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Steve Job’s Leadership Style. Hoang Vu Dang Ha Bristol University
Steve Job’s Leadership Style. Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. There are many different leadership styles such as leaders in the political, business or other fields. Steve Jobs (24th February, 1955 – 5th October, 2011) is one of the most remarkable leadership people in modern history and he is well-known as the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc (Misa, 2011, p. 919). In any cases, Steve Jobs had displayed personal characteristics as a leader. Steven Jobs returned back to Apple when the company was going through a terrible phase and with amazing leadership style of him, Steven Jobs brought success for Apple. There are three leadership styles which he used effective in changing Apple. He realized that company required a charismatic leader to step and transform the company, applied tyrannical leadership style – hire and fire at will and risk taking and daring. Firstly, Steven Jobs is a transformational leader. Steve Job's is a visionary inventor who is co-founded and CEO of Apple Inc., the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. Before claiming his title as CEO, he had transformed no fewer than five different industries: computers, movies, music, retailing, and wireless phones... Look at the two tenures of Jobs at Apple, firstly as the visionary founder who ushered a new era in personal computing and lift the company to new heights. Steve Jobs not only revolutionized how we use computers, how we listen to music, watch videos but also transformed two industries, computers and consumer electronics and created breakthrough products and one of the firsts to be designed in tune with what the consumers wanted (Buckley, 2011). IPod, iTunes and iPhone which have revolutionized on how people listen to music today and how people willing to spend money to
Steve Job’s Leadership Style. Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. There are many different leadership styles such as leaders in the political, business or other fields. Steve Jobs (24th February, 1955 – 5th October, 2011) is one of the most remarkable leadership people in modern history and he is well-known as the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc (Misa, 2011, p. 919). In any cases, Steve Jobs had displayed personal characteristics as a leader. Steven Jobs returned back to Apple when the company was going through a terrible phase and with amazing leadership style of him, Steven Jobs brought success for Apple. There are three leadership styles which he used effective in changing Apple. He realized that company required a charismatic leader to step and transform the company, applied tyrannical leadership style – hire and fire at will and risk taking and daring. Firstly, Steven Jobs is a transformational leader. Steve Job's is a visionary inventor who is co-founded and CEO of Apple Inc., the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. Before claiming his title as CEO, he had transformed no fewer than five different industries: computers, movies, music, retailing, and wireless phones... Look at the two tenures of Jobs at Apple, firstly as the visionary founder who ushered a new era in personal computing and lift the company to new heights. Steve Jobs not only revolutionized how we use computers, how we listen to music, watch videos but also transformed two industries, computers and consumer electronics and created breakthrough products and one of the firsts to be designed in tune with what the consumers wanted (Buckley, 2011). IPod, iTunes and iPhone which have revolutionized on how people listen to music today and how people willing to spend money to
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