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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Name: Lee Kuan Yew</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Date of birth: 16 September 1923</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Singapore</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Designation: Member of Parliament (Singapore's First Prime Minster)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Education: University of Cambridge Double Starred (double First Class Honours) Law</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lee Kuan
Yew is a Singapore Politician. Often being recognise as “Founding Father of
Modern Singapore”, he is also one of the most influential politician figures in
Asia. Lee was Singapore's first Prime Minster of Singapore, with his successful
ministerial position over 50 years, acknowledge him as history’s longest
serving ministers, and finally on 14 may 2011 he officially announced his
retirement from the cabinet after the general election in 2011.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lee was
born as British subjects, studied at Raffle’s College, and later further his
studies at University of Cambridge majoring in law, graduating with Double
Starred First Class Honours. Upon returning from his studies, he worked under a
law firm as a legal advisor to the trade union, which later expose him to step
into politics. He had gone through the four era of Singapore, from the colony
of British, to the Japanese Occupation, thirdly the Malaysia ruling after the
World War Two and finally the independent state Singapore. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">November
12 1954, Lee and a group English-educated, formed the PAP. There were mixtures
of different members, which consist of pro-communist and non-communist members,
both party needed each other’s supports at that time to “break free” from the
British ruling. In the national elections on 30 May 1959, PAP won 43 of 51
seats in the legislative assembly. Singapore gained self-government in all
state matters except for defense and foreign affairs, Lee then became the first
Prime Minister of Singapore on 3 June 1959.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">During
1961, Lee decided to join Malaysia and form a federation which include Malaya,
Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak in order to end the colonial ruling under the
British. However, this federation did not stay long, due to a
conflict between the Chinese and the Malays which then cases a race riot. In
order to end the tension, the only solution is to pull out from the federation,
at this point of time, Singapore was not ready to separate from Malaysia. Lee was
against the ideal of separating, but he also understands that the secession was
inevitable to minimize further bloodshed. Leaving with no choice, Lee decided
to sign a separation agreement on 7 August 1965 which discussed about Singapore
post separations with Malaysia in order to continue cooperation in areas such
as trade, and mutual defense. Finally on 9 August 1965, Lee officially
announced the separation, and full independence of Singapore.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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period might be the lowest period in Lee’s life, facing three main concerns
such as national security, economic, and social issue. On the other hand, this
is also the tuning period for Singapore success brought by Lee. Being a very
weak new born country, Lee began to seek international recognition of Singapore’s
independence by joining the United Nation on 21 September 1965. At
the same time, Lee ask Goh Keng Swee (Singapore first minster for interior and
Defense) to build the Singapore Arm Forces (SAF), and requested for help from
other countries, for advice, training and facilities. Lee also makes it
compulsory for all able bodies Singapore male age 18 and above to serve
National Service. Lee always placed importance in developing Singapore economy,
his meticulous attention to this aspect was so extensive that he had to tend to
the Singapore national image of being a “Garden City”, something that had been
sustain till today. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lee also
introduce legislation giving the Corrupt Practice Investigation Bureau (CPIB)
greater authority to conduct arrest, investigating bank account, income tax
return of suspected person and their families to ease corruptions. He also
believes that ministers should be well paid in order to maintain a clean and
honest government. In 1994, Lee propose to link salaries of ministers, judges,
and top civil servants to salaries of top professionals in the private sector,
to help to recruit and retain talent to serve in the public sector. On 28
November 1990, Lee finally step down, handing over his prime ministership to
Goh Chok Tong, Lee, as then the world’s longest serving prime minister, and it
was also the first leadership transition sine independent. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At this
point of time, Lee remained still remain in the cabinet, with a non-executive
position of Senior Minster, and play a role as advisory. He was then ascended
to the title of Minister Mentor created by his son Lee Hsien Loong, who is now
the third Prime Minister of Singapore. On 14 May 2011, Lee decided to leave the
cabinet for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his team to have clean slate.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As we can
