Leadership Insights from Steve Jobs

The assignment content is an analysis of Steve Jobs' leadership style and its application in various aspects such as ethics, conflict management, strategic planning, and power politics. The report highlights how Steve Jobs set a high standard for professional ethics, managed conflicts by categorizing them into personal and professional levels, and balanced power and politics to maintain a positive work environment.

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Leadership Analysis 1
Aspects of Ethics and Professional Codes of Conduct (Unit 10)
In a daily routine or a given task, how an individual functions along with group coding ethics
or formal code of conduct depends purely on the code which company follows. Looking upto
the inspirational person like Steve Jobs who always adhered to strict professional ethics &
others blindly followed those rules as laid by the company. When the company designs
professional code of conduct & ethics guidelines it becomes mandatory for the employees to
follow (reference pg 3). But when the leader like Steve Jobs follows it & making it part of
daily routine, then automatically group adheres to it. Steve Jobs follows strict disciplinary
issues like, reporting time, absenteeism, dressing codes or individual behaviour etc. is taken
up seriously. Besides this, Steve Jobs also follows to strict work ethics such as production,
quality check, maintaining professional decorum & hence group follows to such work ethics.
Steve Jobs was strict to rules & responsibility be it production, quality, business code of
ethics or any disciplinary issues.
Managing Conflict (Unit 11)
Conflicts are integral part of any institution or groups & how to resolve them peacefully
without creating disharmony or discord is an art which needs to be mastered by the group
leader (reference pg 2). For this, Steve Jobs first categorise the conflicts are at personal level
or at professional level related to work or because of the individual’s behaviour. If the
internal or external conflicts or due to the conflicts in between interdepartmental activities
etc. Then Steve Jobs in order to understand the gravity of situations use to take separate
meetings & will try to analyse the situation positively. In order to maintain decorum, this
might take few hours or days more to smoothen it back to functionality & for this the Steve
Jobs needs to decide whether to resolve this issue cooperatively, compromise it, negotiate or

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completely avoid it. Part of conflict resolved also depends on the number of people &
resources affected due to this situation, feedbacks from each individuals or group & how to
restore peace ethically without hampering anyone’s growth without affecting any individual
respect at any level of the given situation.
Strategic Planning (Unit 12)
In order to survive in a given framework or industry we need to strategies everything from
minute things to big things in details. Steve Jobs particularly had a sense of belongings to the
task assigned & company where he exists. To strategies a given task, he first anticipated &
calculated cost which might incur to achieve end results in a given project or finalising the
deal. After this, he formulated how many manpower required & for how many durations
(reference Pg 1-2). As a leader, he did group analysis on each & every individual after this,
assigned tasks to every individual who provide the most efficient results without getting into
any conflicts. Then to also keep an eye on quality aspect along with operational issues, Steve
Jobs assigned an additional task to be cross-checked by peer individuals without burdening
them. A suitable turnaround time was designed to deliver tasks, check quality at each & every
stages. Finally, after an optimum strategy was devised, Steve Jobs delivered a plan in details
to the group making them understand about the criticality of the task & how to stepwise
achieve it.
Power and Politics (Unit 13)
In any company, power & politics plays an important role in defining suitable career
prospects & how a company runs on it. If the company is purely a business based company,
then employees will be motivated to drive the company in the same manner (reference Pg 4).

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If the company is running on business along with the employee-centric mix then it will
functional with strong operations along with the Human Resources department. Company
visions, missions, goals are defined & scoped within the business dimensions. In the case of
power & politics, Steve Jobs use to make a balance between the superiors & the subordinates.
Sometimes there is a huge pressure from the top hierarchy which falls into the middle &
finally to lower level. Steve Jobs as a leader needs to withstand all the pressures at a times &
sometimes need to lay out a firm ground rules for every individual operating within the same
department. Hence balancing of the power is the key. Politics also mould the business
atmosphere into negative or positively, how an individual leader tackles with it. Even an
individual highly motivated & working for the betterment of the company falls into the trap
of negative politics, how he withstands it, taking it positively or negatively depends on him as
well as on the inspirational leader like Steve Jobs how he influences them. Steve Jobs as a
leader needs to safeguard the interest of each & every individual.
Application of the assessment and analysis to leadership roles and responsibilities in the
organization
The conclusion drawn from the report, interpreted from the assessment is in accordance to
internal & external guidelines of my organisation as set up by an effective leader like Steve
Jobs. There are some areas of discomfort in the company which doesn’t lay focus on an
individual level such as keeping individual respect, dignity & goals in lines to company
goals. It is not always warranted to think, in lines of business & achieving a business goals.
Steve Jobs in order to motivate individuals, keeping spirits high, he use to discuss individual
aspirations & to negotiate an ideal task or a turnaround time to do it needs to be discussed
before imposing them. Individuals performing at any levels in my organization are treated the
same & with same respect.

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According to me, the guidelines of rules & responsibilities should be firmly laid in my
organization. It should be made mandatory for every individual at every levels to adhere to it.
It should not be flexible & done out of the scope of business. But, sometimes it is duly noted,
that rules are moulded at ease & adjusted as per the employees may be due to partiality or
favouritism. Hence rules should be firmly laid within the dimensions of the business.
For this Steve Jobs use to provide training & development to its employees, imparting it at
the start of the organization, making everything transparent within the scope & vision of the
company. Power, politics, conflicts are all interrelated but how we deal at individual level &
how our superiors or leaders withstand during such situation help us to identify our own
belongings to the organization. So, I would like my organisation to do the same.

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