Albert John Dunlap's Success Story

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“When you play a sport, you have a game plan. I play tennis. I always know what I am going to try and do during the course of the match. I may have to adjust as the game goes on and I learn things about my opponent’s strengths and weakness. That new knowledge requires changing the game plan. But I always have a plan to win.” Albert John Dunlap’s strategy for success was tactical and aggressive, constantly redefining itself to adapt to changing conditions in his business’ market. Despite being placed on several lists of worst CEOs, Dunlap became a success story, wherein his alternative behavior gave him a renowned reputation. His main goal was increasing companies’ profits by cutting expenses. Indeed, he considered the workforce the first …show more content…

One day, your boss comes to your desk with bad news: you’re fired. This is exactly what happened to Jerry Chambless, a forty-nine year old man who unfairly lost his job in Dunlap’s chainsaw massacre. The stress caused by his unemployment ultimately caused him to have a stroke that left him in a wheelchair. “I hold Al Dunlap fully responsible for what’s happened to my husband,” the stricken supervisor’s wife told reporters. “Look at all the lives he’s destroyed.” Al Dunlap has been considered a paramount example of bad leadership. His attitude of believing to know more than others created terror among employees, transforming them into robots waiting for instructions. Moreover, his arrogance and indifference also negatively contributed to the overall reputation of the companies’ employee relationships, wherein the negative repercussions on the productivity of the companies ultimately left them impoverished and with a damaged organizational structure. Facebook employees were unhappy about their jobs; in fact, as shown in Figure 2, almost all of them were dissatisfied with their …show more content…

A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being ‘just’ a company means to me is building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.” Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the CEO and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. Nowadays, he is considered one of the best CEOs of the United States. In 2010, he was declared as a Time’s magazine “Person of the Year”. In addition, in 2012, he was nominated on the list of the World’s Billionaires on Forbes with a net worth of $17.5 Billion. His primary goal was not to just make money, rather to build something that would have changed the world, which he ultimately accomplished. In fact, he believes that money only ruins you if it becomes your life goal. “99% of Facebook employees love Mark Zuckerberg.” His main secret is removing barriers with employees. You should make people feel like equals to show that you value them; for example, Zuckerberg’s office has glass walls. He strongly respects and believes in his employees, rewarding the quality of their work. He is always available to communicate and to interact with