SIR RICHARD SIR RICHARD BRANSONBRANSONPresented BySandeep Mane Yogesh Vinod Jaydeep

Companies cost  $ 25 billion

The Virgin Group with close to 200 companies in over 30 countries.It is one of the largest companies in the world

Sir Richard Branson had Dyslexia made school struggle

Richard didn't breeze through school. 

He left school at age of 15.

But he have the great

business ideas an his ability

to energize the ambitions of

others

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.  

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.

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.

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?”

In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Millennium New Year’s Honors list for “Services to entrepreneurship”

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

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