Leadership, Culture, and Global Business: A Video Summary Assignment

This document provides summaries of ten different videos covering a range of topics related to leadership, company culture, and global business strategies. The videos explore insights into Steve Jobs' leadership style, the influence of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's board, and the intense work culture in Japan. Further summaries delve into Netflix's culture of freedom and responsibility, David Zaslav's views on values and leadership, and Chobani's CEO giving employees ownership stakes. Collaboration and leadership are examined through Diana Styles' perspective at Adidas, while other videos analyze Netflix's decision-making processes, the transformation of China's Uber by Jean Loup, and Amazon's potential for success in India. These summaries offer a condensed overview of key concepts and strategies discussed in each video.

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VIDEO 1: Nest CEO: What It Was Like Working with Steve Jobs................................................1
VIDEO 2: Facebook Board Members Are Puppets for Zuckerberg, NorthStar's Goodridge Says. 1
VIDEO 3: Why does Japan work so hard?......................................................................................1
VIDEO 4: Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility................................................................2
VIDEO 5: Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Values, Leadership & Business Negotiations..........2
VIDEO 6: Chobani CEO Giving Employees an Ownership Stake in Yogurt Empire....................3
VIDEO 7: Collaboration and Leadership - Diana Styles, adidas.....................................................3
VIDEO 8: Netflix Culture Explained: Does All Decision-Making Sit Within the U.S.?................3
VIDEO 9: How This Woman Transformed China's Uber...............................................................4
VIDEO 10: Can Amazon Succeed in India?....................................................................................4

