Friday, November 20, 2009

FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP (2)

Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, which was originally just a book store, Why is he named his company with Amazon?. Because "the Amazon River is the largest river in the world" said Jeff Bezos. What about the river Nile?. River Nile is the longest river in the world, when compared with the Amazon River water volume is only a tributary of the Amazon. Amazon River contains 20% of the world clean water, then had Jeff Bezos about his company would become the company that controls 20% of the world market. Amazon.com to open the E-Commernya site in July 1995, starting from the bookstore and then extended to the compact disk (CD) and then to the auction and now thousands of different products and different vendors. In the year 1996 to sell 15.7 million dollars and increased to 600 million dollars in 1998. Amazon.com reported on November 1 until December 23, 2002, consumers who do order in the world 56 million items to become the best online store in 2002 version of Yahoo magazine.
John F. Welch, Jr. (CEO) of General Electric said: "We use three operating principles for setting the atmosphere and attitudes at General Electric: no borders in all our behavior, speed in everything we do and stretch in every goal we set". behavior without borders unite the twelve major global businesses, each number one or number two in the market, into a vast laboratory of new ideas produkutamanya is, together with a general commitment to disseminate throughout the company. Speed is something not usually found in the company's registration General Electric, but at General Electric in the form of speed product development, design re-cycle (from order to delivery), set back the ability to reduce plant and equipment investment. Stretching means using dreams to set goals that exceed the targets set.
Yet many leaders do not have a spiritual element in life meraka vision, it is no wonder many leaders are seemingly happy, prosperous and abundant worldly success, but they live a meaningless void. The New York Times reported that real income has increased more than 16% for thirty years in America, but Americans who describe themselves as "very happy" actually in the same period has fallen from 36% to 29%. The Dalai Lama said "People can be much happier if only they'd share the wealth, share more friends, more fragrant names, positive things are inherited, and also less regret when they died later. They can say to yourself, at least I have used my money to help others, "wrote Howard C. Cutler in the book The Art of Happiness at Work.
Great leader who is not wallowing in wealth, even sleeping on a mat that marks on her body, friends with poverty and those who are weak, but his life is full of meaning Muhammad, who is a visionary leader to grace the whole of nature.

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