MBA 550: Leading in Organizations - Steve Jobs' Leadership Analysis

This essay explores the leadership skills of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., and his approach to leading in an organization. It highlights his emphasis on creativity, innovation, and effective leadership through empowering team members in the decision-making process. The essay contrasts Jobs' leadership style with autocratic approaches, emphasizing his focus on vision articulation and fostering a culture of innovation rather than solely pursuing sales statistics. The creative process, including problem recognition, immersion, incubation, evaluation, and implementation, is examined in the context of Jobs' leadership at Apple. The essay concludes by referencing sources that support the analysis of Steve Jobs' leadership and its impact on organizational success.

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Steps of framing creative process:.............................................................................................3
Skills of Steve Jobs of Apple Inc:..............................................................................................3
References:.................................................................................................................................5
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Steps of framing creative process:
Steve Jobs is one of the famous American business magnet and entrepreneur and the
co-founder of Apple. Being one of the famous entrepreneurs around the world, Steve Jobs
was extreme proficient in leading the organisation. Being the most creative and innovative
entrepreneurs around the world, Steve Jobs has cultivated his creativity in a very systematic
manner. Pursuing diverse interest of the staffs was one of the aspects of his leadership. Steve
Jobs generally followed effective leadership and allowed the staffs in the decision making
process, which according to him is the best way of generating positive attention among team
members (Heracleous & Klaering, 2014).
On the other hand, the ineffective leaders of contemporary times generally follows
autocratic leadership style and take the decision by their own without acknowledging the
values and perception of the team members. The way, through which Steve Jobs used to
distribute his power in terms of leading the people, was really admirable. He has articulated
his vision with his fellow team members and encourages them to work proficiently towards
the same vision. This is reason, for which Apple has become the technological giant around
the world. One of the greatest aspects of the leadership style of Steve Job is that he didn’t
confined himself into making huge statistics of sales. Rather, he put consistent effort in the
way of initiating innovation and creativity which is the key of producing innovative products
or services (Rauf, 2014). The way of attaining creativity by Steve Jobs was different from
that of the non-effective leaders. In-spite of distributing the power, the leaders in the
contemporary times are more likely to use the power by their own, which create an
environment of mistrust in the organisation and generate dissatisfaction among the staffs.
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Skills of Steve Jobs of Apple Inc:
Creativity is the cognitive process of generating brainstorming ideas and aligns them
in the business process. Being one of the most prominent leaders around the world, Steve
Jobs was extremely proficient in generating innovation and creativity in the organisation.
Problem recognition is the first step of creative process, in which the leaders assess the need
of generating innovative ideas for the sake of mitigating any kind of impending issue. In this
step, Steve Jobs was extremely curious in order to encounter any kind of impending issues
(Northouse, 2017). "Think Different” manifesto is the major aspect of Steve Jobs, through
which he has put significant effort in the way of generating creativity in Apple. Immersion is
the second step of creative process, in which the leaders collects all the necessary background
information. This step, Steve Jobs has guarded those people very who are highly creative.
Incubation is the third step of creative process, in which the leaders put the problem properly
by assessing the need of external environment. In this step, Steve Jobs had paved the way for
the problem solvers to make necessary amendments for the sake of producing high quality of
products (Forbes.com. 2019). Evaluation is the fourth step of creative process which
comprises of defining the most innovative ideas which can help in generating long term
success from business. The Implementation is the last step of creative process, in which Steve
Jobs Steve Jobs had exerted his control over a range of new aspect in the business.
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References:
Forbes.com. (2019). The 3 Things That Steve Jobs Taught Us About Creative Leadership.
[online] Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/avidan/2011/10/31/the-3-things-that-
steve-jobs-taught-us-about-creative-leadership/#546f635e319d [Accessed 23 Sep. 2019].
Heracleous, L., & Klaering, L. A. (2014). Charismatic leadership and rhetorical competence:
An analysis of Steve Jobs’s rhetoric. Group & Organization Management, 39(2), 131-161.
Northouse, P. G. (2017). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. Sage
Publications.
Rauf, M. A. (2014). Antecedents and consequences of leadership styles: Evidence from
successful entrepreneurial ventures. International Journal of Innovation, Management and
Technology, 5(5), 378-385.
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