Fm Presentation

Steve Jobs

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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”

A Report on Leadership

At

IBS Business School Mumbai

- By

Deepa Makhija (14BSP1847)

Vatsal Shah (14BSP2203)

Aditya Singhal (14BSP0084)

Soumyadeep (14BSP1491)

Gaurav Asthana (14BSP0478)

Section A

1st September 2014

Student Declaration

I student and editor of Leadership report group of section A, declare that this report contains only work completed by myself except for information obtained in a legitimate way from literature, company or university sources. All information from these other sources has been duly referenced and acknowledged in accordance with the IBS Business School Mumbai.

None of the content will be used for commercial publications.

Summary

Leadership as a term could be defined as an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes. In the long history of leadership development practices, there are various theories proposed to try to explain and guild the leadership behaviors such as the trait theories, Behavioral and style theories and Situational and contingency theories, below we will try to apply some theories with linkage with leadership practices of Steve Jobs.

Trait leadership theory, together with attitudinal and situational leadership theories are considered as the three basic approaches in leadership theories (Hersey, Blanchard & Johnson 2001). In the trait leadership, the earliest approach in the history of leadership theory development, theorists have sought to understand leadership by examining the characteristics or traits of a leader (Huber 2006, p.10). Bennis (1994, p.39) proposed that there are five ingredients of leadership (guiding vision, passion, integrity, curiosity and daring) and by possessing which one could be a...