see from above, the way he leads Singapore into independence and transforming
it from a small settlement from the British colony to one of the most developed
state in Asia today, solely depending on its people as the only natural
resource.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">His
promise to his people to lead Singapore out from foreign ruling, and colonial
domination was fulfilled, not only did he kept his promise to his people, he
did it by excelling the expectation. Lee is definitely someone, who people
wants to instantly follow.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looking at the policies he had made, Lee definitely is able to make decision
alone, and having full authority to lead his followers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of stepping down from being the prime minister to being an advisor, and finally
step out of the cabinet. Shows that he is a people oriented leader, who is able
to effectiveness and efficiency supports, trains, and develops his
followers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lee indeed display traits of a Transformational, Charismatic, Autocratic, and
People-oriented leader which why he is widely respect and praised by many
Singaporeans, and other world leader.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We have learnt that
communications is essential for a leader to lead the team. There are many kinds
of communication. For example Mr. Lee Kuan Yew uses the non-verbal
communication to maintain the brotherly hood of Singapore and Malaysia by
making the national language of Singapore Malay, although the common that we
speak is English. This was to maintain the peace and stability of Singapore, as
mention that the separation was due to race riot. It was a non-verbal means to
show that Singapore is willing to keep in a good relationship with Malaysia
although we have separated, we wants to keep this brotherhood of both country
strong so that the citizen will remain and stay in the peaceful era. And this
non-verbal communication was proven to be effective as even after the
separation there is no major dispute over both countries regarding racial
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being the leaders of Singapore, he travel around to overseas for social visit,
this is one of the most common ways of showing communications act, leader will
need to travel around to build a good relationship with other countries, so
that we will be connected and build mutual trust. We can see communication a
basic thing that we are doing every day, but however if a wrong signal is being
send over, disaster might happen. It is very important that during all kind of
communication, we are sending the correct information over. Imagine if Mr. Lee,
make Chinese language as the National language, because majority of Singapore
is Chinese, what would the consequences be? Needless to say, other races will
feel that they are not being treated fairly and another race riot might occur.
Hence, in conclusion, it is essential to be able to communicate effectively, it
is the most important skills for everyone to master.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://leadershiprocks.tripod.com/id3.html">http://leadershiprocks.tripod.com/id3.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Name: Robert Earl</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Birth date: 29 May 1951</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Organization: Planet Hollywood</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Designation: CEO and Founder</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Education: Graduated from University of Surrey with honors degree in Hotel and
Catering Management 1979</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Introduction </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Robert, Earl, chief executive officer,
Planet Hollywood. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Robert Earl founded Planet Hollywood in
1991. Earl also is co-chairman of BHM Gaming Opportunities, the owner of the
former Alladdin Casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Planet Hollywood owns a
global chain of 20 show-business-themed restaurants located primarily in
tourist hot spots. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Early Career Path </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In 1977, Mr. Earl founded President Entertainment,
a company that developed theme restaurants. Under Mr. Earl's leadership, over
the next ten years, President Entertainment grew to a $120 million enterprise.
In 1987, Mr. Earl sold President Entertainment to Pleasurama PLC ('Pleasurama')
and joined the Pleasurama management team, where he assumed responsibility for
the management of another theme restaurant, Hard Rock Cafe PLC ('Hard Rock
Cafe'). During his five years in charge of Hard Rock Cafe, Mr. Earl pioneered
its expansion from seven to twenty-two units while substantially increasing its
profitability. In 1993, Mr. Earl resigned from Hard Rock Cafe to concentrate
full time on running Planet Hollywood. He serves as Chairman of ECE, S.A. de
C.V. Since November 1998, Mr. Earl has been Chairman of the board of directors
of Planet Hollywood. He served as Co-Chairman and Director of OpBiz, a subsidiary
of Bh Re Llc until January 2009. He has been Director of BUCA, Inc. since
September 2008. He has been a Director of Planet Hollywood International Inc.
