Question

What type of a leader was Steve Jobs? Was his leadership style effective?

Answer 1

Steve Jobs was a transformational leader. A transformational leader leads the team by facilitating motivation. Transformational leadership style helps fellow team members to motivate each other, increases the level of morality as well as motivation of the followers. It helps set clearer and achievable goals, it encourages the followers to perform better, provides support and recognition which helps the followers to reach their maximum potential. Yes, his leadership style was indeed effective. He was very passionate towards his team members, which lead them to be motivated to accomplish goals set by him. He was a very effective leader.