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The Leadership Style of Sir. Richard Branson

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards a common goal. Basically there is several styles of leaderships each individual leader posses. Just like when we are thinking about the world greatest leaders. They must first be effective in their organizational context, and must know their business and the unique aspects of the organization well. They must be able to think strategically, budget, implement, and do a variety of these sorts of things well. To simplify, leaders who are remarkable people are those who engender trust, create great teams, are innovative, have a vision, and are great communicators.

Leadership: -

a. Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things (Peter F. Drucker)

b. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he

wants to do it. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Sir Richard Branson : -

- Born July 18, 1950 , England

- Married, 2 Children

- A Frugal Billionaire

- Transformation Leader

- English industrialist (business magnate)

- The quintessential entrepreneur

- Virgin Group - 360 Companies

- Companies that cos est. $25 Billion

- Est. 55, 000 employees

Facts: -

- He was knighted in 1999 for his " services to entrepreneurship"

- Appears at No. 85 on the 2002 list of "100 Greatest Britons"

- Ranked in 2007's Time Magazine "Top 100 Most influential people in the world"

- Dec 7, 2007: United Nations Secretary presented Branson with the United Citizen

of the World Award for his support for environmental and humanitarian causes

- The 236th richest person according to Forbes' 2008 list of billionaires, with an

estimated net worth of approximately $4.4 billion USD.

How he began: -

- 16 years old - dropped out of school, move to london and launch Student Magazine which

did relatively more success.

- At 19 years old, found the Virgin Mail order record company. Success in selling

mail order...