since 1991. Mr. Earl served as Executive Director of SMI Corp. Ltd. (formerly
known as Star East Holdings Ltd.) since November, 2000. Mr. Earl’s
contributions to the restaurant industry have been acknowledged through many
awards and accolades including the very prestigious Time Magazine’s 'The most
influential People in America 'in 1997. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Birth of Planet Hollywood</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mr. Robert Ian Earl opened his first Planet
Hollywood restaurant with partners like Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and
Arnold Schwarzenegger in New York 1991. This was followed with the new opening
in locations across the world including London's West End, Kuwait, Cancun in
Mexico and Las Vegas. He has over 31years experience in the restaurant
industry. Mr Robert Earl wants to bring theme restaurants to "another
level". Allowing customers to immerse in the feel of being in
Hollywood. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bankruptcy </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In 1999, Planet Hollywood went bankrupt and
numerous restaurants were closed down. They only kept going in a few of its
original locations with the help of new investors from Saudi Arabia who made a
relatively modest investment in the company. After the crisis faced, they
learned:</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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isn’t enough. ‘These bozos thought, cynically, it was enough to
trade on their Hollywood backgrounds. Bad move, fellas,’ wrote
Malcolm Gluck.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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is crucial. Word-of-mouth is more important than advertising and media
exposure when it comes to eating out.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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notion of ‘Hollywood’, should have been the theme.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">However, in 2001, Planet Hollywood filed for
bankruptcy again. This round was due to the downturn in in tourism after
the terrorist attack. The company said it filed for Chapter 11
reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida, and
such measures will enable all restaurants to stay open for business. Through
that, Planet Hollywood stressed it was back on the road to profitability
focusing on core restaurants in major tourist locations, but reluctance in
tourist travel has proved costly. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But Mr. Earl was determined to eradicate the sting
of that collapse, which was memorialized in headlines like “Rocky K-O’d” and
“Arnold Terminated.” The name Planet Hollywood may still be shorthand for a
cultural and financial bubble. But Mr. Earl, who lost more than $1 billion on
the way down, has managed to retain control of the company, now a much slimmer,
privately held chain of a dozen or so restaurants.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The real embodiment of his redemption, however, is
taking shape in the hulking form of a shiny new Planet Hollywood Casino and
Resort on the site of the old Aladdin casino in the middle of the Las Vegas
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The casino’s official opening is slated for the
weekend of Nov. 16. Mr. Earl is overseeing final renovations that include,
among the 2,500 rooms, penthouses named after celebrities who will occupy their
namesake lairs while in town, but which the rest of us can inhabit for as
little as $599 a night.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I can’t abide by failure,” Mr. Earl, 56, who is
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celebrities, including Pete Sampras and Roger Clemens, who will
be affiliated with the casino and hotel and serve as its ambassadors. The idea
is similar to one used in the original Planet Hollywood, where a lineup of 32
celebrities received stakes in the project, but this time, he said,
only Bruce Willis and Mr. Stallone are co-investors. “I’ve been
strongly trying to communicate to everyone that ‘this is not your old Planet,’
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Walter Elias Disney aka Walt Disney, creator of
Mickey Mouse and founder of the Walt Disney Corporation, was born on
December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. Since young, he was interested in art
and would sell his drawings to his neighbours to make extra money. He
studied art and photography at McKinley High School; at night, he took
courses at the Chicago Art Institute so as to pursue his art
career. After he was rejected by the army, Disney left for France. He
drove an ambulance and chauffeured Red Cross officials for a year over there
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Once he returned, he decided to pursue a commercial
art career, which lead to his experiments in animation. He produced short
animated films for local businesses in Kansas City. Nevertheless, Walt ran out
of money when he started creating The Alice Comedies; his company
Laugh-O-Grams went bankrupted. Rather than giving up, Walt headed for Hollywood
to start a new business and at that time he was even twenty-two. Together
with his brother, their wives and partner, Iwerks, produced three cartoons
featuring Walt’s Mickey Mouse in the year 1928, which brought him to huge
success in the animation industry. He continued producing films and characters
and in the year 1955, he accomplished one of his dream by opening the $17
million Disneyland. Walt’s 43-years of success was because he carried his
vision and mission with him and over into other areas of cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A successful leader needs to have followers. In
order to do so, Walt Disney was said to have possessed many leadership
styles. In 1936, Disney built his enterprise in Los Angeles, CA and select
700 highly skilled artistic employees. Not only that, striving to produce the
best work, he went around the country seeking for artists to come work for him.
