success is through developing the skills and knowledge of its workforce. The best practice companies we observed included Southwest Airlines‚ Jetblue‚ British Airways‚ Singapore Airlines‚ and Virgin Atlantic Airways; all of which have made it on the Fortune 500 list of “Most admired Companies”. We came to the conclusion that these five airlines can be seen as best practice companies in the field of training‚ due to their dedication in providing high quality training‚ their innovative training tactics‚ and
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Self-confidence-----------------------------------7 2.2 Different traits between Stelios Haji-Ioannou and Richard Branson 2.2.1 Creativity------------------------------------------8 2.3 The limitation of trait theory--------------------------------8 3.0 Conclusion-----------------------------------------------------9 4.0 Reference-----------------------------------------------------10 1.0 Introduction Stelios Haji-Ioannou was born in 1967 in Athens. In 1984‚ he was educated
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RECENT PAST INTRODUCTION Virgin Group limited is a venture capital conglomerate founded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson with interest in transportation‚ travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ media‚ music and fitness. It employs about 50‚000 people in more than 30 countries‚ comprising of 300 companies and brand‚ with 11.5 billion pounds in revenue as at 2009‚ (Virgin website).
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business entrepreneur. The man is best recognized for his Virgin Group. Branson has more than four hundred companies; at age sixteen he started his first business adventure. It was a magazine called “Student." Since that time Richard Branson has created one of the most recognizable trademarks in the world. The internationally acknowledged trademark "Virgin" is spread across many countries from credit cards‚ to airlines and music industry "megastores".
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Leadership in Virgin Group Company History: Virgin Group is a diversified grouping of more than 200 privately held companies. The largest of these are Virgin Atlantic Airways‚ the number two airline in the United Kingdom; Virgin Holidays‚ a vacation tour operator; Virgin Rail‚ the second largest U.K. train operator; the Virgin Retail Group‚ which operates numerous Virgin Megastores‚ a retail concept featuring videos‚ music CDs‚ and computer games; and Virgin Direct‚ which offers financial services
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technology‚ to consider the entrepreneurs role as ‘a force of good to society’ and indirectly provides us experiences to develop team-working‚ research‚ communication and presentation skills. As for this assessment‚ we introduce the owner of the Virgin Group; Sir Richard Branson‚ as an example of the successful international entrepreneur. The issues that we will show and discuss are an introduction and his back-ground profile‚ the history of his prior and current business‚ his leadership and management
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used by Sir Richard Branson 7 6. Leadership styles used by Knight Bill Gates 10 7. Comparison of the leadership styles of Sir Richard Branson and 12 Knight Bill Gates 12 8. Which of the two characters seemed to be more effective? 14 9. Conclusion 15 10. Appendix 16 11. References 17 1. Executive summary This report contains the characteristics and comparison between the leadership qualities of Bill Gates and Richard Branson. Here it is discussed how Bill Gates carryout to be a successful
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Intoduction It is said that management principles can be traced back as far as 5000 years‚ which has provided considerable amount of time to refine and develop these principles into efficient and successful ideologies. Throughout history‚ management practise has evolved thanks to a number of pioneers who have veered away from the norm to revolutionise views on what it means to be a good and efficacious manager. Both Robert Owen and Richard Branson can be seen as frontrunners of their time‚ performing
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retail shop into one of the top six record companies in the world. Richard Branson had the courage to take necessary risks‚ and learn from trial and error at the beginning of his career which contributed to his incredible success with his many Virgin Group companies. He not only wanted to be successful‚ but he took time thinking about how he could also be a positive influence to the world around him. Branson made certain he passed on his knowledge and skills to his employees. Not only did he want
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References: Kotler and Armstrong. (2000). Part 1-Understanding Marketing and the Marketing Process. In: MARKETING: AN INTRODUCTION‚ 5/E. USA: Prentice Hall. 4-6. Virgin Media UK. (2012). Introducing Virgin Media SmartCall. Available: http://customer.virginmedia.com/smartcall/. Last accessed 18th Nov 2012. ONS. (2011). Internet Access - Households and Individuals‚ 2011.Available: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_227158.pdf. Last
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