10 BUSINESS LEADERS

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BUSINESS LEADERS - INDIA

MUKESH DHIRUBHAI AMBANI

BORN – 19th April,1957. PLACE – Yemen.CHAIRMAN & MD – Reliance Industries LimitedNETWORTH – 22.8 Billion USD (2016)KEY WORK

1. ABOLISHED FEUDALISM• Delegate Authority along with Responsibility to a network of people

and trained them.2. SELF MOTIVATED• Death of his father and his cousin Rasikbhai Meswani in quick

succesion.3. AIM HIGH• Goal was to beat Taiwan and Korea in Polyster business.• Reliance built capacity of 75000 tonnes during license Quota - Raj4. EXPANSION• Ability to see growth for various business in different parts of the

world

LEADERSHIP STYLE

• Benevolent Authoritative ( Behavioral theory of Leadership)

• Supportive

SHIV NADAR

Born : 14th July 1945, Tamil NaduFounder – Hindustan Computers LimitedUS$11.9 billion (December 2015)MAJOR WORK• Started with Tele digital Calculator “Televista”• Entered IT sector in hardware when IBM left

India in 1984

• Started with development of personal computer solution and UNIX platform solution earning 100 crores revenue in 1987

• Entered software and consulting business.• Generous nature extended towards employees , rewarding top performers

with Mercedes Benz or paid holiday

LEADERSHIP STYLE – BENEVOLENT AUTHORIATIVE(MICHIGAN STUDIES

AZIM pREMJI

BORN : 24 july 1945,MumbaiChairman : WIPRO Ltd

MAJOR WORK• Diversified from fathers vegetable

and refined oil to toiletries, light bulb, hair care products.

• Forseen Opportunity into computer hardware and software sector when IBM was asked to leave India.

• Hired and trained best brains in software engineering to improve skills, which helped wipro to be present in 67 countries and capture Market capitalisation of $35 Billion in 2015.

LEADERSHIP STYLETRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP

US$16.5 billion (February 2016)

Dr. PRATAP REDDY

BORN : 1933FOUNDER : Apollo Hospital GroupNetworth : $500 Million

MAJOR WORK

• An Incident abroad with his patient , made him to start world class Apollo hospital.• Aim was to make it available to people and affordable to larger portion of people.

They have 22 centres in major cities.• Initiative of MED VARSITY – a virtual medical university providing assistance to

experts anywhere and MED NET – a Hospital system management package.• Culture build in Apollo hospital is of Team work and treatment for all . Example

( Tsunami)• Mission to connect each hospitals with technology , so partnered with IBM and

ERICSON.

KiSHOR BIYANI

BORN : 9TH Aug, 1961. MumbaiFOUNDER & CEO – Future GroupPRESENT VALUE – $1.3 Billion

MAJOR WORK

• Started with a mill manufacturing Stone washed Fabric trousers and his first profit.

• Launched own brand of Fabric WBB , aim was to reach maximum people.• Started Garment Manufacturing company and sold it under Brand name

‘Pantaloons’• Started with a 10000 sqft property in Kolkata , a larger retail format store.• Entered Film industry with 2 films “ Na tum jano na hum” & “Chura Liya hai

tumne” and suffered huge loss.• All failures encountered while expansion phase could not stop him from

achieving the succes which he achieved.

BUSINESS LEADERS - INTERNATIONAL

CARLOS SLIM

BORN : 28TH Jan 1940,MexicoCEO : TELMEX

MAJOR WORK• Self made Business man , started from scratch. • Owned a Brokerage firm that invested in Individual Business• Diversified into Construction, mining and Real estate• Falling oil prices caused economy to slow down , but saw it as

opportunity and acquired new business in 1982.• Mexican government “ TELMEX “ Telephone company was major

acquisition which had a customer base of 80% mexican population in 1990.

• Implimented strategy of selling handsets with month prepaid phone cards.

• It resulted prepaid customer base segment increase by 66% every year for last 15 years AUTOCRATIC

JACK MA

BORN : 10th Sept, 1964, ChinaFOUNDER : Alibaba

MAJOR WORK

• Saw Growth potential in E business and started visiting US to learn basics and steps to connect to a website .

• Purpose of the company he started was to create websites to clients.• Intial investment of $20,000 earning return of $80000.• Further estimated growth in E-business and further founded Taobao, Lynx and

Alibaba.

Leadership style – VISIONARYTRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

HENRY FORD

BORN : 30th July 1863,AmericaFOUNDER : Ford Motors

MAJOR WORK

• Revolutionalised Automobile industry by manufacturing car affordable to middle class people.

• Henry Ford company launched a Model T, a car having steering on left side and very easy to drive and demand increased

• Under Ford’s leadership, the company introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using specialized techniques.

• During second world war Ford company was one of the major US Military contractors to supply airplanes, engines, jeeps and trucks

TRANSFORMATIONAL + SUPPORTIVE

Jeff bezos

BORN : 12th Jan 1964,AmericaFOUNDER : Amazon – online Bookstore.

• Jeff played a seminal role in the development and growth of e-commerce. He founded Amazon.com, an online book store, in 1995.

• With time, Amazon started to diversify its portfolio. In 1998, it started offering CDs and videos and, in 2002, it also included clothes to its portfolio.

• The company has ushered revolution in online shopping by introducing innovative features, such as one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification.

• With time, Amazon started to diversify its portfolio. In 1998, it started offering CDs and videos and, in 2002, it also included clothes to its portfolio.

MAJOR WORK

MasayoshI SON

BORN : 11th Aug,1957 JAPANFounder of SOFTBANK

MAJOR WORK

• started a software distribution company called Nihon SoftBank in 1981—the name was later shortened to SoftBank.

• Striked deal with clients and capturing nations 50% retail market for software by 1984.

• Loss of 70 billion in dot com bubble could not stop him from building his current success.

• Invested 20 Million in Alibaba , ecommerce company• Attempted to enter booming mobile market. Bought vodafone Japan for $15

billion in 2006. softbank mobile is currently most profitable telecom firm.• he donated around 10 billion yen ($120 million) to relief organizations and also

pledged all his future salary to help support the victims of Tsunami and nuclear disaster