Case Study The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

Q1-Describe Job’s leadership style using the (Blake Mouton) managerial grid? A1- Blake and mouton’s two-dimensional theory recognise that leaders tend to focus on either product or people (or both). I would consider Steve Jobs leadership style to be placed in the managerial grid as â€Å"Produce or Perish† this is due to Steve Jobs always being production focused, from the case with can see that Steve Jobs only cared about the end results and didn’t care about his employees as people see his â€Å"Reality Distortion Field as a euphemism for bullying and lying† because he would tended to scream and swear at his employees to get the job done â€Å"He would shout at a meeting, ‘You ***, you never do anything right. However Steve Jobs leadership style could be classified as â€Å"Team† in the managerial grid because as his employees found him to be inspirational as he made his employees perform extraordinary feats â€Å"those who worked with him admitted that the trait, infuriating as it might be, led them to perform extraordinary feats†. Overall I would say Steve Jobs would be placed in between â€Å"Produce or perish† and â€Å"Team† because he might be mainly production focused but Steve Jobs did care about his employees because he was able to inspire his staffs, also Steve Jobs gained more loyal staff then those CEOs who took the gentleman approach. Q2 (A) - Assess Job’s leadership effectiveness as assessed by Apple’s shareholders? 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