Jeff Bezzos Leadership Skills

Jeff Bezos is a   great entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the Amazon.com business. He has invested in his e-commerce entrepreneurial skills to build one of the most famous and great brand companies through online selling.  There are a lot of good leadership skills that other entrepreneurs can learn from his success.  One important quality of Jeff is his ability to inspire great vision and influencing his team to make them believe and rally is one vision. Amazon is a great company today, but it never started that way, and there were several criticisms of Bezos’s decisions, but his boldness in staying focused on the vision is one important quality that has made his company great.  Vision is long-term and so is innovation and hence Jeff Bezos is one of the great visionary leaders that are celebrated in the e-business world (Stone, 2013).

Risk-taking and boldness in his decisions. Jeff Bezos does not believe in social coercion but being bold in making decisions and is a characteristic that has worked well for the company.  This has created a culture of innovation in the company through creating an environment that nature’s liberal thinking as opposed to social conformity.  He believes that without freedom top disagree there is no room for innovation in the company.  He encourages free-thinking creativity and criticisms to create an environment of change and innovation. Customer-centric approach.  His eyes and minds are always focused on the customer’s reaction to the business leaders. This makes the company identify the customer needs and satisfy them appropriately to enhance their experience. Jeff is also a transformational leader.  He influences others through effective communication breaking away from norms and leading in innovation make great managers (Collinson,& Tourish, 2015).

References

Stone, B. (2013). The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon. Random House.

Collinson, D., & Tourish, D. (2015). Teaching leadership critically: New directions for leadership pedagogy. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14(4), 576-594.

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