...Steve Jobs and Leadership “Think Different” Coll 148/Critical Thinking & Problem Solving October 6th, 2013 I. Introduction A. Steve Jobs and what it takes to be a great leader B. Who is Steve Jobs? C. What made Steve Jobs a great leader? How can I take his leadership style and qualities and be a great leader too? D. Define leadership qualities in general and relate those to Steve Jobs own leadership style and present what it takes to be a great leader in my chosen profession. II. Chosen field of Study: Network Communications and Administration A. Why I chose Network Communications. B. Expected graduation completion: 2 ½ years. III. Who is Steve Jobs? A. Why I chose Steve Jobs as my leader in the IT field. B. Steve Jobs mark on IT 1. Apple computers 2. Pixar IV. Characteristics of an effective leader A. Having the courage to act on vision B. Quieting doubts and worry C. Knowing how to influence and motivate others D. Holding oneself accountable, teach employees the same E. Train employees, provide information and help set stage for success F. Able to delegate important tasks to capable people G. Do the right thing when no one is looking H. Set the example to follow. Have the drive to do your best. I. Hire the best and brightest and give them the tools to do their jobs. V Steve Jobs effective leadership qualities A. Had the vision to make a computer for everyone...
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...A Tale of Two Steves 1 A Tale of Two Steves Joanne Greene-Blose Boston University AD643 Project Communications Professor Steve Leybourne A Tale of Two Steves 2 Joanne Greene-Blose Abstract Good leadership is key, particularly in today‟s competitive global economy, and can make the difference between the success or the failure of the organization (Bennett, 2009). This paper looks at the CEO of the top tech company in the world, Apple Inc., and analyzes his leadership style. Steve Jobs, as Jack Welch called (Elkind, 2008), “the most successful CEO today” exhibits characteristics of both transactional and transformational leadership styles. He can be perhaps best labeled as a composite of both. He possesses micromanagement tendencies, is quick to judge, frequently yells and berates his employees, and reduces them to tears. Yet he also inspires a transcending vision who can connect emotionally with both his customer base and employees (Fannin, 2005; “Transformational Leadership”, 2002). Jobs is unquestionably an enigmatic, polarizing figure – yet his formula for success cannot be denied. A Tale of Two Steves 3 Joanne Greene-Blose A Tale of Two Steves The importance of good leadership in today‟s environment cannot be overstated. Bennett (2009) identifies leadership as determining the ultimate success or failure of the organization and Ismail, Mohamed, Sulaiman, Mohamad, and Yusuf (2011) view it as the primary force in determining competitiveness in a global...
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...Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founder in 1976(Anonymous, 2002). As we were known, Apple success is known under Steve Jobs leadership. To deeply evaluate his leadership style, first of all, we need to understand clearly the Steve Jobs’ legacy both in the terms of thins and ideas. Steve JOBS attended Reed College in Portland. Unfortunately, he dropped out after six months(Stanford, 2008). There are two factors that lead to this situation: perhaps the primary reason is about expensive college tuition were being wiped out all of his working-class parents’ savings. Another contributing factor is that he found college couldn’t help him to figure out the value he wants. It is considered by many that transformational business leadership will exercise a profound influence upon the change of the company’s direction(Chirantan Basu, 2015). Two of significant essential elements of transformational leadership is about ability to bring innovation and change (Bass, 1995; Devanna & Tichy, 1996; Eastman & Pawar, 1997). Many people argue that when assessing Job’s leadership style, most people tend to characterize his leadership style as primarily transformational. As an illustration, I would like to take Steve Jobs as the typical example. As Jobs begins his second tour at Apple in the late 190s, Steve Jobs have used his special visions and super innovation to revitalized Apple Inc. And resulting in returning it to profit. Due to the internal struggled within the company...
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...Leadership style approaches: Richard Branson’s Virgin Group LTD Case Study Sandra Cole Strayer University BUS 520 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor: Dr. Jones - Ph.D. 05 January 2011 Leadership style approaches: Richard Branson’s Virgin Group LTD Case Study Branson’s leadership style in terms of the leadership models addressed in Chapters 10 and 11 and evaluates the likely effectiveness of that style in the U.S. today In determining the leadership style of Sir. Richard Branson one of the most influential, creative and charismatic leaders of business today has admired the business sense and innovative leadership style of Steve Jobs. Oddly enough, both Steve Jobs and Richard Branson both have a flair for business but both have two totally different personalities and leadership styles. It is odd to see the admiration of Steve Jobs peak the curiosity of Richard Branson as they had different ways of doing business and working with people (Branson, 2011). Leadership in the eyes of Richard Branson An article written by Richard Branson in the United Kingdom press media release in the “Telegraph”, he makes a comparison and contrast between he and Steve Jobs. Branson first identifies Steve Jobs as an Autocratic and directive leader from a situational leadership perspective. Richard Branson on the other hand sees himself being more delegative, participative, and selling as he relates to his employees and giving them their room to breathe and...
