
workforce of the organisation.

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It is certainly considered and concluded that transformational
behaviour of Bezos made him and inspirational and motivational
leader with the element of informational leadership styles there the
leaders always focus over the vision of the company and a very rigid
about it communicating it clearly to all the employees also
challenging them with high standards in order to improve their
abilities and performing standards.

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Therefore, it is concluded that to keep employees on track with the
fast changing environment it is very imperative to determine different
ways to enhance employees’ skills and therefore Jeff has adopted
commissioner leadership style in order to make the employees of
company most potential and resulting towards the success and growth
of Amazon making and maintaining it as the leader in online retail.

Leadership Qualities of Jeff Bezos
There are several leadership qualities that are possessed by Jeff
Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one among the billionaire
entrepreneur. Some of the qualities are mentioned below:
 Think long term
 Stubborn and flexible

CONCLUSION
As per the above presentation, it can be concluded that leadership
plays very crucial role in growth and success of an organisation. Jeff
Bezos use transformational leadership style which emphasizes on
identifying the required changes and develop a long term vision to
guide employees for executing the change successfully and develop
a new and innovative solution of an issue.

REFERENCES
 Solanki, K., 2019. ‘To what extent does Amazon. com, Inc success
be accredited to its organizational culture and ND Jeff Bezos's
leadership style?. Archives of Business Research, 7(11), pp.21-40.
 Hamad, H., 2015. Transformational leadership theory: Why military
leaders are more charismatic and transformational?. International
Journal on Leadership, 3.

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Renko, M., and et. al., 2015. Understanding and measuring
entrepreneurial leadership style. Journal of Small Business
Management, 53(1), pp.54-74.
Holten, A.L. and Brenner, S.O., 2015. Leadership style and the
process of organizational change. Leadership & Organization
Development Journal.

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Mishra, A.S., 2016. The Role of Corporate Leadership in Business
Growth. Effective Executive, 19(2), p.5.
Ward, J., 2016. Keeping the family business healthy: How to plan
for continuing growth, profitability, and family leadership. Springer.

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O’Keeffe, A., Ozuem, W. and Lancaster, G., 2016. Leadership
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Taylor, C.M., Cornelius, C.J. and Colvin, K., 2014. Visionary
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