Leadership Styles

Sundar Pichai

·        Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet.

·        He led the development of the Google Toolbar and Google Chrome.

·        Pichai helped launch the Android operating system.

·        Sundar Pichai represented Google during congressional hearings on the technology industry's practice of data collection.

·        He allows employees to play a role in making important decisions on company operational issues through the use of open discussions and brainstorming while encouraging innovation and creativity.

What Leadership Style is Sundar Pichai?

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Laissez Faire

• Transformational

Mark Zuckerberg

·        Mark Zuckerberg is a self-taught computer programmer and the co-founder, chair, and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook).

·        According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg's net worth as of June 10, 2022, was about $68.2 billion.

·        Facebook has 2.93 billion monthly active users as of the first quarter of 2022, making it the biggest social network in the world.

·        In 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, founded the Chan Zuckerberg foundation with the goal of delivering "...personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people, and building strong communities."

·        In April 2018, Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill about Facebook's use of users' information, including the sharing of 87 million users' information to Cambridge Analytica.

·        Zuckerberg encourages his employees to come up with creative ideas and innovative solutions. He gives them freedom to reach their goals and targets.

What Leadership Style is Mark Zuckerberg?

•  Autocratic

• Democratic

• Laissez Faire

• Transformational

Elon Musk

·        Elon Musk cofounded six companies including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and tunnelling startup Boring Company.

·        He owns about 23% of Tesla between stock and options but has pledged more than half his stock as collateral for loans.

·        SpaceX, founded in 2002, is worth $127 billion after a funding round in May 2022; it quadrupled its value in three years.

·        Boring Company, which aims to defeat traffic, raised $675 million in April 2022 at a $5.7 billion valuation.

·        Twitter's board agreed to sell the company to Musk for $44 billion in April 2022, after he disclosed a 9.1% stake and threatened a hostile takeover. The deal closed in October 2022 after Musk tried to back out and Twitter sued. Musk now owns an estimated 74% of the company.

·        Musk leads his organisation with an iron fist and is not afraid to fire his top staff publicly.

What Leadership Style is Elon Musk?​ ​

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Laissez Faire

• Transformational

Jeff Bezos

·        Jeff Bezos moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1994 to open his virtual bookstore; he incorporated the company the same year. Amazon sold its first book in July 1995.

·        In June 1998 it began selling CDs, and later that year it added videos.

·        Bezos saw the need to diversify, and by 2005 Amazon offered a vast array of products, including consumer electronics, apparel, and hardware.

·        In late 2007 Amazon released a new handheld reading device called the Kindle.

·        Amazon has a net worth of around $386 billion.

·        Bezos is known for constantly driving the need for innovation from his employees.

What Leadership Style is Jeff Bezos?

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Laissez Faire

• Transformational