Contemporary Leadership Analysis: Jeff Bezos

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assessment of leadership. The qualitative assessment of leadership consists of hundreds of traits that has been generated and listed over a century of research on many leaders throughout the history. However, some of the traits that are central to these lists include intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity and sociability (Northouse, 2016). Based on this approach, these traits are born with the leaders. The fact that Bezos, at the age of 10, calculated how much time her grandmother was deducting from her life with each puff of cigarette, to the fact that years later, "he created a technological and retail giant by trusting on the same impulsions: eagerness to tell others how to behave, an instinct for bluntness bordering on confrontation, and an overarching confidence in the power of metrics (Kitroeff, 2015)", are all signs of his impeccable intelligence. The fact that Bezos decided to quit his Wall Street job, against the opinions of his colleagues ...

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by three different researchers yet with very similar findings. Based on these researches, the Behavioral Approach mostly consists of task behaviors and relationship behaviors. Task behaviors facilitate goal accomplishment while relationship habits help followers feel comfortable during their employment both with themselves and their working environment (Northouse, 2016). Amazon's 14 leadership principles which are written by Jeff Bezos, explains how a leader needs to behave to thrive in such a fast growing industry. One of the principles that are related to the Behavioral Approach states that leaders need to have a backbone, disagree, and commit. "Leaders are obligated to challenge ...

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