Background of Jack Ma

Jack ma is called Steve jobs of China. He founded China's first Internet-based company in 1995.
He is the founder of Alibaba Group. He is well known because of his methodology in business
and leadership quality he has shown that had proven a milestone to the success of Alibaba group.
He is about 50 years old and one of the
billionaire in china having net worth of
about $8.4 billion. In May 2013 Jack ma
resigned from the post of CEO
surprising all. He always focused on
education and culture of people. He
considered eBay as its competitor and
assure people of Alibaba group that in
upcoming years it would beat eBay. His words proved to be true and eBay closed his Chinese
website after a huge success of taoboa.com website which was the Alibaba groups auction
website.
He aimed to be on top of Chinese commercial market. Ma was very good in English and often
spoke fluent English with translation .In his hometown of Hangzhou he was a English teacher at
Electronic Industry University. Ma will remain always a co founder of Alibaba group although
he has resigned from the post. He adopted secure business deal to grow the business of Alibaba
Group. Recently MA has launched his messaging services Laiwang to compete WeChat
messenger. Ma also focused on environmental protection while discussing growth of
organization.

Jack Ma Leadership Style

Jack Ma as a leader served the employees of Alibaba Group. Some of his traits are depicted
below that matched with the organization and bring it up.
1. Foreseeing capacity and visionary
Jack ma had foreseeing capacity which helped him future analysis of the company and
strategies in accordance with could be made. Future plan needs understanding the
problem thoroughly and then discussing. To determine the course of action, vision must

be proper for a leader. Jack Ma is the man with such vision who used his vision to find
out ultimate strategies for Alibaba Group. He always shared this vision with the other
employees and helped them to feel the future aspects of the company and how they can
make efforts for growth of organization.
2. Higher grit and tenacity
Jack was having a very positive attitude about the long term goal of the company. For
example his statement about eBay that soon it will get defeated by Alibaba product was
proving to be true. A positive trait always admired in organization. He taught his
subordinates to have such attitude toward their work. They must set in their mind that
nothing is impossible for them and each task assigned to them can be done with ease. The
workers were very much impressed with the positive attitude shown by him in each target
of the business.
Also he was the man with higher tenacity. Once in a meeting the proposal was almost
gone from Alibaba group. But Jack did not lose his patience and tried if they could get the
proposal in favor of them. Jack was successful archiving that proposal in hand of group.
The determination he shown in each task was always admired.
3. Higher endurance
Jack was always ready to bear the challenges. He never quit from difficulties. He was the
man of higher endurance. He always remained active through each of the task and
motivates the employees to do the same.
4. Ability to accept and embrace failures
A leader always accepts the mistakes and failures so that its followers do not handover
their faults to others. Jack always took the fair of share on his shoulder and accepted it.
Then he worked with full enthusiasm and got the success. Initially he was a English
teacher in a university. Teacher best know why it is necessary to accept our faults and
thats what he applied to the organization which worked successfully.

Jack mas Personal and organization values

Jack ma was a personality with many traits and of groomed organizational values. Some of his
personal and organization values are given as personal values of Jack ma includes the following
qualitiesResponsive

Jack was responsive in nature. He never disappointed anyone. It is the quality that shows the
leader is interested in behavior of the subordinates. They are being measured and each of their
activity is being measured by their leader. Ma always go among the people asking their problems
and providing them solution about it.
Integrity
Jack respects the level of trust shown by his follower. People trust him and he also trust its
employees. He always supported them and increases their morale.
Change
Jack personally is of change nature. Any organization often needs certain changes timely. These
changes are vital steps as they constitute organization to acquire current needs.
Transparency
Jack is a transparent nature personality. His policies and strategies are very clear to each of the
participants. He always included subordinates in his strategies and told them the purpose why he
chose that.
There for followings are the organizational values of JackRisk Taker
Risk is the consequence factor of any organization. Employees working in organization must
always incur risk as it is always present. Jack always taught employees to have courage about
any blunder happen to business.
Committed to quality
Jack always told the subordinated to be committed about the quality of service they are
providing. Customers are the key element of any organization. Efforts are made in order to
satisfy the customer.
Flexibility
Jack showed flexibility in his work. He easily moderates the issues arising in any circumstances
in the organization. He always procured new ideas and procedures.
Creativity
Jack always tried to finish any work on time. He has shown creativity in his work. He once said
to learn from our competitor but never to copy from them instead try some creative ideas and
thinking.
Strength and Weaknesses:
Followings are his greatest strength
Empowering nature
Jack Ma is having empowering nature. He always motivated the employees while working as a
CEO of the organization.
Learning nature
He is the man of learning nature. He worked as a teacher and deduce this strength from there.

Good communication skills

He was very good in English so always represented this business to any organization with a very
effective and easy way.
Followings are his greatest weaknessesBeing too friendly
Jack tried to be friendly in nature with the employee. Some employees might have been taken
advantage of his nature. Sometimes a leader has to make strict decision against its employees. So
being friendlier is not a good trait.
Over confident about employees
Jack always admired his employees. Sometimes its not good to always praise the employees as
they will be making errors definitely. If they are being appraised in all cases, they could get it as
lose control of administration.
Emotional
Jack Ma is an emotional person. It is not required in many of the cases as some employees take
advantage of such nature.

Quality that contributes most to this leaders success

The most effective quality of a leader is strategic planning about the organization. Jack ma
follows this trait throughout his professional life. He always made goal oriented plan and asked
the employees to execute that plan to gain success.

conclusion:
"listening to customers, to meet customer demand," Ali Baba the foundation of the survival and
development . jack Ma believes hat corporate culture from the samll start, with the culture of the
company was likely to expand. Jack Ma says, put yourself in the basic needs and difficultes sake,
employees will love the business and work hard. only a human oriented corporate culture.
employee motivation and creativity will be inspired by thus the formation of poitive interaction
with the leaders.

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