What The Best Ceos Know : 7 Exceptional Leaders And Their Lessons For Transforming Any Business

Dell's business strategy combines its direct customer model with a highly efficient manufacturing and supply chain management organization and an emphasis on standards-based technologies. This strategy enables Dell to provide customers with superior value; high-quality, relevant technology; customized systems; superior service and support; and products and services that are easy to buy and use.

In fact, several population-based studies have suggested that there must be some abilities in the person that can make him the superlative businesspersons, such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Larry Page, and so on. The identified abilities are- they are risk takers, saints in some sense, creative, strong-minded, productive, artistic, and so on. They can also predict the future needs of the market as well. For this, they also deploy diverse management practices to make sure the implementation of the big picture. They also exhibit adaptability, sound decisions making process, and implement appropriate business structure and so

The chapters two and five discuss two successful figures in business that I can learn from with their different leadership styles. Michael Dell and Andy Grove led their companies to billionaire status with great business strategies and some risks during their tenure. Michael Dell focus on the customer and Andy Grove focus on the employees always being on their toes so that they will always work hard. Their companies both struggle at times, but they put strategies in place to continue their successful. I will provide a brief description of Michael Dell and Andy Grove contributions, their resistance they encountered, and how they are different along with the factor of their success.

This paper will compare and contrast the contributions of Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computer, and Andy Grove, cofounder and former CEO of Intel. The paper presents each person; talks about their main contributions for their companies, problems they experienced, and their similarities and differences; and concludes by discussing the factors that may have impacted their success. The data for this paper is taken from the book, What the Best CEOs Know; 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business (Krames, 2003).

Dell Computer Corporation was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. From the early 1990s until the mid-2000s, Dell was ranked as a PC market leader relying on their distinctive marketing pattern “Direct Model” which undertook direct communication with customers and provided customized products. Recently, the PC industry is facing inconceivable worldwide competition, and Dell is gradually losing their competitive advantages by using its direct model in critical business segments. The company is facing shrinkage of growth, increasing competition, declining quality of customer service, and limitation of expansion. These issues have an enormous impact on Dell’s position as a technological giant in the PC industry.

Andy Grove and Michael Dell made major contribution to the field of technology. Not speaking to product contributions, but the effective management tools, leadership, poise and strategic thinking are perhaps their most impressive contributions to the field.

In this ever growing, rapid developing world as we can see today, there are many different successful leaders. As we know it, leaders are humans just like everyone else. How did they manage to stand out from the crowd? What did they do to achieve great success for an organization? As of all the successful leaders in the world, Steve Jobs is one of the successful leaders that managed to achieve great success for an organization. Therefore, Steve Jobs is the leader that I personally admire and would like to emulate.

Throughout his life, Steve Jobs’ milestones have been applauded and criticized on a grand scale. A majority of the scrutiny has involved Jobs’ leadership after the founding of the Apple Company. Undoubtedly, Jobs’ risk-taking has led to the creation of revolutionary products such as the Apple II, iMac, iPod and iPad. However, Jobs’ was not as successful with his short-lived ventures with NeXT company. Although it is well suggested that Jobs’ failures helped him mature into a well-seasoned leader, his mistakes are also equally highlighted as an example of the defectiveness in his leadership style. However, history has decided to remember Jobs in a positive light. Hence, this leave the question: is Steve Jobs the iconic, revolutionary and effective leader the mass media portrays him to be? This paper will attempt to expose to the reader that although Steve Jobs did in fact have great number of weaknesses as leader of Apple, Job’s strengths overcame his weakness resulting in Jobs becoming an effective leader. The content analysis of Jobs’ various media reporting revealing the strengths and weaknesses in his background, vision, leadership traits and employee relations will be employed to express the validity of the thesis.

Despite his reputation as one of the most innovative and successful leaders in the modern business world, the particular methods of Steve Jobs remained largely unknown until recent years. The picture that has since emerged of his leadership style is one of an innovative leader, who expected the highest quality possibly from his subordinates, and who often pushed people to their limits in order to achieve the creative genius that has come to represent Apple. This paper will look at the specific leadership characteristics that he possessed and the ways in which he molded Apple into the company that it is today. Also, seeking to particularly emphasize the leadership traits that set Jobs apart

Essay 1 : Introduction to Dell 3 Parts - Look at the Business Model in Particular (Is it fit for purpose?) – Then the Ecosystem – The Modularization and mention licensing Look the Paradigm of Dell Conclusion

Dell Computer Corporation, the second leading computer manufacturer, began by selling PC's directly to consumers. Their first customers ordered over the phone and Wold Wide Web. To this day Dell still has no brick and mortar retailers and does not distribute its product to resellers. In the business to business market Dell has excelled, but until recently, the profitable company was not so profitable in the home-user segment,(Industry Survey, Apr. 2000). The company's new strategy, to gain market share, has proven very effective. Dell now posts a 62% gain in world wide PC shipments and a 2.6 share-point gain from 8.2% in `98 to 10.8% in `99,(Industry Survey, Apr. 2000). Recently Dell's presence has been felt in the growing PC market. This has forced competitors to be very careful about pricing in this highly elastic industry. Dell's profitability is also notable, since it has minimal distribution costs and does very little advertising Dell is extremely profitable. However, rough times may be on the horizon for Dell. Analysts are worried because profit growth

The founders thought the dell’s successful for three reasons: direct sales model, VMI and JIT model, the sharing of information.

In our current times of fierce and harsh competition, customer-relationship management is emerging as an essential and critical factor in the process for companies to win the loyalty of their customers. Current customer base is so diverse, that one simple kind of strategy cannot work alone. However, a company that is able to show customer value and appreciation can leverage the potential of this diversity to ensure a successful customer business relationship. Dell Inc. is one such organization and Michael Dell is an innovative leader that provides value and strategy at managing diversity and multicultural settings. While Michael Dell continues to grow his company and his philosophy on diversity management, Michael Dell believes customer-relationship management is emerging as an essential and critical factor in the process for companies to win the loyalty of their customers and employees.

This report details an evaluation of the leadership of 21st century business leader Steven Paul Jobs, focused specifically on his role as CEO and Founder of Apple Computer better known today as Apple Inc. The report will also incorporate aspects of his roles at Pixar and NeXT Company.

For many years the Dell Corporation has been the fastest growing entity in the computer industry and is considered a pioneer in direct marketing. With the Pc industry being such a unique industry with its super fast product life cycles and having to keep up with continuous innovation, it is one of the most difficult industries to maintain a competitive edge. From the beginning Dell has been focused on customer service by understanding the customer’s