Steve Jobs Employment Background
General and Task Related Traits
Cognitive Traits
Motivation Traits
Steve Jobs Leadership
100
Where Steve Jobs and his friend co-founded Apple Inc.
What is his parent's garage?
100
Traits observable within and outside the context of work
What are general leadership traits?
100
Problem solving and intellectual skills in leaders.
What is cognitive traits?
100
The strong need to control resources.
What is power motive?
100
This trait allows for Jobs to control all aspects of day-to day operations of Apple.
What is internal locus of control?
200
The company Steve Jobs created that was bought by Apple in 1997.
What is Next Computing?
200
Leadership traits associated with task accomplishment
What are task related traits?
200
The problem solving ability of a leader.
What is Cognitive Intelligence?
200
A trait that provides leaders with the ability to bounce back from a setback in continuous effort.
What is tenacity?
200
This trait comes from his love for what he does and his ability to inspire others.
What is enthusiasm?
300
The company that Steve Jobs bought in the 1980s.
What is Pixar?
300
This trait helps leaders be self assured without being overbearing.
What is self-confidence?
300
A trait that allows leaders to arrive at imaginative and original solutions to complex problems.
What is creativity?
300
The propensity to put forth high energy into achieving goals and the persistence in applying the energy.
What is drive?
400
The type of illegal stock practice that got Apple in trouble with the SEC.
What is backdating?
400
This trait adds approachability of a leader?
What is a sense of humor?
400
A trait that requires considerable intuition and common sense.
What is insight?
400
A part of drive, this trait allows leaders to find joy in accomplishment
What is achievement motivation?
400
Jobs is deficient in this task-related personality trait.
What is emotional intelligence?
500
The year Steve Jobs and his partner founder Apple.
What is 1976?
500
When leaders make their behaviors consistent with their intentions, there is a good chance they will have this leadership trait.
What is trustworthiness?
500
The ability to understand the long-range implications of actions and policies.
What is farsightedness?
500
Leaders with this trait use power primarily to achieve organizational goals or vision.
What is social power motive?
500
Arguably Steve Jobs' most important cognitive trait that make his products successful.
What is creativity?