Steve Jobs: Leadership Styles And Characteristics

Leadership Styles And Characteristics

I selected Steve Jobs for the purposes of this paper because I considered him one the greatest leaders of our time. I will start with a brief description of Apple Inc. the company that he founded with Steve Wozniak.

About the Company

Apple Inc. is a multinational corporation leader in design and manufacturing of electronic devices and software. The company is recognized for being ahead for the innovation of electronic gadgets. Apple operates over 250 retail stores in different countries, where their gadgets are sold and provide technical support. The best company known products include Macintosh computer, iPods, iPhone, and several software products like Mac OS X, iTunes, iLife, Final Cut Studio, etc. (MIRABAL,

Analysis the leadership styles and characteristics

Steve Jobs main leadership styles in my opinion were: directing and coaching. Mr. Jobs was a great director of the company and he showed in different occasions where he was able to bring to company afloat after hard times. At the same time, he was very good in development people skills to reach his goals. Even though, sometimes his methods were questionable.

I think Mr. Jobs’ key leadership characteristics were: focus, passion, shared vision, persuasive and fearlessness. When Mr. Jobs started a project, he focused until it was completed and most of the cases he was in top of it. That also shows the passion he had for his work. He had a great shared vision, he was able to give to his subordinates the energy and motivation and building a shared interest in the organization and its goals (Grimsley, 2016). He was persuasive, he was able to persuade people either by reason or the use of enticement. Mr. Jobs was fearlessness; he would fight for his ideals to the point that it would conflicts within his

is a global company, therefore, environmental factors can affect it but in a small scale. In 1999 there was an earthquake in Taiwan where most of the computers chips where manufactured at that time. There were some delays on some products but the industry was able to get back on track. In the case of Apple Inc. In my experience with company similar to Apple Inc., we were producing a part for them but they always required a secondary supplier in another state or country. Therefore, if our company was down due to an environmental factor, the can switch to full production to the secondary supplier.

Social factors can influence this company; such is the case of the Chinese market where iPhone sales could ban due to claims that Apple violated design patents on certain small Chinese manufacturers. This case shows where the politics are creating a conflict on the Apple’s market and could be just because of groups of interest pressure a government to favor the local products.

Leadership is about taking in account all the factors that may affect the sales or production of a product, that is why a good leader should have a good contingency plan.

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