Introduction:
Jack Ma has been renowned as the Steve Jobs of China, as he is the forefather of one amongst the largest private business corporations in the Asian capacity. Jack Ma could initiate his business with empty hands in a highly competitive and viable environment for business in the entire globe. This person tends to consider himself as a simple man and being admired by his acquaintances and associates working in other organisations for his dressing style, which is very plain and simple and his approach towards the matters of the corporate world, i.e., humanistic. However, this person has modified the approach of conducting online business in the market of China, single-handedly, which has conveyed excellent and novel ideas and concepts to what a constructive business is about, and has assisted to endorse creativity in the individuals present in his surroundings.
This essay is primarily comprised of the creative personality and approach Jack Ma has and the theories of creativity which reflects the life and achievements of Jack Ma.
Discussion:
The initial stage of Jack Ma’s life consisted of several complexities. At that moment he was not capable of meeting the expenses of the education at high school and regardless of learning on the side, he was not recognised in the institution. Jack Ma, himself accepted that “If he came to this world a generation earlier in China, he would never have lived through the Cultural Revolution”. Regardless of all these complications, he trained himself to speak English and was employed as a “tour guide” and interpreter to attain more opportunities to explore his understandings. Jack Ma created the “Alibaba Group”, which recently has more than one billion associates among some facilities while being at home along with a precise number of friends. These friends include “Alibaba”, “Taobao”, “Alipay” and remaining ones are the Chinese peers of “Ebay, Paypal, Craig’s list and Amazon”, all together in a single group, having a variety of expertise. Primarily the group was comprised of the most significant market segment of B2B in the entire globe and has rephrased the communication technique for the SME’s in China with the dealers and the purchasers. After all of these things, Ma is satisfied with being capable of uttering that he has turned the business as a possible conduct for a vast proportion of residents in China that would remain unable to do so.
When it comes to reflecting that what marks Mr. Jack Ma of being so inspired and innovative, it must be said that it is a reality that he is fluent with what is going in his mind, and have the perceptions of business which are entirely in the opposition of the traditional ones. When he considered the business, which he originated, he did not think about generating and maximisation of the profits (Barczyk, Falk, Feldman, and Rarick, 2011). He has believed that in the present era, the motive of the new businesses is to discover an issue in the society or surroundings and tend to resolve it. As the world has witnessed, none of his businesses has been initiated to turn him out as a vibrant entity, but to make solutions of specific issues. Moreover, the money followed him as a payback to have the proper mentality. The principal aim he had is to make his consumers satisfied and happy first, then to make his employees content and exultant, while running the operations of his business.
On the other hand, he prioritises the shareholders as the least valuable and reasoned that they are the least loyal entities of a business and should be positioned on the last step to be concerned about. This strategy has turned out to the fruitful one for “Alibaba”, as the loyal consumers and employees have been capable of making “Alibaba” earn a consistent and substantial income, which drive as the disappointment and shock who stands in the opposition of “Jack Ma’s style of management” (George, 2015).
There are several corporate environments which are considered as severely competitive places, as each employee is battling against the other one to attain success. Whereas, Jack Ma – “the business magnate”, builds a more encouraging environment which truly inspires “teamwork”. He denoted his team as the members of his own family, potentially encouraging interaction among the employees and their managers, and has applied one of the essential moral conducts of any substantial corporation (Qing, 2008). That approach was considered as really remarkable and extraordinary, as the business is based on internet operations.
Coming back to the personality of “Jack Ma”, the leading power at the back of his organisations has been the creative approach through which he interacts and delivers direct and honest policies. The major competency of his personality is that he admitted, fearlessly, that he can utilise a computer system for more than just “checking the e-mails”; having insufficient technical information he is still successfully running one of the biggest “technology-based corporation” around the globe, as he recognised what part the world required to be played, and it is another reason for which he treats his workers with extreme respect and gratitude (Havinga, Hoving, and Swagemakers, 2016).
I can apply two approaches of creativity on the personality of Jack Ma, which he probably adopted to achieve the higher levels of creativity in the business world. First one is the “Psychoanalytical theory of creativity”, which illustrates that the individuals turn out to be creative in response to the complicated situations they have faced or the complex feelings and emotions they have dealt with and then strive to work creatively. The other one is the “Humanistic theory of creativity”, which depicts that human beings have six fundamental necessities. These necessities are meant to be fulfilled before achieving the heights of success.
Conclusion:
It is must to be concluded that an individual can learn to think out of the box to achieve exceptional outcomes. The creative personality of Jack Ma, made me learn that being productive and hardworking is not enough to achieve the higher levels of success but being efficient and creative are the plus points of an individual’s personality which makes him or her wear the crown of success.
References:
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Havinga, M., Hoving, M. and Swagemakers, V., 2016. Alibaba: A Case Study on Building an International Imperium on Information and E-Commerce. In Multinational Management (pp. 13-32). Springer International Publishing.
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