Here are the top three alternative management styles he has been using, that we can all learn a thing or two from:
1) Do not focus solely on one aspect.
.. Believing that putting all his money into one aspect would eventually limit himself to being ‘just a website’, Ma does not solely depend on developing his site to encourage Alibaba’s growth. Instead, he places priority on other segments ...
2) Always put shareholders last.
Throughout the couple of decades of being a businessman, Jack Ma has always emphasised that if he were to rank the company’s priorities, his customers and employees will always come first ...
Ma has always placed a certain value towards his employees because he sees his employees as people who courageously stay even if the going gets rough.
3) “Small is beautiful.”
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“Companies like Wal-Mart, these big-size buyers, killed a lot of SME buyers. But now most of the SME buyers and sellers started to do business throughout the world because of the internet. So I think the world has moved. I strongly believe small is beautiful” ...
