An Empowering Leader: Steve Jobs

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Introduction:
Leadership is a social process of bringing change by influencing the roles underneath.
A leader is someone who maximizes efforts in order to achieve a goal with the respective
team members of the organization. In all great leaders, the aspects related to leadership skills
are inherited with making social influences, therefore a leader is not built but born with the
qualities.
Discussion:
This brief discussion will be followed by the aspects of leadership skills found in
Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs, the long legendary feet of Apple Inc. is considered as a niche player
of leadership skills, while making one of the largest technological giant corporation Apple
Inc. Every leader out there in the world aspires to be like him following his legendary path in
making progress in the marketing path of their organization (Heracleous & Klaering, 2017).
He as a person always focused on developing the aspects related to employee empowerment
and motivation. Considering the fact, he always expressed his views in words like “The
people I work with all are smart, and any of them can get a top job at another place if they
feel they are brutalized, but they don’t”. There is always a confidence in his words as he
knew, what are his capabilities and how can he implement them in his own sort of ways
(Yoffie & Cusumano, 2015). Therefore, the lessons can be learned by looking at what he had
accomplished in his ways to making a corporate leadership happen.
One of the main leadership aspects of Steve Jobs was that he always believed in team
work processes. In his early days with the Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, they together
performed to make things beyond possible. He always paid more attention to the product or
design details as to make things simple, functional and appealing to the customers in terms of
cost efficiency and profit generation (Hammershøj, 2018). Steve always had a point in