Teamwork Leadership and Business, easyGroup.co.uk, tomorrow’s leaders Introduction Behind every successful leader there is a team and that team consists of many talented people, each one specifically in a section. The team is responsible to help that leader do what is needed and also help and guide him or her through various faults they may possess. Nobody is perfect but with a successful team a leader can seem close to perfect either because of success, popularity or even creation. In the business world we have seen throughout history that companies are building from the past and through good leaders, no matter what their role in the company may be, they become very successful and prosper. www.easyGroup.co.uk The easyGroup was formed in 1998 under leadership and ideas of chairman Stelios Hadjioannou. This holding company was formed to explore new ventures and to extend his former branch of “easy” brand that began with easyJet. The goal was to capitalize upon the speedy expanding use of the Internet. The venture began with easyEverything.com, a chain of the world’s largest Internet cafes and started trading in June of 1999 and already has over 20 cyber cafes across Europe and New York. Hadjioannou’s vision of a company that will fly from point to point on a range of European routes with safety and good values has become reality through easyJet.com. This company offers great values, sometimes they are over 70% less than other companies, with flexibility because of selling one-way fares thus the traveler could buy a ticket whenever they want to. Bennalysis The lessons learned from two Warren Bennis’ books will help the analyzing of the easyGroup holding company. A significant analysis should emphasize the speed with which this company has advanced and become so popular in Europe and is used by millions of travelers. The first book is called Old Dogs, New Tricks and it basically talks about leadership trends. Bennis talks about the led and how the led need to be able to understand the leader’s visions and goals thus they will feel as a part of the purpose and value the company. Here easyGroup is a company that definitely gets the employees involved in a larger community and every single employee feels valued and involved in the project. The chairman of the company through very simple acts ad by talking to many employees on a one-on-one basis earns their respect and values their opinions. Hadjioannou also makes employees feel proud of who they are and what they do. The second book, Organizing Genius-The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, is a very educational and interesting book. It is also by Bennis and this time he mentions the importance of Great Groups and how a company cannot function through just one person. Everyone is needed and should be involved, each person is an artist in its own field. One of the most important lessons learned is that greatness starts with superb people. The people who can achieve something truly unprecedented have more than enormous talent and intelligence. They have original minds. They see things differently. They can spot the needs and gaps in situations. And so in easyGroup’s case the company has a unique leader who has brought everyone together and recruited the right people for the right jobs and entered the necessary markets. Not only this but he has advanced in many fields other than easyJet, such as easyValue and easyEverything. Conclusion EasyGroup holding company is a young company with a lot of potential that has been growing drastically for the past couple of years and will continue to do so in the future. This company is very skillful and has the right guidance, personnel and opportunities to achieve all of its goals. The report will analyze what this company has utilized so far in its growth and also what Mr. Bennis has to say about certain roles in the business world. |