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...Medina Pashayeva 8491520 GEL/Jan12/1 Does Apple need “a great man”? After the death of Steve Jobs, management experts are wondering whether Apple will survive without Steve Jobs or not? This issue is also considered in the “InsideApple: Can It Thrive Without Steve?” article, published on the Forbes’ webpage where commentaries on the book of Adam Lashinsky “InsideApple” are provided. This article describes the aspects of the book regarding successful implementation of the “radical management system” by Apples’ incomparable leadership guru Steve Jobs. The article states that the author of the book, Lashinsky, based on the theory of organizations development, predicts an early death of Apple explaining that the company has entered the “path to senescence and death”. In turn, the author of the article, Steve Denning, specifies that “Apple’s future, therefore, depends on understanding the management principles Steve Jobs used to make it successful, while also recognizing his shortcomings. Those principles are eminently replicable business practices that, once understood, any firm can implement. It does not require “a great man”. Is it real that “any firm can implement” and does not require “a great man”? Does not Apple need Steve Jobs? When the “great guru” was fired in 1985, the situation in the company was not good enough; however, everything has changed since his return in 1997 and implementation of the strategy, which is still quite successful. Thus, CNBC reports that “Apple...
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...Steve Jobs; leadership Style ------------------------------------------------- Leadership Management Studies Fatima Ali M.Phil (Morning) Steve Jobs; leadership Style ------------------------------------------------- Leadership Management Studies Fatima Ali M.Phil (Morning) Table of Contents Steve Jobs: Change Leader 3 Steve Jobs Biography 3 Leadership Style 4 Autocratic versus participative 5 Entrepreneurial 6 Trait Theory 7 Focus 8 Judgment & Decisiveness 9 Non-conformity 10 Persistence against obstacles; Tenacity 10 Vision 11 Sociability & Inter-Personal Skills 11 Ability to Enlist Cooperation 12 Steve Jobs as a Charismatic World Leader 13 Steve Jobs as a Distant Charismatic Leader 13 Steve Jobs as a Close Charismatic Leader 14 Golden Circle Theory 15 Leadership Grid 16 Fiedler’s Contingency Model 17 Vroom-Jago Contingency Model 19 Steve Jobs and the Path-Goal Theory 20 Leader Member Exchange by a Game Changer 22 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 24 Steve Jobs as Transformational leader 25 There is No “I” in Team 28 Tuckman’s Group Development Model 30 Discussion 31 Conclusion 33 Appendix A 34 References 37 Steve Jobs: Change Leader Steve Jobs Biography Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. He co-founded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976. He was fired from his own company in 1985, but he returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997. By the time he died...
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...Abstract This report is based on defining leadership and its theories. Steve Jobs and Jeff Bozes leadership approach and style is analysed and which leadership skills are acted upon by these leaders and how they fit in the skill approach model. Furthermore, it would be analysed whether the leadership approach practiced by Steve Jobs and Jeff Bozes could have been successful in a slow moving industry such as construction or banking industry. In the end, the reflection of the most appropriate theories that I would prefer to use when opening a company like Amazon or Apple with 5 experienced people. In addition, critically evaluation of the relevant theories is also analysed. Leadership and Theories Leadership is a process in which one individual influences others towards the achievement of group or organizational goals. Leadership is a social influence and it cannot exist without a leader and followers. Leadership results in the behaviour of the followers that is meaningful and goal-directed in an organized setting. Despite the efforts of a standard definition of leadership, Fred Luthans, mentions in his book Organizational Behaviour (2005), ‘’it [leadership] does remain pretty much of a ‘black box’ or unexplained concept.’’ Leadership also means awakening passion among its followers, to have an ability to transform dreams in to reality. Leadership is an on-going process that persuades people to do right things for better future where one person encourages, inspires and motivates...
