Trait Theory Case Study: Steve Jobs

3.1 Case study

The following case has been taken from the Walter Isaacson (2011), a book on Steve jobs.

After jobs corrected the company, jobs started taking his “top 100” individuals on a withdraw every year. On the most recent day, he would remain before a whiteboard and ask, “What are the ten things we ought to be doing next?” People would battle to get their recommendations on the rundown. Jobs would record them and after that check off the ones he declared stupid. After much moving, the group would concoct a list of 10. At that point Jobs would slice the base seven and publish, "We can just do three."

Part of Jobs' impulse to take liability for what he called "the entire gadget" originated from his identity, which was extremely regulating.

As stated in the the literature review leaders and non-leaders are distinguished from each other because of specific traits, such as appearances, intelligences and vales. The traits that Steve Jobs portrayed were independent thinking, courageous and a motivator.

Independent thinkers are said to be good leaders as they trust in their own ability to form judgments, even though others don't think in them or afflict their approach. Without respect to the established rules, Jobs acted upon his own outlined ideals and values, setting his own rules. This created an environment of conflict amongst the employees, specifically within the managers. Employees joked saying that any day could be their last day in Apple.

Jobs also exhibited courage as one of the traits as a leader. Courageous leaders are expected to step forward overcoming their fear and move towards the goal. Jobs was aware of Apple heading towards potential bankruptcy when he took over. Even though Jobs had accomplished a lot in Pixar, he was hesitant in taking over Apple. He did not let the negativity get to him, and acted despite of it, embracing the vision and began to create and restructure from the