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Tan Sri Anthony Francis "Tony" Fernandes, CBE (born 30 April 1964) is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". Fernandes managed to turn AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. He is also the majority shareholder of Queens Park Rangers Football Club.

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Tony Fernandes reveals how he was hired by Virgin boss Richard Branson

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Tony Fernandes shared his personal story on how he landed his first job at Virgin, and the culture of 'creating career' at AirAsia. Sila layari http://www.astroawani.com untuk berita selanjutnya. Visit http://www.astroawani.com for more news.

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Leaders should always remain accountable for their team’s actions. Bad leaders are often quick to blame others – in this instance, the weather, pilots, mechanical faults etc. – however true leaders accept responsibility, and then start the investigation within their teams. Playing the blame game is the quickest way to destroy trust and lower engagement levels. Recently, he was quoted in an interview saying, “The passengers were on my aircraft and I have to take responsibility for that.”

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This week, Harith welcomes the head honcho of the aviation industry, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. Watch our big man put the other big man on the spot. Belly bumping is a possibility. Catch the premiere episode of Obviously Harith Iskander this Saturday at 9:30pm.

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OPEN CULTURE

Tony Fernandes breaks the traditional parent and children relationship in the organization. His workspace is an open plan workspace where nobody has rooms.

He allows his employees to contact him or walk up to him on any time. Ethnicity, age, creed and gender are not a problem in AirAsia because it is meritocracy.

OPEN RISK TAKER

Fernandes did not know anything about the airline industry before he enters.

He does not care about the uncertainty risks to enter the airline industry right after the 911 terror attacks.

Risk is scary but it gives Fernandes an opportunity to develop his talents, interests, abilities and dreams.

He was willing to take risks to meet the challenge and finally he turned AirAsia into a profitable airline in two years.

VISIONARY

Fernandes has received awards for award for the "Visionaries & Leadership Series"

He communicates a vision: “Dream the impossible, believe the unbelievable, and never take no for an answer”.

He take the high risks and optimistic in achieving his dream.

He introduce “Low Cost Airline”

He created a "first" in Asia by starting a hotel chain, TuneHotels which is based on the no-frills concept

He lobbying pushed Dr Mahathir to raise the idea with the leaders of neighbouring Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore and eventually successful get the landing rights to AirAsia and other discount carriers

Visionary let him become sensitive toward what is happen in the business environment, so they will take the quick action dell with the opportunity or treat exist.

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It’s always great to see high-profile people being so down-to-earth! AirAsia’s CEO, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes perfectly demonstrated this when he was helping the stewards and stewardesses clean up a cockpit. Little did he know that he was secretly being recorded by his colleague!

Read more at WOB: http://www.worldofbuzz.com/tony-fernandes-helps-cabin-crew-clean-gets-praises-setting-good-example/