Strategic Leadership: A Case Study of Steve Jobs and Apple Inc.

Strategic Leadership

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1- CASE STUDY.................................................................................................................1
Organisational background and business leader..........................................................................1
Meaning of strategic leadership and its importance to Apple.....................................................2
Approaches of leadership............................................................................................................2
Critical evaluation of the role of leader in developing strategy...................................................3
Critical evaluation of leadership influence and power................................................................3
Critical evaluation of importance of ethics, values and corporate social responsibilities...........4
Critique leadership trends and concepts......................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals:.....................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the concept of influencing others to achieve a common goal and objectives.
A leader is the person who attract others toward his/her idea and motivate them to encourage
them t participate effectively to achieve their set goals. In context of organisations, leaders will
help to encourage employees to perform their task with their full potentiality to helps the
company to enhance their productivity and profitability (Daniëls, Hondeghem and Dochy, 2019).
The following report is divided in three different task, first task will cover the case study, second
task is related to essay and the third task is PPT presentation.
TASK 1- CASE STUDY
Organisational background and business leader
Steve Jobs is world famous Leader with effective leadership and entrepreneur qualities.
He was the co-founder of world famous company Apple. He also has majority shares of The
Walt Disney Company. He is also the CEO, founder and chairman of NeXT. He was born in
1955 and died in the year 2011 at the age of 56. He has various skills who helped him to become
world famous leader and effective entrepreneur. Most of the people are influenced by his ideas
and behaviour (Cortellazzo, Bruni and Zampieri, 2019). He always encourages his employees to
perform well for the growth of both organisation as well as for employees’ growth. He analyses
the things well and collect information about various other companies so that he can get to know
that which company can grow well in future. This will help him to invest only in those
companies who can gave him high returns on his investment. He also helped the companies to
mitigate their issues by his innovative and creative ideas. Hence, this is the reason most of the
companies are ready to sold their most of the shares to Steve Jobs.
Apple Inc. is the company for which Steve Jobs gets popular as a leader and entrepreneur. This
company was founded in the year 1976 and it is headquartered in California, USA. In the year
1976, this company introduces its first computer. At this time the name of the company was
Apple Computer Company. The company grows rapidly due to its innovation and the speed at
which it adopt the innovation for its computers.
The main reason for choosing the Steve Jobs and his company “Apple” is that the Ideology
and features of Steve Jobs can taught many effective learnings about the leadership and sharp
mind innovator.
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