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...STEVE JOBS' UNCONVENTIONAL STYLE Steven Paul Jobs was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. and also served as a chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. Steve Jobs made lots of revolutions in the field of personal computers and smart phones. In the year of 2005, Steve Jobs displayed all unique characteristics and reasons for his success in the "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" speech in Stanford University. After this talk, the whole world recognized him in a detailed way. Regarding the supervision style, Steve Jobs was not an ordinary leader & manager that found a successful company. The most important thing behind his success was being different from others. He did not apply conventional rules on his job. He was known as a "high-maintenance co-worker" who demanded excellence from his staff and was also well known with his harsh criticism style. Furthermore, Jobs could even be arrogant, dictatorial, and mean-spirited. However; none of these qualities handicapped his success. Recently, modern management style defends that effective business leaders need to be nice, kind, humble and practice “servant leadership". I think that even though there were lots of controversies in his style according to modern management, he became a successful leader in his field. Moreover, after his death, his leadership style was shown as an example to all people who want to be leader. Firstly, he never confused leadership with management. Steve Jobs usually took a hard...
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...Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in Feburary 24, 1955. He was an adopted son of the Jobs couple from California. Jobs attended Homestead High School in California and often went to the after school lectures by Hewlett-Packard Company. It was there that he met his eventual partner, Steve Wozniak. Jobs would have his early beginnings working at Atari as a technician building circuit boards. In 1976, he would start the company Apple Inc. with Steve with funding from a millionaire investor. In 1984, he developed the Macintosh, which was the first small computer with a graphic interface in its time. It had promise to revolutionize the whole PC industry. However, bad business decision and internal stife with his CEO would eventually cause Jobs to leave his own company. He went on to start two other companies; NeXT and Pixar. Pixar would be acquired by the Disney Company and NeXT would be acquired by his own Apple Computers Inc. With the acquisition, he returned to Apple Computers Inc. in 1996 as interim CEO. From that time on, the rise of Apple Computers began again as the iMac would be developed. The famous iPod and iPhone would later be developed and it would revolutionize the whole handphone and MP3 player industry. Under his leadership, Apple Computers Inc. became a force to be reckoned with. In 2009, Jobs would have a personal net worth of $5.1 billion. However due to the need for a liver transplant, Jobs took a break from his work since January 2009. Transformational...
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...Steve Jobs and Father Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta were both exemplary leaders. In just 35 years, Steve Jobs took Apple Computers from a mere idea to a $380 billion dollar enterprise. Father Arizmendiarrieta educated and aided the first founders of the Mondragón Cooperative that today employs more than 80 000 people. Great achievements from two man who simply cannot be defined by any one “textbook” leadership style. It appears that in real life leadership theories may be applied in synergy, allowing the flexibility for a leader to adapt their style as the situation requires. Whilst Steve Jobs and Father Arizmendiarrieta were both effective leaders, one stands out. Father Arizmendiarrieta led a population to self-sufficiency and whilst never the vast financial success of Apple, Mondragón’s continuing existence is the legacy of a truly superior leader. Five theories; trait, behaviours, power motives, charismatic and transformational leadership will be discussed in turn, each one examining the similarities and/or differences Steve Jobs and Father Arizmendiarrieta displayed and how these differences made Father Arizmendiarrieta the more outstanding leader. Trait leadership is one of the original leadership theories and has resurfaced recently with Zaccaro (2006) arguing that traits and attributes combined, can be a significant predictor of leadership ability. Personality traits can be divided into general and task related traits (Dubrin 2013, pp. 37-50). Effective leaders display...
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...Table of contentsIntroduction 2Steve Jobs: often called Silicon valley pioneer and the author of unique leadership ideas 3Brand fanaticism and radical customer devotion 4Jobs’ transformational leadership 5Perfectionism, egoism and creating ‘killing products’ 5Trust in success and the chosen strategy 7Summary 7Jobs’ leadership ideas within hospitality industry 8Conclusion 11 2 Leadership: Steve Jobs The aim of the work is to consider the leadership style of the Apple's CEO Steve Jobsthrough the analysis of the articles and works connected with his business activity; it is alsonecessary to contemplate on the way his leadership style and ideas can be applied withinhospitality industry. Introduction Leadership ideas at present acquire new meaning in the hospitality industry;leadership is subjected to close research from the theoretical and practical viewpoints, as wellas from the viewpoint of its relevance and application to the hotel and hospitality business ingeneral. It has become evident, that hospitality industry needs talented leaders no less thanother economic and business areas, but as far as hospitality sector possesses very peculiar features, and is concentrated on providing its customers with unique services, leadership inthis sector is not universal, but is clear that leadership ideas taken from other prominententerprises and personalities can be used, modified and applied to the sphere of hospitality business. This paper is an attempt to analyze one of the prominent...
