Essays on Jeff Bezos

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

Company description.

Amid the most innovative companies on the globe, Amazon.com, Inc. stands out as a leader in online retail trade. It was started by Jeff Bezos in 1996 an online bookstore, but the advancements in the Internet commerce tools paved the way for expansion to other goods and services. Today, Amazon has online shops dedicated to such countries/regions as the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, China, France, Italy, Brazil, and Australia, amongst others (Forbes, 2016). The company provides solutions for four primary customer segments as content creators, enterprise, sellers and end consumers. Other products/services available for offers from this ...

04 September 20XX

How important is intelligence compared to social skills in most organizations? It turns out that there is a whole school of study devoted to precisely this question. Whether looking at a general interest publication devoted to “6 minute reads” like fastcompany.com (Duestchendorf) or the Financial Post (Williams) or a prestigous professional publication like the Harvard Business Review (Ovans) articles abound. A google search for “intelligence vs social skills in business” returned 12,000,000 hits. The issue of social skills in business even has its own jargon. It is referred to as “emotional intelligence.” The conclusion ...

Introduction

The list of Contemporary Business Leaders presents information about some of the greatest business leaders of the 21st Century. What they had in common is that they developed a vision and a mission and implemented it in order to establish their businesses and steer the businesses through different situations as they provided value to consumers. This paper will conduct an in-depth study into a major business leader of our time and review some of the elements and features unique to his leadership and governance styles. This individual will be reviewed is Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon one of the ...

According to the horizontal analysis of income statement, net income has been increased $837,000 in 2015. Amazon.com margins increased at a faster rate than expenses. The cost of revenue increased 14% in 2015 as against gross profit increasing 35%. Amazon.com did not incur any environmental expenses in 2013. The company also focused on reducing debt. As a result interest expense is 0. Vertical analysis of income statement shows that the company focused on increasing expenses along with increasing revenues. Additionally, Amazon.com also reduced debt and interest expenses in turn. The previous caused gross profit and net income to ...

According to me, a leader is one who inspires others through his actions. The actions of leaders are always inspired by self-awareness. Leaders have certain impeccable characters that distinguish them from ordinary individuals. In other words, leaders are principle-centered that makes them stick on to certain cherished values, regardless of the challenges they encounter from time to time (Covey, 1991). No wonder, leaders who allow their actions to speak rather than their words motivate others to do what they do, which in turn creates more and more future leaders. A good leader develops a good team of employees; together, ...

Introduction

The low cost carriers (LCCs) have been enjoying very fast growth in the past several years. Airlines like Ryan Air, Southwest, Lion Air and Asia have become dominant forces in their respective regions. Opportunities for growth and expansion abound especially in the light of changing consumer preferences and habits stemming from the global financial crisis. To take advantage of emerging opportunities, Air Asia needs to go public and raise funds for expansion. While its business model has so far been very successful, certain aspects of it operations and business model need to be modified for it to be able ...

Amazon is one of the leading organizations on a global level and under the visionary leadership of Jeff Bezos; the company has been leading the e-commerce sector with its innovative and technologically advanced service and products. Jeff Bezos passion for reading and commitment to innovation led to the development and launch of the first ever successful e-reader tablet the Kindle in 2007, amid an array of competition in the e-reader market mainly Sony Reader and Iliad by the Rex (Goodman et al, 2014). Kindle features was inclusive of an easy to use interface and the key value proposition of ...

Introduction

Leadership styles of executives define organizational culture and thus determine the health and profitability of business operations. Leadership is a process through which an individual guides, controls and influences the thinking pattern, feeling and behavior of fellow employees in an organization (Haiman, 1951). Organizations are positively influenced by leaders who have the ability to plan and act through their own unique styles towards achieving their long-term visions. Analyzing the styles of leaders of business organizations reveals why certain organizations keep on breaking sales records whereas others fail to create a significant impact in the consumer market. Broadly, today’s ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. Entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, the survey conducted by Jean Yusuf among entrepreneurs determined that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in the academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. It is claimed that entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, Yusuf emphasized that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make people’s ...

Inyang defines leadership as the process of influencing people so that they strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the realization of group goals. In consideration, Amazon’s, the Washington Post’s and Blue Origin’s success and favorable financial statistics do not constitute sufficient evidence to state that Jeff Bezos is in fact a great leader, as it is not his success but rather how he became successful that can shed light on his leadership skills. This paper will analyze Bezos’ leadership style throughout his professional career, personal characteristics, communication with employees, vision and impact on his companies, to comprehend ...

Question 1

Virgin Galactic is the first space line in the world that owns and runs privately built spaceships. The company plans to be the pioneer in commercializing space travel and offering ordinary people a unique opportunity of going into history as the first ever non-professional astronauts. Its main competitor is the Blue Origin, which has already attained a spectacular achievement in pioneering the first rocket booster to make a safe trip back to earth from space (The Economist, 2015). Virgin Galactic plans to use its massive resources and synergistic effects from the Virgin Group umbrella to beat its competitor in ...

Introduction

Amazon.com is an American e-commerce and computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington (Dixit and Sinha, 88). Notably, it is the largest Internet-based retailer in U.S and cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) provider in the world. It deals with a range of products, such as downloads and streaming of MP3, audiobook, software as well as video games among other things. Additionally, it sells furniture and toys as well as produce electronics such as Fire tablets, phones and TV among other consumer products. The founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos has seen the company he founded in 1994 grow in both sales and ...

Answer 1

Based on the videos and some more research on Amazon, if I have to look at the future ten years from now, I see that on the strategy and operations side Amazon has presence in ecommerce and physical store retail, has minimal human work force in the warehouses, provides the services in tier 2 and tier 3 cities in almost all the growing countries, and caters to a larger customer base with a broad spectrum of product line. Based on the article published in Forbes by Steve Denning, “ingle-channel retail will disappear, whether it’s pure e-commerce or brick-and-mortar ...

Management

Question 1 The firm uses the mouse to the house method whereby it tries to sell every product to everyone in the entire globe. Given what we have seen on the current operations strategy, I see a future whereby amazon will be having planes besides the already available trucks to boost distribution. This is primarily because amazon is fast expanding, and the scale of operations is becoming big. It will therefore, need to be able to deliver commodities fast and efficiently all over the world. With the drone technology, amazon will be able to deliver some packages even within ...