Leader Analysis Paper
David Lima
Leadership Theory and Application
Western Kentucky University
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Leader Analysis: Jeff Bezos
The style of leadership in a person and its development in the social and commercial area is a mandatory field to be studied today and to take into account for our progress, since many ordinary people become very influential people on society, and one never knows how to influence or how our personality can help us to motivate ourselves and given the case why not dare to motivate a group of people and that is the reason why we focus today on a great leader such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
In this composition, Bezos’s personality type, strengths, behavioral type, and leadership …show more content…
From 1990 to 1994,
Bezos worked with another Wall Street company, D.E. Shaw and Co. In 1994, Jeff Bezos left his job and moved to Seattle, where he founded Cadabra.com and in 1995 he launched Cadabra.com as an online bookstore. It had more than 200,000 titles and these could also be ordered by e-mail. Sometime later he named it amazon, by the Amazon River and since at that time circulated alphabetized listings, Amazon would appear in the first places. And after that, amazon has not stopped growing economically and
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Five Exemplary Practices of Leaders, and how his personality is like a leader.
Kouzes and Posner
Model the Way
Mass media like to talk about Jeff Bezos and his attributes as a tycoon. However, it is a good exercise to know how this relevance in business disruption was forged. In my point of view he started his vision when he used to work on his grandparents farm and he knew the agronomy business. How to …show more content…
Bezos and Amazon gain the agreement and commitment necessary to elevate team vision. By understanding your employees’ likes and dislikes, they know what motivates and what doesn’t.
S
In the DISC assessment stands for stabilizing, or how you pace things in your environment.
Bezos would probably an S score that falls in the lower to middle range. Jeff invented what he calls the
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“regret minimization framework” to decide whether to stay at his safe job or to start his company. He considered what he would regret more on his death bed. He knew he would regret not taking a stab at the
Internet (which was changing everything) versus leaving his safe job Traits in this area include being consistent, stable, steady, outgoing, and active.
C
In the DISC assessment stands for cautious. Bezos would probably score in the lower range for cautious. He never thought was could probably happened if his ideas did not work out as he thought. He traveled for his journey believing in his self. In what he just think, and was known to have some radical decisions. Traits of the lower C score include being balanced, independent, and rebellious. He takes