Jeff Bezos- CEO of Amazon & a Great Leader
The primary purpose of this paper is to focus on the leadership quality of Jeff Bezos; who is the creator and CEO of Amazon E-commerce business. It will primarily focus on the leader, his work in the organization, and also the way he manages to be a successful leader.Paperwill depicts the biography of Bezos, his early life as well as career life. The paper will reflects his positive attributes towards his work. His excellent leadership quality, skills, and style will also be the main content of this paper. Further discussion will be provided on the ethical leadership quality which made Bezos a great leader of the modern era.
Leader and his work in the organization
Jeff Bezos, an American tycoon and an e-commerce pioneer, is the creator and CEO of Amazon as well as the owner of ‘The Washington Post.' He is one of the richest people in the world due to his successful business adventure. Bezos set up the organization prepared with three Sun micro stations and then advanced a test site. Initially, the company continued with online books sale along with the trade of CDs as well as videos and later clothes, electronics, toys (Burch et al., 2015). In 2006 the company launched an Amazon Unbox on TiVo. In 2007 the company released a digital book reader. Later in 2011 Bezos introduced a tablet in the market at a certain price.
Biography of the leader
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He got interested in computers at an early stage and also about how things work. Bezos turned his parent's garage into a laboratory. He pursued his education at River Oaks Elementary School that is in Houston from class 4 to 6. His grandmother plays a tremendous role model in his life. He completed his high school from Miami Palmetto Senior High School. Later he secured a place at Princeton University, and he graduated with two degreesof Bachelor of Science in computer science as well as electrical engineering from the same university. After completing his graduation, Bezos worked in various private sectors. Bezos started working at the firm D.E. Shaw where he met Mackenzie.Jeff married Mackenzie Bezos in 1993 who was also a Princeton graduate.Jeff showed tremendous ability and in 1990 turn out to be the youngest vice president in the company's history. Later Bezos decided to quit the job and started a new venture in the world of business. He opened an online bookstore through which he stepped into the internet market. He decided to give a name to his company, i.e., Amazon. According to him amazon one of the planets longest river and largest bookstore.
Positive attributes of the leader
Bezos is an innovator as well as he possesses excellent skills in managing the workplace environment. He is a real person and has the habit of recognizing the adverse effect before taking any decision. Bezos is also an experimentalist, wants to experiment with new things(Ng et al., 2015). He has a bold personality who likes to take the risk, knowing the chances of failure, but his determination did not let him back down from taking a risk.
Leadership behavior
Jeff Bezos has a unique leadership quality which makes him different from others. He shows himself to be a democratic leader, but at times he is highly authoritative(Bakar et al., 2015). Jeff is a strict leader because of his strictness, which makes people do what Jeff wants them to do. He usually focuses on supervision, organization, and performance. Jeff believes in giving rewards to the employees who perform at their level best. He treats his employees as a member of a large extended family. In return, Bezos expects trust as well as obedience. He has high expectations for his employees to achieve the given target (Tabass et al., 2015).
Ethical leadership behavior in the organization
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon always believes that an association depends on the standard set by ethical leaders. To be a great leader you have to consider personal as well as organization values. He has a strong vision towards his workand employees; he is highly demanding(Leback, et al., 2015). Still, thousands dream to work with him. He has a good style of communicating with others in a clear and confident way so that the employees could get to know about the company. After the employees adjust to the company, they usually enjoy the environment. Bezos always want to bring benefit to his organizations. He is a master experimenter who sees the world as a laboratory(Marfo, 2017). He still searches for new things. Bezos says that make employees think like owners. It believed that Amazon is a robust company to work with and "Work hard" is a company motto.
Qualities of the leader
Jeff Bezos is the best example of one of the extreme and prosperous leaders in the world of the contemporary era. For of his leadership qualities, skills and styles Amazon has become the world's largest online shopping retailer. He had always given priority to his customers instead of competitors. He often takes stupid decisions which according to him is an element of successful leadership(Kyaga et al., 2015). He still divides the work in the group, which he named as pizza rule.
He always thought of long-term business. He made it possible because he knew the importance of internet; which plays a vital role. He monitors everything on his own. He encourages his employees and motivates them to get things done. He is a dedicated individual who inspires his team to reach structural goals(Combs, et al., 2015). He has that desire, strength of will, and the compulsory knowledge to accomplish long-term goals.
From the following paper, it evaluates that Jeff Bezos has marked himself as a successful business leader by creating rapid growth in his organization. Bezos will be remember for being the most visionary and innovative leader having a great leadership style. Because of his fantastic form of doing work which made him different from others. His positive attributes to experiment something new is remarkable. His biography depicts that he had a great interest and love for computers from his childhood. He proved himself to be the fifth wealthiest person in the world.