Leadership style of

Steve Jobs and Jack Ma

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Introduction Leadership Leadership Effectiveness Conclusion
of style and style and
Leadership traits of traits of
Steve Jobs Jack Ma
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Introduction of
Leadership
 Autocratic: decision making is controlled by
the leader

Democratic: guaranteeing the freedom to

give ideas

Transformational: motivate their subordinates

to perform work at a very high level, creating
an atmosphere of trust, commitment to the
organization and its goals
Steve Jobs
Leadership style and traits

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Co-founder of Apple Inc
one of the most influential people in the computer
industry
Autocratic leadership style
• Meticulously detailed
• Like-minded people follow his lead
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Autocratic leadership style
● Not care about thoughts and emotions

● Always requires perfection, does not

acccept any flaws
● Making decisions arbitrarily in second

● No smoking, banned dogs from working

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Autocratic leadership style
The law of silence – the result of Steve Jobs’
authoritarian operating style at Apple: strictly regulates
the absolute confidentiality of all information related
to Apple and customers, competitors. Anyone who
violates whether accidentally or intentionally will be
immediately dismissed
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 Innovation
Stay
Set is about
Ready to persistent
impossibly subtraction
embrace
high
failure
standards
 $100 billion
According to Engadget, in 2007, Apple Inc broke the
$100 billion market capitalization barrier

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6$ to 8$
is the number of the price per share increasing
(2003 to 2006)
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$10 billion (1999)
increase to $50 billion
(2005)
is the Apple’s total stock value
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Jack Ma
Leadership style and traits

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Leader of Alibaba Group
The business marketplace Alibaba and the shopping site
Taobao. Top 33rd of billionare

Alibaba is an e-commerce corporation,

providing electronic, payment services,
shopping search tools
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Democratic leadership style
● Give freedom to employees

● Encourages participation in decision making

● Push other businesses, help society

Transformational leadership style
● To prioritize the culture of Alibaba

● Share in optional package

● Equality and the creation of its own mortgage fund under

the name Ihome
● “Global Conference on Women

and Entrepreneurs”
1,590 RMB
The value of goods traded on
Taobao (2015 fiscal)

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 Conclusion
• Appropriate to the level of each employee
• Create good condition to express ideas
• Empower to take risks
• Depending on the model, corporate culture
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 Credits
● Adem Tahiri. 2019. ‘10 Richest, Most Successful Tech Geniuses’. Investopedia.
Retrieved 18 May 2020 (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-
finance/072715/10-richest-most-successful-tech-geniuses.asp).

● Chris Atkinson. 2019. ‘Jack Ma’s Leadership Approach’. Retrieved 20 May 2020
(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jack-mas-leadership-approach-chris-atkinson).

● Houston, Abby Narishkin, Jack. 2019. ‘Alibaba Cofounder Jack Ma Is the Richest Man
in China — Here’s How He Spends His $38 Billion Net Worth’. Business Insider.
Retrieved 19 May 2020 (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-alibaba-founder-jack-
ma-makes-and-spends-his-billions-2019-11).
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