Leadership in Starbucks Corporation - Howard Schultz

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The leadership styles might refer to the approaches and the manners which is used for
providing the direction to the concerned employees, the implementation of the plans and thereby
providing the employees with the needed motivation. The leadership styles might be observed by
the employees to be the combined amount of the various implicit as well as the explicit actions
that are undertaken by the concerned leaders (Rubin, 2013). Starbucks Corporation, an American
company dealing in coffee and a chain of coffeehouses, might boast of having one such leader
who demonstrated highly appreciable leadership skills, the past CEO of the company, Howard
Schultz. The following essay deals with the various characteristics, knowledge and skills of the
leadership that was followed by the eminent leader. The essay further tends to look into the
matters that pertain to the earlier experiences of the leader and the influences of these
experiences on the leadership style that is depicted by the concerned leader in discussion. The
essay further proceeds to discuss the development of the leadership skills and characteristics
within the leader. The essay finally nears its conclusion with the discussion of the various
leadership approaches, concepts and methods that are implemented by the concerned leader in
the concerned organization that he had been serving, Starbucks Corporation in this case.
Starbuck Corporation is one of the most successful business organizations in the world.
This extreme amount of the success that the company has faced is often credited to the CEO and
the Chairman of the concern, Howard Schultz. The position that is held by Starbucks
Corporation in the present-day industry might highly be attributed to the apt leadership style that
has been depicted by the concerned leader in discussion. The leadership style that is majorly
depicted by the concerned business leader in discussion, Howard Schultz of Starbucks
Corporation is the transformational leadership style (Eisner, 2016). The transformational
leadership style generally refers to the leadership style wherein the concerned leader is observed

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to be working with the concerned team in order to deal with the various matters that might arise
in the identification of the changes that are to be implemented within the organization (Odumeru
& Ogbonna, 2013). The transformational leader is known to be dealing with the various factors
that are related to the creation of the vision that is needed for providing the guidance to the area
of the change that is experienced by the concerned business organization. The transformational
leader is known to be highly responsible in the instances that help in providing the concerned
members of the organizational workforce with the needed inspiration that is needed to bring
about the change that has been detected in order to help in the overall improvement of the
organization (McCleskey, 2014). The transformational leader is also known to be helpful in the
execution of the needed change by collaborating with the concerned members of the concerned
business organization, the Starbucks Corporation in this case (Leavy, 2016). The leader in
discussion, Howard Schultz of Starbucks Corporation is also known for the implementation and
the strict adherence to the various ethical practices in the concerned business. This might have
helped the concerned business organization, Starbucks Corporation, to secure the position in the
market that it enjoys in the recent times.
Howard Schultz, born in the year 1953, is one of the most famous businessmen in
America. The eminent businessman was primarily appointed as the CEO of Starbucks
Corporation for the duration of 4 years since 1986 to the year 2000 and was re-elected for the
same post for a longer duration of 10 years starting from the year 2008 to the year 2017 (DuBrin,
2016). The organizational leader was appointed as the executive chairman of the well-known
American company dealing in coffee and a chain of coffeehouses, Starbucks Corporation from
the year 2017 to the year of 2018. The eminent leader had announced his retirement from the
post of the executive chairman of the concerned company, Starbucks Corporation that is to be