Comparative Analysis of Leadership Styles: CEOs and Abraham Lincoln

This essay delves into the multifaceted realm of leadership, offering a comparative analysis of leadership styles. It examines the leadership approaches of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in multinational corporations, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Timothy Donald Cook, Elon Musk, and Sunder Pichai, highlighting their roles in strategic decision-making, problem-solving, and fostering innovation. The analysis then contrasts these contemporary leadership styles with the historical leadership of President Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his ability to manage during times of crisis, inspire vision, and unite people. The essay explores the commonalities and differences in their approaches, providing insights into effective leadership practices across different contexts. Furthermore, the essay emphasizes the importance of leadership in business growth, employee motivation, and achieving targeted goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
CEO OF Multinational Firm............................................................................................................2
President Abraham Lincoln.............................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Leadership plays a prominent role in the business or any organization (Anderson & Sun,
2017). The leadership is seen as the capability of a leader to organize as well as form a group of
individuals that can help them to work together towards the manner, which can help in achieving
a shared vision as well as goal (Arnold et al., 2015). An effective practice of leadership with the
support of top management in the company can encourage the employees towards the
satisfaction of job, motivation as well as positive thinking. Most of the big organizations have
adopted effective leadership style in their workplace (Amanchukwu, Stanley & Ololube, 2015)
In the following part there will detailed analysis of the role, situation as well as leadership
behavior of CEO in multinational companies and President Abraham Lincoln.
CEO OF Multinational Firm
Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of the multinational companies acts as a chief designer
in making the strategy process that is customized to the context of the strategy in an
organization. The role of the CEO is influenced by the magnitude, urgency as well as nature of
revolution, the competences with failing of the company and persona; style of the leader
(Mullins & Schoar, 2016). The main role of CEO is inimitable in different position as that stance
at the topmost of the pyramid of the company charts with all the additional connections the
company that essential to take the prompts from them. Only the superior or owner of the
company can confirm the right individuals spend right amount of time at the correct position to
initiative the group during needed vagaries (Maak, Pless & Voegtlin, 2016). One of the examples
represents the role of leadership in more effective manner; Mark Zuckerberg is one of the

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successful leader works towards problem solving. He saw the market problems and gave
response. Haw many successful people have become in the world .All of them did work towards
the market or any other problems, which is the biggest quality of leadership that helps us to make
success (Queen & Fasipe, 2015). Now days mostly businessman think that how we will start a
business so we will earn higher profit, but they are a slower mover. However, Mark Zuckerberg
saw the problems of communication between the people. He made a communication stage and
enhanced Facebook in all over the world without any TV Ads. So that in present time per month,
2.32 billion people are joining with Facebook. He uses to exchange as well as assistance their
assistants and respite of their other staffs to produce novel and innovative ideas according to
which the final decision is made (Eisner, 2016). He plays a giant interactive part in the overall
community by giving words as well as talking in the conferences. He used to give the relevant
facts to the interlopers through the effective conferences as speeches (Koseoglu, Liu & Shalley,
2017).
Now there is great example of the CEO of Apple & Co., who is Timothy Donald Cook.
He were working with Steve jobs and they gave an idea for the launching the smartphone. He
gave idea that, we will make a smartphone (higher budget), so that mostly people might will pull
towards this smartphone but they had to face with criticism .All his employee were telling that
we will have to face higher losses, but Steve jobs refused to all advices and made his software
ios, which is highly reputed software now a day. Now a day Apple & Co is one of the biggest
companies of the world. According to survey, in present day, 1 lakhs billions people are using
the Apple smartphone that represent their strong leadership style made it worth to the company
(Mishra, 2016).

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A good leader should be also a hardworking man and they should have ability to
convince & motivate the people. Many successful CEO in the world who is the great examples
of leadership among which Sunder Pichai is the CEO of Google company .All people know
them, now I am telling about the SPACEX CO. whose CEO a is Elon Musk and he is biggest
paranoid. And every leader should be paranoid for his work .They wanted to reach to any other
planet in one second. They are working for the efficiency and scarcity. And they want to make
cheapest rockets. Through their effective leadership behavior they did able to achieve their
targeted goal in more effective and efficient manner (Lang, Handley & Jablokow, 2018).
President Abraham Lincoln
Introduction throughout time, it has been said that Abraham Lincoln is one of the most
recognizable leaders in the world. He was prosperous in becoming the President of United State
of America in the year 1860. Being a leader he focused in the dimension of military as well as
political of the war. He constantly there to reunite the state due to the reason of doing such thing
that experienced unprecedented war of power. The capability for being frontrunner in his own
arena is no an innate aptitude. It is the consequence of the amount of the years that being
expended in individual’s lifetime discovering as well as the world. It is in such due course, that
he twitches indulgent his requirements as well as features with also of the associated
contributors. In the mean while he would able to build up the level of confidence as well as faith
amongst his team companions. Being leaders doesn’t represent deed it all by yourself to show
your competence on the job, it is monitoring and supervisory the group as well as guiding them
in the veracious path. Team members works together that can be best when everyone is
supervised in the identical direction (Galli, 2017). A real frontrunner is one who has certain
potentials that are explained in below points:

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 Managing delivering of Vision
 Creating an inspiration vision of future
 Generating an inspirational visualization of forthcoming
 Stirring as well as inspiring the individuals towards such targeted prophecy
 Coaches as well as Builds a team to achieve that vision
Formerly there is a vision, the leader essentially make them persuasive as well as
representative. Abraham Lincoln not only played a vital role as a standard, idealistic, renovator,
connector, as well as organizer during the civil war but similarly in the vent that are precedent
the war. Lincoln has to covenant with the challenges and concerns of southern states succeeding
as well as also o eruption of civil war. In leading the public war Lincoln positively addressed
collection of exact as well as entombs connected matters, when the union conquest was to be
achieved. He has unstated that for the U.S. to be a countless state, it essential to be unified as
well as should be free since the depravities of bondage. He first formed an inspirational vision as
well as aims of the forthcoming. He was efficacious in stirring as well as inspiring the
individuals in attaining that vision. He was very virtuous in handling as well as delivering of the
vision that he targeted, he confirmed that the vision that was in his mind is accomplished
accurately as well as confirmed that the vision with the aims are fruitful. Moreover, Lincoln was
constantly stable on his decision making. As when the conflict was not going well for the north
members of his political party came to Lincoln. There was no any fortuitous to victory as well as
he requisite to give up on bondage. However, Lincoln held stable on his choice as well as twisted
away from their guidance.

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Furthermore, Lincoln had known his faintness as well as forte, the weakness recognize by
Lincoln was his propensity to give the individuals many chances as he was well aware of how to
recompense to his weakness (Vito & Vito, 2015).
Conclusion
From the above analysis it can be concluded that the behavior of leader play a vital role
in their growth and success of any business. Positive leader can enhance the performance of their
employees and other individuals by motivating them towards the targeted goal in more effective
and efficient manner. There are high examples of successful leaders, who have taken various
steps to achieve their targeted goals in effective manner among which one of the successful
leader is Mark Zuckerberg who has taken various initiatives towards motivating and forcing the
employees to achieve targeted goal in more effective manner. Furthermore, Abraham Lincoln
was also considered as successful leaders in their own time. He was the present of United States
of America and did able to lead the whole country in more effective manner through their
leadership style.

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