MN5009QA: A Critical Analysis of Steve Jobs' Leadership Style

This presentation provides an analysis of Steve Jobs' leadership style, applying transformational, charismatic, autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire leadership theories. It explores Jobs' key traits, including adaptability, vision, and innovative ability, while also examining his successes, such as his role in the personal computer revolution and Pixar, and failures, like his inability to receive feedback effectively. The analysis concludes with business lessons that can be learned from Steve Jobs, such as the importance of constant innovation and calculated risk-taking. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wealth of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments for students.

Leadership and leading

 INTRODUCTION
 About the chosen leader and Leadership theories
 Self-reflection and learning from leadership module
 What make Steve Jobs a good leader
 Leadership style of the chosen leader
 What traits / characteristics Steve Jobs demonstrate?
 Area of leadership demonstrate and Success and failure of Steve Job
 What can business learn from the Steve Jobs
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
Table of Contents

Leadership is a process of the actions and
operations, emotions and creativity of
mind, soul and body. A leader is that
person who inspires others for the
fulfillment of body, mind, nature and
environmental activities to a specific
purpose in the business, life and career. It
work for( others/self) foundation of
body, mind, attachment, separation,
nature relationship and actions.
INTRODUCTION

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955.
he was adopted by a loving and
encouraging family. At young age
Steve Jobs started to take interest in
engineering and computer as he
inspired by his father's machinist job.
 Transformational leadership
 Charismatic leadership
About the chosen leader and
Leadership theories

Main purpose of this reflection on
leadership is to gain an effective and
better understanding of myself (skills,
values and knowledge), so that I can
learn from my experience and respond
to the new leadership challenges. As we
have studied about the transformational
and charismatic leadership style, so by
these theories we learned various thing
about leadership.
Self-reflection and learning from
leadership module

 Adaptability- It is most subtle quality of Steve Jobs as
he adopt anything which help him in the multiple
situations.
 Have vision- Steve Jobs had and this creative vision
challenged his workers and drove them to act with the
vision as well.
 Act with a sense of urgency- Steve Jobs was known
for acting with a sense of the urgency and it is find out
that it is what gave Steve Jobs his incomparable drive.
What make Steve Jobs a good leader

 Autocratic leadership
 Democratic leadership
 Laissez- fair leadership
Leadership style of the chosen leader

 Steve Jobs was successful as his innovative ability make him enable to
design the perfect product, that attract an immense market demand from
the customers.
 Steve Jobs exhibited an extensive confidence and passion in his life
endeavors, primarily in the entrepreneurship.
 Steve Jobs was possessed the unbelievable imaginations which enabled
him for understanding the customer's needs or requirements.
What traits / characteristics Steve Jobs
demonstrate?

It is analyzed that in transformational leadership, Steve Jobs has best demonstrate as
he is an iconic transformational leader across the world that made it easy to
produce unique things.
Success
 He is most visionary and pioneer of personal computer revolution.
 Steve Jobs was majority shareholder and chairman of the Disney's animation
studio, Pixar.
Failure
 He got failure in providing and receiving the feedback from his staff as he
interrupted and did not listen them.
Area of leadership demonstrate and
Success and failure of Steve Jobs

 Innovate constantly
 Nothing is impossible
 Take calculated risk-
What can business learn from the
Steve Jobs

From the above report it is concluded that Steve Jobs used to follow has own
footstep in organization. However he improved the emotional intelligence
and apply the rules of informational leadership. By this he become enable
to grab every opportunity and innovate creative things. He forced has
employees to produce a different product that can attract customer more.
He was a good leader as he has various good quality of leadership
including adaptability, confidence, innovation, creative thinking and many
more. He got many success and biggest failure in his life that create an
example for the others.
CONCLUSION

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