British Petroleum case study- Leadership

Question 1: Describe British Petroleum's overall strategy with respect to organisational and management processes since Horton's appointment as CEO. Before Horton's arrival as CEO in 1990, British Petroleum had begun to diversify into related and unrelated businesses which were gathered under the firm's umbrella of "international businesses". This strategy translated the firm's desire to decentralize its current organization which was too centralized up until then. However, the results were not those that were hoped for. Instead of …

…closer to Emma and Simon rather than to Jobs or Horton. His open mindedness is what differentiates him the most from te latter. This mostly due to the fact that his has international experience and has travelled throughout Europe. Even though he has an engineer background, like Horton, his personality surpasses what has been taught to him in terms of interpersonal skills. In other words, he is a combination of all the other four leaders.