3. The Virgin Group with close to 200 companies in over 30
countries.
It is one of the largest companies in the world
4. Sir Richard Branson had Dyslexia
made school struggle
Richard didn't breeze through
school.
He left school at age of 15.
5. But he have the great
business ideas an his ability
to energize the ambitions of
others
6. His first business venture was a
magazine called Student at the age of
16.
Branson sold advertising to major
corporation to support his magazine.
He include articles by minister of
parliament, rock star, intellectuals, &
celebrities.
7. In 1970, he set up an audio record mail-
order business.
He built a small recording studio & signed
his first artist “Mike Oldfield” recorded
“Tubullar Bell”
The album sold 5 million copies
In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores,
Virgin Records, later known as Virgin
Megastores.
Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during
the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic
Airways and expanded the Virgin Records
music label, virgin hotels starts in 1988,
virgin cola in 1994.
8. Sir Richard Branson skill of
empowering peoples idea to fuel
success .
When the flight attendant from
virgin airline approached him
with her vision of wedding
business, Richard told her to go
do it.
He even put on a wedding dress
himself to help launch the
publicity.
Virgin brides was born.
9. Sir Richard Branson is more a support
of new ideas than a create of them
He encourages searches for new
business ideas everywhere he goes &
even has a spot on Virgin Web site
called “Got a Big Idea?”
10. In December 1999 Richard
Branson was awarded a
knighthood in the Queen’s
Millennium New Year’s Honors
list for “Services to
entrepreneurship”
11. What next in Branson list?
He recently announced that Virgin was investing money in “trying to
make sure that, in the not too distance future, people from around the
world will able to go into space” not everyone is convinced that space
tourism came become a fully fledged part of the travel industry but
with Branson behind the idea is just may fly
12.
13. Would you classify Richard Branson as a
manager or a leader? What qualities
distinguish him as one over the other?
:- Leader
1) Employee Empowerment
2) Patiently listens to Employees’ ideas
3) Not a conventional business person
4) Energizes people towards higher
performance
5) Collaborating, Competing,
Compromising, Avoiding, Accommodating
