Leadership: Definition, Styles, and Characteristics

Leadership

 Leadership is a quality of a person or group of persons who have the ability of
guiding or influencing his followers such that they feel motivated to achieve their
or the organization’s goals[3].
 Qualities of leader: clear vision for the goal, taking decisions, setting goals for the
followers, helping followers to achieve their goals[1].
 Characteristics of leader: trust, vision, effective communication skills, creativity,
urgency, initiative, integrity, vision, confidence, adaptability, integrity, focus,
decisiveness, responsibility, and transparency[7].
 Leadership styles:
 1. Autocratic
 2. Democratic
 3. Coaching
 4. Visionary
 5. Strategic
 6. Transformational
 7. Laissez-Faire
 8. Charismatic
 9. Transactional
 10. Bureaucratic
Definition, Styles and
Characteristics

 Co-founder of apple and Pixar
 Iconic leader
 Invented Macintosh computer
 Importance to quality over profit
 Made Apple most successful[3]
 Believed in building life
 Three Qualities of Steve Jobs
o Adaptability: most missed quality, developed patience and
discipline when away from Apple, open to criticism[4],
o Focus: led to invention of products, developed products
according to customer’s need, focused towards his goals,
o Vision: invention of unique products, iPad an example of his
visionary thinking, analysed consumer’s mind and need[6]
Steve Jobs- Characteristics

 Three leadership styles:
 Charismatic:
 Transformational
 Transactional[5]
 Charismatic:
 Charisma means ‘gift’
 Charismatic leader has affection, trust, loyalty among followers, self-worth, ambitions, high
sense of involvement, and ideology
 Pulled Apple from crisis
 Rhetorical style depending on the situation
 Brilliantly chose right mix of persuasive strategies
 Deliver constant set of message[4]
 Transformational
 Ability and source of power to influence people
 Vision-oriented
 Inspiring
 Encourage his followers’ intellectual development
 Put product over profit[1]
 Look for perfection
 Believed in creating new rather than following something
 Made Apple’s product unique through his innovation
 Able to see the future of technology through his visionary imagination
 Ability of creating ideas into products
 Motivated employees to achieve almost impossible goals[2].
Leadership Style of Steve
Jobs