He offered to subside for their education to perfect their skills whereby
helping others is a consistent trait of an effective leader. He drew
people in with his charismatic charm and family-like work environment. For
instance, in return for the excellent job done, he invited his employees to his
house for barbecue on Sundays. This instills trust and a
sense of caring in the employees. In addition, Walt Disney requested for his
employees to address him as “Walt” or “Uncle Walt” which made them feel welcome
and warmth. His friendliness and family-like relationships with his employees
built faith and confidence in Disney and its vision and his employees were glad
to work long hours without any salary as they believed in what they were doing.
Additionally, Walt understood and was able to accept the process of change.
Change is unavoidable in any circumstances. One need to learn to embrace it and
use it as an improvement opportunity and not to say, Walt knew that and he was
always a step in front of change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yet, after Walt moved into his new studio, he
changed. He became more demanding and controlling, where he exercised an
autocratic leadership style. If he did not like what the employees do or say,
he would fire them immediately. Nonetheless, he would still asked for
employees’ ideas or input through employees’ survey which made him a
participative leader. Lastly, coherence is possibly the strongest leadership
capacity that Disney possessed. He constantly brought things together to
encourage conversation. Walt knew how to prioritize and focus his work due to
his moral purpose. He demonstrated all of the criteria needed for a true
leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Above are a few examples of what Walt Disney had
done as a leader. He did more to touch the hearts, minds, and emotions of
millions people than any other man in the past century. Through his work, he
brought joy, happiness and a universal means of communication to the people of
every nation. Based upon the ideas which his name represents: imagination,
optimism and self-made success, Walt is undeniably a legend and a folk hero
of the 20th century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://jbarroned614.blogspot.sg/2009/02/leadership-capacities.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://jbarroned614.blogspot.sg/2009/02/leadership-capacities.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in
the world, with 20,891 stores in 62 countries. Starbucks serves hot and cold
beverages, whole-bean coffee, mircoground instant coffee, full-leaf teas,
pastries and snack. The company expanded rapidly since its opening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Giornale (The Daily), the venture was a hit. However, he did not have the
capital to expand on his brand. Later, in 1987, Howard Schultz purchased
Starbucks and merged the stores with his own and became CEO and chairman of the
company. In 2000, he announced that he was leaving Starbucks. 8 years later,
Howard Schultz returns and continues to run the company, believing that growth
should not dilute the company’s culture and the common goal of the company’s
leadership to act like a small company. On the other hand, Howard
Schultz’s believes in giving back to the society by going beyond of being just
an ordinary coffee house to a meaningful company, Starbucks purchases quality
coffee beans directly from the farms which in return give farmers better living
standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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number of coffee bars he encountered. An idea then occurred to him: Starbucks
should sell not just coffee <i>beans</i>, but coffee <i>drinks</i>.
Schultz's enthusiasm for opening coffee bars in Starbucks stores was not being
acknowledged. Nevertheless, with his persistent, the owners let him establish a
coffee bar in a new store that was opening in Seattle. It was an instant
success, bringing in hundreds of people per day and introducing a whole new
language: the "cafe latte"—both the beverage and the word—were
introduced to Seattle in 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shot and killed. Howard Schultz visited the home of each victims
to expressed his grievance and shared in their tears for their loses.
Through this incident Howard Schultz had displayed leadership trait
of empathy and compassion which influence Howard
Behar to work for him because of his courageous and compassionate heart, a
leader who wanted to give his best efforts to serve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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, awarded the "Israel 50th Anniversary Tribute Award" for playing aa
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">1999,
awarded the "National Leadership Award" for philanthropic and
educational efforts to battle AIDS.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">2004,
awarded the "Internal Distinguish Entrepreneur Award" for his
outstanding success and commendable conduct of Starbucks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">2007,
received the FIRST responsible Capitalism Award.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">March
29, 2007, awarded for "Ethics in Business"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Fortune
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</span>Great Leadershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09498609370418828420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091305838940565880.post-65634585080698898302013-06-25T21:33:00.003-07:002013-07-04T08:04:40.870-07:00Sheldon Gary Adelson<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Date of Birth: August 4, 1933</span><br />
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it all is the key to any entrepreneur. It’s a willingness to do things a little
bit different… Change the status quo and then you’ll succeed.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sheldon Gary Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Las
Vegas Sands Corporation. In his early life, at the age of 12 he started to sell
newspaper and at 16 he began a candy-vending-machine business. Through selling
newspapers on the street during his youth and setting up other businesses such
as airline and tradeshow for computer industry, he has gained and knew
different work experiences. At the head of the company Las Vegas Sands
Corp., he manages a number of casinos and luxury hotels. He was classified in
2011, the sixteenth World fortune by Forbes’s magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adelson has change the gaming industry by developing integrated resorts,
which have a large offering of entertainment attractions, including retail and
restaurant. He was also the first casino operator to embrace convention and
meeting business. In an interview in 2002, he mentioned about the expansion
project of opening a mini-Las Vegas Strip in Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As a leader, he took the risk of trying to lure convention into Las
Vegas. Today, the city now depends on conventions to fill its hotel rooms.
