Leadership in organization is a very important trend as the leader has a large amount of responsibility to lead the direction and build good organizational culture that expressed the behaviors, rules and values critical to the attainment of an organization’s mission and strategies. Leaders who carry good leadership characteristics will benefit the organization and become an icon within the team.

Tony Fernandes is a CEO of AirAsia. His leadership style is not very clear as sometimes we see him as an autocratic leader. For example, he wanted to install the mechanism for the handicap people at zero cost. He did not make any discussion with anyone. Thus, he adopts a ‘walk around’ management style. Tony Fernandes said “If you sit up in your ivory tower and just look at financial reports, you’re going to make some big mistakes.” Thus, Fernandes believes that employees come first before his customers. He also says that “employees come number one, customers come number two’. He thinks if you have a happy workforce they’ll look after your customers anyway. Otherwise, he also considered as a democratic leader. While once he said during an interview: “We have grown AirAsia together, with everybody pitching in with ideas, actively finding new ways to increase efficiency, improve services by effectively combining technology and the personal touch, and aggressively and smartly marketing our brand,”. Tony also is a situational leader. He makes decision based on the urgent state of that current moment. It may not be something which he likes but he makes the decision because the situation forces him to train his leadership behavior. He is also work as charismatic CEO. His favorite phrase is ‘better value’. If Tony becomes possible to own the concept outright then he wants it.