For as long as I can remember, I have been intrigued with how leaders lead. While earning a BA and MIA at Columbia University, an MBA at New York University, and a DM at Colorado Technical University, I read the autobiographies and biographies of numerous leaders in politics and business. As a research associate at PaineWebber (now part of UBS) and Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JP Morgan Chase) and Brundage, Story & Rose (now part of Bessemer Trust) and a financial analyst at IBM, I explored firsthand how leaders led in the technology industry. As an associate professor at Colorado Technical University, I studied the shortcomings of leadership during the financial crisis of 2008. This book evolved from those experiences and my doctoral dissertation on the characteristics of leadership.
This book is directed toward practitioners, scholars, consultants, and students and its top-level views are likely to be suitable for them. Containing relevant examples, it also can be used as a textbook, supplemented or as a supplement to other material to stimulate additional thinking and emphasize differing views.
The first section of this book contains an examination of the degree to which each characteristic is displayed in Steve Jobs’s leadership. This section also contains sources where evidence can be found related to these characteristics in Steve Jobs’s leadership. The second section of this book contains questions that were considered in developing evidence for the degree to which these characteristics are exhibited in Steve Jobs’s leadership. Sources are provided from which these questions were developed.
Excerpt from: Universal Characteristics in The Leadership of Steve Jobs
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