Instead of being like other entrepreneurs where they are satisfied with just
building a hotel, Adelson took the challenge to create an integrated resort –
one with shopping, convention facilities, fine dining, gaming, and other
attractions all under one roof. Because of the diversification compared to its
competitors, Adelson was able to boost the company’s earnings. Besides being
known as a self-made billionaire, Adelson is also one of the world’s leading
entrepreneurs credited for the transformation of the city of Las Vegas from a
gaming location into an international business and leisure destination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Always challenging and changing the status quo, Mr. Adelson developed a
resort destination that caters to a blend of tourist, gaming, and business
travellers. Challenging the status quo as a leadership behaviour requires the leader to create and maintain a balance between changing respectfully and being a team player. In addition, because of his willingness to take the risk, he is able to lead to team towards innovation, improvement of processes. Since the opening of the resort, it has received recognition as
revolutionizing the Las Vegas hotel industry and has been honoured with
numerous awards naming it one of the finest hotels in the world. Furthermore,
this has also led governments in places like Macao and Singapore to select Las
Vegas Sands to boost the economy with new tourism developments of an integrated
resort in their countries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The secret behind his success? </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Determination and innovation</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. Some of the key traits as a leaders
mentioned by others are that he has a </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">strong vision</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> for his company, </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">risk-taking</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">detail oriented</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">strategic thinking</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">commitment</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">ambitious</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, </span><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">goal oriented</span> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and</span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">resilient</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. As there is no truly a fixed
leadership and management style, it is wise for leaders to be flexible when
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In his organisation, team members are encouraged to contribute
efficiency ideas through our sustainability award program and they can win a
prize for each implemented idea. In 2011, the Sands ECO360° Sustainability
Award was presented to an employee for his suggestion to replace
conveyer toasters in the Team Member dining room with pop-up toasters. This
idea has helped to reduce the amount of energy consumption rate per year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The recognition of sustainability efforts and encourage the business to
carry plans of expanding sustainability practices to its global
operations. To create a unity in direction, Adelson and his people have
refined the Sands ECO 360° strategy to make it consistent across all
resorts. Communication is even more a critical element for him to achieve his
goals, since he enjoys challenging the status quo. With effective
communication either upwards, downwards or lateral, it ensures the team
members and other stakeholders understand the need of change to maximize the effectiveness
of the implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sheldon Adelson is a great leader as he has a great heart. He sets an
example by giving back to the community. Las Vegas Sands has multiple
partnerships through Sands Foundation in Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Macau and Singapore
to help raise fund for educational and health purposes in the communities it
operates as well as through the Sands 360 program to minimize environmental
impact.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With his contribution to the hospitality industry, he has displayed
great qualities as a leader for he is willing to take the risks to accomplish
what he envision, involves his staff and gives back to the society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2013 awarded for Innovation and Excellence in Global Tourism
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2012 awarded the Hospitality Industry Leader of the Year by the UNLV’s
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References:<br />
<a href="http://www.sands.com/corporate-overview/leadership/sheldon-adelson/">http://www.sands.com/corporate-overview/leadership/sheldon-adelson</a><br />
http://ksbhospitalityindustry.blogspot.sg/2011/09/green-sands.html<br />
<a href="http://www.sands.com/corporate-overview/leadership/sheldon-adelson/">http://www.sands.com/corporate-overview/leadership/sheldon-adelson/</a><br />
http://topics.wsj.com/person/A/sheldon-g-adelson/587#</div>
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leader, it is important for one to build and adopt the traits and behaviours.
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