Steve Jobs the former CEO of Apple is an interesting topic of study within the realm of emotional intelligence leadership due to his questionable leadership styles, innovative mind, and world revolutionizing ideas. Jobs was undoubtedly successful in his career and changed the world with new products and services that improved the quality of life for its’ users. Although Jobs was wildly successful in his ventures, he was not the best emotionally intelligent leader. This can be seen after evaluating Steve Job’s consciousness of others capacities, which is about intentionally working with and influencing individuals and groups to bring about positive change. The first capacity within consciousness of others is displaying empathy and it is defined
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Jobs can be seen on inspiring posters and motivational platforms all over the world. The people around Job’s were inspired by his genius abilities and thoughts of changing the world for the better. His co-workers were able to deal with his lack of empathy and other characteristics because of his inspiring mindset. An example of Job’s inspiring others is when an executive from Disney called Jobs who was their largest shareholder and asked for advice. Jobs simply replied to “dream bigger”. This thought process is also shown in the movie through the three product launches. The products and launches were important but Job’s big dreams about where he was headed are the underlying …show more content…
It is described as following through on commitments and the moral obligations for the benefit of others and the larger purpose. Jobs was not strong in this capacity because of his lack of concern for the group’s morale and his urgency on things being done to perfection. He was a perfectionist and insisted that Apple would be perfect just as thought of events in his mind. An example of this being when Apple was going to launch the mac and the computer was malfunctioning when Jobs wanted it to say hello. His relationships were transactional with employees being expected to deliver exactly what he wanted within his
Jobs can be seen on inspiring posters and motivational platforms all over the world. The people around Job’s were inspired by his genius abilities and thoughts of changing the world for the better. His co-workers were able to deal with his lack of empathy and other characteristics because of his inspiring mindset. An example of Job’s inspiring others is when an executive from Disney called Jobs who was their largest shareholder and asked for advice. Jobs simply replied to “dream bigger”. This thought process is also shown in the movie through the three product launches. The products and launches were important but Job’s big dreams about where he was headed are the underlying …show more content…
It is described as following through on commitments and the moral obligations for the benefit of others and the larger purpose. Jobs was not strong in this capacity because of his lack of concern for the group’s morale and his urgency on things being done to perfection. He was a perfectionist and insisted that Apple would be perfect just as thought of events in his mind. An example of this being when Apple was going to launch the mac and the computer was malfunctioning when Jobs wanted it to say hello. His relationships were transactional with employees being expected to deliver exactly what he wanted within his