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The success of every great company or popular brand is often the vision of a great leader. Here in this book, we profile 100 Great Business Leaders, giving an account of their business career, demonstrating the innovations, opportunities and business principles that have been introduced in their companies. Also included is a practical section to demonstrate how a reader might apply these ideas in their own lives. The 100 chosen business leaders are from companies located all over the world and include a mixture of business founders (for example Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Kiichira Toyoda, Liu Chuanzhi of Lenova) and famous business executives (Jack Welch of GE, Lee Iacocca of Chrysler, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico, Chua Sock Koong of Singapore Telecommunications).

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	05 juin 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814484688
Langue	English

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Copyright 2013 Jonathan Gifford
Published in 2013 by Marshall Cavendish Business An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International
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Marshall Cavendish is a trademark of Times Publishing Limited
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All reasonable efforts have been made to obtain necessary copyright permissions. Any omissions or errors are unintentional and will, if brought to the attention of the publisher, be corrected in future printings.
eISBN 978 981 4484 68 8
Cover design by Cover Kitchen Co Ltd Printed in Great Britain by CPI Mackays
To business men and women around the world
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Dhirubhai Ambani Reliance Industries
2 Bernard Arnault LMVH
3 Mary Kay Ash Mary Kay Cosmetics
4 Vinita Bali Britannia Industries
5 Jeff Bezos Amazon
6 Sara Blakely Spanx
7 William Boeing Boeing
8 Richard Branson Virgin Group
9 Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway
10 Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Steel
11 Dhanin Chearavanont Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group
12 Eva Chen Trend Micro
13 Chung Ju-yung Hyundai
14 Charles A. Coffin General Electric Company
15 Terence Conran Habitat
16 Michael Dell Dell
17 Walt Disney The Walt Disney Co.
18 Dong Mingzhu Gree Electric Appliances
19 James Dyson Dyson
20 Thomas Edison Edison General Electric Company
21 Henry Ford Ford Motor Company
22 Bill Gates Microsoft
23 Louis Gerstner IBM
24 Carlos Ghosn Renault-Nissan
25 King C. Gillette Gillette
26 Bill Gore W.L. Gore Associates
27 Katharine Graham The Washington Post Group
28 Philip Green Arcadia
29 Andrew Grove Intel
30 Romi Haan Haan Corporation
31 John Harvey-Jones ICI
32 Bill Hewlett David Packard Hewlett-Packard
33 Soichiro Honda Honda
34 Tony Hsieh LinkExchange; Zappos
35 Lee Iacocca Ford; Chrysler
36 Mohamed Mo Ibrahim MSI; Celtel
37 Steve Jobs Apple
38 Herb Kelleher Southwest Airlines
39 Vinod Khosla Sun Microsystems
40 Gerard Kleisterlee Philips
41 Phil Knight Nike
42 Koo In-hwoi LG Corporation
43 Koo Bon-Moo LG Corporation
44 Ray Kroc McDonald s
45 A.G. Lafley Procter Gamble
46 Est e Lauder Est e Lauder
47 Lee Byung-chull Samsung
48 Robin Li Baidu
49 Li Ka-shing Hutchison Whampoa
50 Liu Chuanzhi Lenovo Group
51 Liu Yonghao New Hope
52 Olivia Lum Hyflux
53 Ma Huateng Tencent
54 Jack Ma Alibaba
55 John Mackey Whole Foods Market
56 Anand Mahindra Mahindra Mahindra
57 Annie Turnbo Malone Poro
58 Michael Marks Marks Spencer
59 Konosuke Matsushita Panasonic
60 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Biocon
61 William McKnight The 3M Company
62 George W. Merck Merck Co
63 Lakshmi Mittal ArcelorMittal
64 Sunil Bharti Mittal Bharti Airtel
65 Akio Morita Sony
66 Alan Mulally Ford Motor Company
67 Anne Mulcahy Xerox
68 Rupert Murdoch News Corporation
69 N.R. Narayana Murthy Infosys
70 Ning Gaoning COFCO
71 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo
72 Archie Norman Asda
73 Jorma Ollila Nokia
74 Larry Page Google
75 Azim Premji Wipro
76 Gina Rinehart Hancock Prospecting
77 John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil
78 Anita Roddick The Body Shop
79 Howard Schultz Starbucks
80 Alfred P. Sloan General Motors
81 Darwin Smith Kimberley-Clark
82 Fred Smith FedEx
83 Martin Sorrell WPP Group
84 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata Tata Group
85 Ratan Tata Tata Group
86 Kiichiro Toyoda Toyota
87 Cornelius Vanderbilt Steamships and railways
88 Sam Walton Wal-Mart
89 Cher Wang HTC
90 Wang Shi China Vanke
91 Perween Warsi S A Foods
92 Thomas J. Watson IBM
93 Jack Welch General Electric
94 Meg Whitman eBay
95 Jerry Yang Yahoo!
96 Zhang Jindong Suning Group
97 Zhang Ruimin Haier
98 Zhang Yin Nine Dragons Paper
99 Zong Qinghou Wahaha
100 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook
Sources and Further Reading
About the Author
