My Choice Of Industry Leader

Amazon is an electronic commerce company. Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos who is still acting CEO of Amazon. Its headquarters is based in the Seattle, Washington. Amazon has expanded its reach from the United States to all over the world. Amazon has separate retail sites, and distribution centers in the United Kingdom,France, Italy, Spain, China, and Brazil. Amazon sells everything from books, houseware, electronics, and clothing. In the recent years Amazon has expanded into the world of live streaming music, television shows and movies. Amazon creates its own consumer products like Amazon Kindle, or Amazon FireTV and its new product Echo.

Gordon Ramsay Holdings also has several business principal such as “Standards are the staple”, “Discipline yourself so the customers do not have to”, “Do not let business come to statistics”. At first, I was amazed that his restaurants were so successful not to mention the large profits he made. Normally, Chef is not good at running a business. Astonishing new came that for the first time, he has admitted that his hospitality empire almost came close to collapse recently. After an ambitious overseas expansion plan, his business went into total chaos, auditors from KPMG found that Ramsay company was losing millions of money. Opening ten restaurants in ten months, Ramsay admitted that his ego brings him down and it is way too fast to expand a company like

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay had opportunities to work with many great chefs around the world. Now he owns multiple great restaurants around the world and even hosted tv programs such as “ MasterChef”’ and “Hell’s Kitchen”. Gordon Ramsay was born in Glasgow Scotland, raised in Stratford England. His family moved to England when Ramsay was only 5 years old. Growing up Ramsay fell in love with soccer, and was determined to make it has his professional career. By the time he was 15 years old Ramsay was really good at playing soccer that he joined the Glasgow Rangers ( a pro club).

Bobby Seale was born in Texas, on October 22, 1936. He similar to Newton moved to Berkley and lived in crowded, dirty housing projects. Throughout his childhood he was constantly surrounded by poverty, partly due to his father not receiving a proper education. He joined the U.S. Air Force but then was discharged after he began to curse at his superior, for disrespecting him. He then enrolled to Meritt College and joined the Afro-American Association, where he met Newton.

Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana which is famously known as the birth place of jazz. Armstrong was born into a very poor family in a rough area in New Orleans. His father was a factory worker who abandoned the family soon after Armstrong was born. Consequently, he was raised by his

Charles A. Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised on a farm by a congressman and a farmer in Minnesota. Before flying across the Atlantic Lindbergh studied mechanical engineering at the university of Wisconsin. After attending Wisconsin Lindbergh went to Nebraska. In 1923 Lindbergh made his first solo flight in Lincoln, Nebraska. After making his first flight, he became a daredevil. After becoming a daredevil in 1924 Lindbergh was

The leader that I chose to research is Samuel Truett Cathy, the founder and chairman emeritus of Chic-Fil-A, Inc. Cathy has been featured in magazines like Forbes and Business Insider for his

These men were Captains of Industry. These men were Captains of Industry because all three of them donated money to charity. Rockefeller and Eastman thought it was a good thing for everyone to have good medical care. Carnegie donated money to get people to have a good education. All of these men donated money for different reasons. Carnegie donated over $350 million to build over 2,500 libraries. Eastman donated millions of dollars multiple time for children's dental care. And Rockefeller donated $50 million to help with Medical research, Health checks, Preventive care, and to Develop medicines for people that were sick. All of these Captains of industries helped the world in different ways.

I am writing in order to state why I deserve the FBLA Future Business Leader award. I believe that I am a leader in my community in which can be shown through my volunteer and leadership experience in the past as well as the present.

The old saying you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet holds true for the captains of industry or the so-called robber barons. Although the captains of industry drove some people and businesses into the ground; ultimately the captains of industry made the United States and the rest of the world a better place. Granted, many of the captains of industry used questionable business practiced that drove their profits to unprecedented levels. In addition, these captains of industry had many government officials under their thumbs, which only increased their income further. However, these same men founded and donated to colleges and universities, one of these millionaires donated to black colleges, and others created libraries (Zinn 53). In

The restaurant industry has been booming since the 90’s to now. With over 600,000 restaurants in the United States alone, and about 14.4 million employees

Bob Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Robert Louis Fosse.

Steve Ells, Founder and Co-CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurant, states that, “Our focus on our unique people and food culture has created an impressive demand for a restaurant experience that is redefining fast food for the better.” This statement from Ells displays the foundation of Chipotle Restaurant’s success with their fast casual brand. This industry has grown 550% since 1999 due to customers seeking out fast yet healthier alternatives for their lunch and dinner (Ferdman, 2015).

Leadership is “ critical in codifying and maintaining an organizations’ purpose, values, and vision. “ ( PM World Today Journal ). Having good leadership methods in place at an organization is vital in bringing success to a company. Steve Jobs is highly stimulated and has a strong idea of what he wants for Apple to achieve in upcoming periods. He is a transformational leader, and this, “ represents the most popular current view of leadership. This leader is characterised by a capacity to create a highly motivating and absorbing vision of the future, and has the capability to energise others to pursue the vision. “ ( Claremont McKenna College Journal ). Jobs has put in a huge effort to create a strong framework of control and direction, for example, “ Since returning to Apple, Steve has put as much energy into creating a strong management structure as he has into the products. “ ( www.ft.com ). This is highly effective leadership, trying to improve the design of the organisation in order to achieve more efficiency.

     Running a restaurant can be one of the most stressful jobs as well as the most fun and rewarding jobs. If the manager is a good leader with excellent leadership skills and has great followers the restaurant will be rewarded. If not the restaurant will plummet in sales and no one will be pleased. While developing a business. staff is important to running a successful restaurant, it is also essential that management focus on its public relations as well as its sales and marketing strategies.