Complete Task 3 Assignment: Company Leadership (Portfolio Assignment)

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Complete Task 3 Assignment: Company Leadership (Portfolio Assignment)

Company’s Leadership
(~1 page)
Describe the company’s leadership team and style(s). You will need to answer the following questions:
What can you find out about the leadership style of the chief executive officer? How would you characterize his/her leadership style?
Does the leadership style he/she has adopted match the situation confronting the organization?
Would you characterize the CEO as an effective leader? How would you explain his/her success or lack thereof?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

The leadership of Amazon.com Inc. is one that can be emulated. The company’s chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos is not only its leader but is also renowned the world over for his leadership style. Bezos is a visionary leader, having transformed Amazon from a mere online bookstore to the e-commerce giant that there is today. His own vision was to establish the world’s most customer-centric company where they would visit, find and discover anything and everything they could ever want to purchase online. Through his visionary leadership, the company has been able to achieve this goal.
Bezos excellently delegates some of his duties thus ensuring that company operations run smoothly even in his absence. As a result of delegating, the CEO has…