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... | CONTRASTING STYLE OF TWO LEADERS The traces of Leader and the act to guide have always been since the beginning of mankind. Numerous theories have been evolved; definitions have been coined by various famous and renowned authors, academicians and also from the various institutes. In today’s business active world lot of attention have been shed on leaders and various notions of leadership linked with them. Peter Drucker, in his work in 1954 pointed out that “Leadership is of utmost importance. Indeed there is no substitute for it. But leadership cannot be created or promoted. It cannot be taught or learned”. In an orthodox composition on ‘Kantian theory of Leadership’, Bowie mentioned that “leader has a hierarchical and even elitist connotation, opposite to Kant’s moral (basically egalitarian) philosophy” (Bowie, N, 2000).As per Machaivelli “power was seen as the sole purpose of leadership”. (Machiavelli, N, 1952). Were as academicians like Schiro, J. B. (1999) whose view is more vigorous; “Leadership is an elusive concept, so there are many definitions of...
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...Leadership can be described as the manner and approaches that leaders uses to direct, implement plans and motivate people. Basically, it describes how leaders react, interact and treat employees at work. According to Bass (2007, p. 1), leadership can be defined as “an interaction between two or more members of a group that often involves a structuring or restructuring of the situation and the perception and expectations of the members”. There are various leadership styles namely the autocratic, democratic, laissez faire and charismatic. Basically leaders tend to use all these leadership styles depending on the situations; however, one of the styles is always the predominant on them. It has to be noted that a particular leadership style will not be effective in an organisational setting. Hence, different styles are needed according to different situations. Steve Jobs CEO of Apple has been a successful leader in this modern era. His approach to leadership is both fascinating and confusing and that is the reason why he has been able to make Apple a successful company. He has brought a lot of changes in the life of people through his greatest advanced technology ever made namely the Mac, the iPod, the iPad and iPhone but has also introduced a new concept for business and leadership. His approach to creative leadership was remarkably high, that is inspiring others to do the impossible but at the same time Steve Job’s leadership style was complex because he always put a...
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...Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is a well-known commercial genius. To understand why Apple can become today’s Apple, Steve Jobs must be viewed from the perspective of leadership. Jobs brought the world with countless gifts. His minimalist aesthetic experience, his innovative idea and his many achievements will play long term impacts on Apple’s international success. For decades, Apple was the first to insist on its own technology and can become so powerful. It has been suggested that digital entertainment and communications significantly help Apple develop a new market. For global leaders, they must consider the cultural diversity in different countries. Various theories of leadership have different interpretations. Usually we think that leadership is to exert impact on organizational activities thereby helping organizations set goals and achieve the goals. As a typical American, Steve Jobs is an almost completely compatible with the traditional virtues of American people. For his companions, Steve Jobs is kind of arrogant, bad temper and lack of patience. Even though, as a successful leader, Steve Jobs exerts effective leadership, which can be understood from the following aspects. First of all, Leadership is the attitudes and behavior that are performed in the treatment of difficulties. For Steve Jobs, he has a strong determination to succeed. As we all know that the pursuit of ultimate quality and customer experience had led to his dismissal from Apple. However, such pursuit...
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...The qualities of a good leader are innovative leader, highly resourceful, open to change, and a good communicator. Innovative leader is who thinks “outside the box” and seeks to implement creativity and leadership within its field of business. Highly resourceful meaning utilizing the tools that is available and find out by asking questions. A leader must create access to information. Open to change by having the leader taking into account all points of view and be willing to change a policy, program, and cultural tradition that are no longer beneficial to the group. A good communicator that listens to his team members, by asking questions, consider all options, and leads in the right direction. (Holden Leadership Center 2009) In the business community, Steve Jobs is the prime example of a good leader, who took the Apple industry to higher levels of achievement. Steve Jobs is innovative leader, resourceful; open to change, and a good communicator. Steve Jobs, “stay hungry. stay foolish” captivated billions of people with his innovative ideas and he’s thankful to use his apple team to lend support. An innovative leader that created a iPhone project so he can assemble his team on specific roles to engage in the tech activity. Steve Jobs was very resourceful on improving iMac computers and latest versions of iPhones. He gave his team a trail of questions for improvement on weakness that lies within the computer software and hardware. In despite of let downs on...
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