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I WOULD LIKE TO acknowledge my debt to all of the historians, authors and journalists whose work has made this book possible.
The facts about any leader s business career are reasonably easy to find, since business is carried out in the necessary glare of public scrutiny. What is harder to find, without good journalism and investigative writing, is each leader s real, personal experience: the challenges that they faced; the decisions that they made; the minor triumphs and many setbacks that lie behind any great business success. Also missing would be the leader s tone of voice. Thanks to journalists and other writers, for the great majority of leaders from the modern era, it is possible to find a quotation or comment that helps to bring the person to life.
A special acknowledgement is owed to Justin Lau, the editor of this book, for paring my original manuscript down to a manageable length with his usual flair and skill.
INTRODUCTION
T HE CAREER OF ANY great business leader reads like the plot of a novel. Great leaders, by definition, have a vision that is not shared by everyone. There are difficulties and adversities to overcome; they face many obstacles, including self-doubt, but persevere in the hope of achieving their goal.
The earliest leader featured in the book, Cornelius Vanderbilt, was born in 1794. He made a living ferrying people around the waters of New York Bay in a sailing boat. When he saw the first steamboats, Vanderbilt recognised a new opportunity. He went to work for a steamboat operator to learn his trade, sometimes having to hide in a secret compartment of his boat when it was raided by officials of the New York Legislature, who had granted a monopoly of ferry services to another operator. Vanderbilt saved enough money to start his own steamboat ferry service, and finally built an empire that included ocean-going steamships. As Americans flocked to join in California s Gold Rush in the middle of the nineteenth century, Vanderbilt offered a service to take people from the east coast of America to the western Pacific coast, steaming down the eastern seaboard and crossing the Isthmus of Panama via lakes and rivers, crossing the final stage by mule train (the Panama Canal had not yet been built). As the railways began to cross America, Vanderbilt saw a new opportunity, and acquired shares in major east coast rail services, acquiring, with great prescience, the line that served Manhattan itself. At his death, Vanderbilt was one of the richest men in America.
The most recent leader featured here was born in 1984. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, dropped out of university to create the new social networking site. Within a year, the new venture had attracted venture capital of nearly 14 million. A year later, Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for 1 billion. Zuckerberg turned it down. As the CEO of Yahoo at the time said, I d never met anyone who would walk away from a billion dollars. But he Zuckerberg said, It s not about the price. This is my baby, and I want to keep running it, I want to keep growing it.
Part of the fascination in reading about the careers of the great business leaders over the course of some two centuries is to note the similarities: the personal qualities needed to create a significant business from scratch; the skills that make a great business executive. What is also fascinating - and probably more important - is to see how business leadership is evolving and improving.
The characteristics that define successful leadership today are not the characteristics that would have defined previous generations of business executives, who were, in general, operating in the old command and control model of leadership adopted quite consciously by early twentieth-century business organisations. Modern leaders talk about issues like collaboration; the devolution of decision-making; creating flatter working structures where colleagues may have several leaders and may themselves be leaders in certain circumstances; the need to ensure that colleagues are genuinely excited by their work and by what their company contributes to its community. Successful modern leaders stress the need to create a working environment that encourages lateral thinking and innovation. In the modern business world, efficiency is a given - inefficient businesses will quickly fail in the face of global competition. Innovation, not imitation, is what drives the wheels of progress.
Many great leaders succeed because they grasp the significance of a technological advance that will create new business opportunities. The invention of the semiconductor led inexorably to the microcomputer revolution, but required its own cadre of great leaders to make it a reality. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, Michael Dell and Andy Grove are featured in this book as examples of these revolutionaries.
The internet - surely the most significant technological revolution of our time - triggered a new business revolution, and has demonstrated how rapidly business change i