VIDEO 1: Nest CEO: What It Was Like Working with Steve Jobs
The video is about working with Steve Jobs and his nature towards the team working and
products. After seeing the video, I came to know that Steve Jobs is very professional about the
working as it was quite tough for his friends and partners to work with him because during
working he carry mentor kind of relationship. From the video, I came to know that there are
several times when tension and stress overpower us that leads to change things and impact the
relationship of Steve, Johnny and Tony. Also, there is the discussion about the team effort which
sometimes become mythology that lead people to believe that when it comes to design there is
no right and wrong because there are opinions of different people that led the charge to certain
decisions. Apart from that, Steve not only involve team members in decision making to give their
opinion he also consider customers as it is time-oriented thing which is some sort of myth that
pits Johnny and Tony Fadell against each other.
VIDEO 2: Facebook Board Members Are Puppets for Zuckerberg,
NorthStar's Goodridge Says
The video carry details about the investors of Facebook who seek to confront the Zuckerberg
which is being criticised by the Board Members. After seeing the video, I came to know that the
Board members of Facebook are puppets of Zukerberg and when company went public around
50,000 shares of Facebook took over which an opportunity for the shareholders to weigh-in and
citizens as well to re-think about their overall privacy as what kind of internet access they really
want and it is concerned with ethics as well. In regard of data gathering and data dissemination, I
felt that for the last few years’ companies like Facebook and Google having the majority of
shares and due to this other start facing issues in the realm of businesses like corporate
governance. Also, the ethical issues which are legitimate and could be raised as they are still
making money for the investors. Cambridge analytical scandal is the another major election
coming up in 2020 where company received 83% vote.
VIDEO 3: Why does Japan work so hard?
From the video, I came to know that Japan has long working hours due to which employees die
from it. “Karoshi” is the term which is used in Japan when the employees died by overwork as
they work more than 80 hours per month and the extra hours are unpaid. The corporate culture of
Japan is driven by “Salaryman” which define the loyalty of employees towards the company. in
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2017, a survey found that despite having 20 days off per year, Japanese workers left 10 which are
unused. The work ethics of Japan put huge contribution towards the economic miracle which the
economic growth beginning in 1950s. An employee of advertising firm named Denstu jumped to
her death in 2015 due to which company was fined for violating the labour standards. After that
case, firms over there made suitable changes as they close office by 10PM and also try to reduce
working hours. Japan also less inclined to accept immigrants as they focus over the robotics to
fill the gap.
VIDEO 4: Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility
The video is made as per the survey of the employees of Netflix in which they describe that what
freedom and responsibility means to them. One of the employees said that he feels worthy and
important while working in Netflix as he is being trusted to make the right decisions. Employees
over their have self-explained decisions to exercise good which is because of diligence and good
judgement. Freedom and responsibility is gateway to the creativity as it can easily describe what
an individual can do or what cannot. Few people think that they speak with proper intelligence
and also give the suitable responsibilities. I came to know that in Netflix, entertainment is like
friendship which is the fundamental human need as it leads to change that how people feel and
gives the uncommon ground. During week 12, I studied about several cultures which is required
by businesses to manage their culture across the boundaries. In regard of this, there are several
strategies used to manage the cultural dimensions from which Stereotyping in cross cultural
dealings is unwarranted. Hence, the culture of Netflix, leads to encourage independent decision
making by the employees, share proper information and keep people highly effective.
VIDEO 5: Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Values, Leadership & Business
Negotiations
From this video, I came to know that values, leadership and business negotiations are important
in terms of having proper survival in industry. The Jewish values in which people grew up that
has the sense of family from which people are lucky to think that all the religions have basic
values as it is not just the Jewish religion. Here, I look at the discovery, as the company is all
about creating the effective environment where each and every individual can feel comfortable.
Here, Robert F Kennedy had the legacy of their whole family which is related with work hard,
respect others and great values. They believe on Karma as that would be good in terms of
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knowing the extreme religion and other religion raise challenge but the values of Jewish religion
carry great values. Hence, it is important to value and develop the self-esteem to find the overall
success that idea of hard work and education which is of Jewish culture that focuses on education
and hard work.
VIDEO 6: Chobani CEO Giving Employees an Ownership Stake in Yogurt
Empire
The video is related with the CEO of Chobani who give employees stake or ownership in the
company and also make them partner within the company. Americans loved Chobani Yogurt that
rose company form the ground level to become the multi-billion-dollar sensation. The CEO of
company give employees into the owners and a few future millionaires as the gift. I came to
know from this video that Harry Smith leads to make difference in modern workplace by
hugging their boss which is not the first instinct to the employees. Further, the founder of
company Hamdi Ulukaya made an announcement that their employees were used to walk
together and also now become partners in the financial terms by giving them 10% stake in
company. I think that every employee is so excited that two plants and more than 2000 employee
move Silicon vally and then upstate to New York.
VIDEO 7: Collaboration and Leadership - Diana Styles, adidas
From that video, I came to know that collaboration and leadership is the trendy working of Diana
as according to her when somebody does not follow by the commitment that leads to collapse the
leadership style. According to this video, I came to know that she would call it by using sports
analogy as she is the coach of other coaches and also tends to do more components of leadership
of people versus managing the people. She also like to give people lot of space to bring forward
what they want to achieve in their roles versus by telling them how to do it. She also leads others
collaboration as the key to hold them accountable for the expectations. She also went through by
three C’s of leadership that include confidence, collaboration and creativity by reading through
the effective definitions and internalise them.
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VIDEO 8: Netflix Culture Explained: Does All Decision-Making Sit Within
the U.S.?
From that video, I came to know about the culture of Netflix which is properly explained as all
the decision making sit within the US. Firstly, each and every decision was held in US as most of
the series were made in US that give proper accountability to the people of US to have access to
each information. The culture of Netflix is US centric, as it is the one company to kind of act into
the territory but when it comes to the decision then the power in the hands of employees.
According to the employees of Netflix, they think that they all are aligned as they give proper
visibility to US they really helped them make suitable decisions. But after sometime, Netflix and
their founder came to know that the future of company is also outside the US but these people do
not like the mix of nationalities.
VIDEO 9: How This Woman Transformed China's Uber
In this video, I came to know that Jean Loup is one of the most powerful women in tech as she is
the president of didi chu Jing that operates as one of the biggest ride hailing service. As per this
video, company is the world’s second largest and most valuable start up with the lofty 56-
million-dollar valuation. Also, the shares are also said to be the privately trading 40% lower than
their peak investors who are starting to doubt if the car halen companies can even turn a profit.
Didi trying to make her name for majored in computer science at the Harvard and also spent 12
years in managing the Asia investments at Goldman Sachs in July 2014. In August 2016 DD
bought Uber china after receiving a billion dollars of funding from the apple which a deal largely
brokered by jean loup Uber also acquired to the small stake. In 2018, investors are doubting that
it can ever turn a profit it faced stringent over the crackdowns and competition from the regional
operations after muscling Uber.
VIDEO 10: Can Amazon Succeed in India?
As per the video, I came to know that the hype over the location of Amazon HQ has died down
as the e-commerce giant opened its biggest office building. The new campus in Hyderabad, India
cover the 9.5 acres with 1.8 million sq. ft. of office space that make the largest amazon building.
Now, company is interested in the market of India due to their total consumption as it represents
the enormous untapped potential. Presently, e-commerce depicts just 3% of total consumption in
India. However, amazon faces steep competition from Walmart that completed its 16-billion-
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dollar acquisition of domestic e-commerce company Flipkart in 2018. But now, amazon and
Walmart both are looked into the tight competition for the market share. I have also learnt in
week 11 during my course about the entry modes at the global level which is also opted by the
Amazon to take entry in the foreign market. During this week, I have developed suitable
knowledge and understanding about the expansion at global level and for this, I went through
several models like CAGE framework and entry mode options. Yet despite their growing
influence, roughly 90 percent of India's retail market is still controlled by small mom and pop
stores. Direct to consumer sales were already banned for foreign-owned retailers, leading
Amazon and Walmart to set up a network of affiliate companies that allowed them to continue
selling their own products.
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