The Perilous Business Leader

This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is a well-known business leader and visionary, whereas the less well-known Geng Le only began to receive more attention since launching a successful gay dating app in 2012. The article focuses on the personal narratives and visions of these two IT entrepreneurs. It provides new perspectives on the role of individual entrepreneurs in relation to the Chinese state’s global ambitions and vision of creating a “strong internet country.” It argues that the commercialisation and platformisation of the Chinese internet, and the growing transnational nature of Chinese IT companies, serve to make them more, not less, co-dependent of the state and its visions. The internet’s emancipatory potential is today increasingly conflated with consumption, and online spaces and social relations are subject to both commodification and datafication.

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Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin: The Transatlantic Mass Migration and the Privatization of Prussia's Eastern Border Inspection, 1886–1914

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938909991336 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 47-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tobias Brinkmann

Keyword(s):

Turn Of The Century ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Global Markets ◽

Director General ◽

Business Leader ◽

Economic Sector ◽

Mass Migration ◽

Eastern Border ◽

Successful Business ◽

The Impact

Albert Ballin was one of Imperial Germany's most successful business leaders. He early recognized the impact and possibilities of the expansion and integration of global markets. Within little more than a decade after he had joined the management of the Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) in 1886, he turned an already significant enterprise into the world's largest steamship line. As a leading manager and later as HAPAG director general, Ballin was a major force behind Hamburg's rise to Imperial Germany's second largest city. Due in no small part to HAPAG's spectacular growth, Hamburg emerged as a key global port for passengers and freight by the turn of the century. But Ballin was not just a gifted business leader in a highly innovative economic sector; he also had access to some of the highest figures in Berlin. Ballin repeatedly met with the Kaiser and government members, and he used his long-standing contacts in England on several diplomatic missions to ease rising tensions between the two powers, albeit without lasting success.

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IndiaFirst Life Insurance: Planning Next-Level Growth by Corporate Entrepreneurship

Vision The Journal of Business Perspective ◽

10.1177/09722629211010996 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 097226292110109

Author(s):

Amarpreet Singh Ghura ◽

Abhishek

Keyword(s):

Human Resource ◽

Life Insurance ◽

Insurance Industry ◽

Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽

Business Leader ◽

Insurance Sector ◽

Human Resource Policies ◽

Life Insurance Industry ◽

Customer Delight ◽

Annual Premium

IndiaFirst Life Insurance (IFLI) became the 23rd entrant in India’s life insurance industry by launching its operations in November 2009 (IndiaFirst Life Insurance, 2015). IFLI went on to break-even within 6 years of its inception by declaring maiden profits in FY 2015–2016 (IndiaFirst Life Insurance, 2015). The company stated its vision as—‘To become a Life Insurance and Pension business leader that provides significant value to all its stakeholders enabling a true customer delight’ (IndiaFirst Life Insurance, 2015). In order to implement its vision, IFLI worked its human resource policies and processes around the ‘Employees First’ approach (IndiaFirst Life Insurance, 2015). These processes had helped IFLI to become the fastest-growing company in the life insurance sector, and it was ranked 12th amongst the private insurers in terms of market ranking in individual annual premium equivalent for FY 2016–2017 ( Times of India, 2017). The company aimed to become a top 10 life insurance provider in the next few years in India in terms of retail premium business ( Times of India, 2017).

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Should a Business Leader Talk Like a Lawyer or a Judge?

Legal Language and Business Communication ◽

10.1007/978-981-13-7534-7_3 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 59-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anurag K. Agarwal

Keyword(s):

Business Leader

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Educational Leadership for Enhancing Quality in Teacher Education

Educational Leadership and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1624-8.ch075 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1632-1654

Author(s):

Neeta Baporikar

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Educational Leadership ◽

Business Leader ◽

Separate Entity ◽

Educational Leader ◽

Educational Aims ◽

Theories Of Leadership ◽

Special Case ◽

Central Purpose

Educational leadership refers to the process of soliciting and managing the capacities and vitalities of teachers, pupils and parents toward achieving common educational aims. Educational leadership also refers to an individual or group of people who are in charge and lead schools, institutions, programmes and students. The development of leadership as a separate entity goes some way in arguing that an effective educational leader will share much of the same characteristics as a successful business leader. If one sees leadership as a distinct vocation, then one can see that many of the skills and traits are transferable. However, education is a special case, because teaching students has to be the central purpose that educational leadership must reflect. Hence, even if it is drawn from various existent theories of leadership, yet the success is dependent on how much it would enhance the quality of teacher education. The overall mission of this valuable study is to aid researchers in recognizing and understanding the need of educational leadership for enhancing the quality of teacher education.

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Let´s Talk SMAC

Research Anthology on Strategies for Using Social Media as a Service and Tool in Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-9020-1.ch002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 27-45

Author(s):

Cathrine Linnes

Keyword(s):

Marketing Strategy ◽

Personal Information ◽

Brand Value ◽

Business Leader ◽

Business Operation ◽

Customer Base ◽

Cloud Technologies ◽

The Way

Social Mobile Analytics and Cloud – SMAC the new abbreviation that every business leader is thinking off. It is also part of everyone's lives these days. SMAC technologies are creating enormous opportunities across industries while the consumer willingly gives up personal information. Cloud technologies have made it possible to collect and store such large amounts of data. While each of these four technologies are able to enhance the business on its own, using these four technologies together as a stack has changed the way businesses are looking to maximize their customer base, enhance brand value and off course, increase company profit. For example, SMAC has forced businesses leaders to make analytics part of their marketing strategy and business operation as a whole.

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