Leadership

Management is a roll assigned to someone who is able and better trained than the people below him/her and is able to make decision and is more responsible than the workforce. Leadership isn't as official, someone in the workforce can feel as though they could take responsibility to help the group/team reach goals.

The Managerial Grid is based on two behavioural theories:

• Concern for People – This is in which a leader considers the needs of team members, their interests, and areas of personal development when deciding how best to complete a task.
• Concern for Production – This is in which a leader focuses on objectives, organisational efficiency and high productivity when deciding how best to complete a task.

Using the graph to plot leadership ‘concerns for production’ versus ‘concerns for people’, Blake and Mouton defined the following five leadership styles:

Source: http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/apple.html an archive of the Apple founders/inventors.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded apple in 1976 and since have been considered revolutionary in the in the computing industry. they are strong leaders with their approaches to dominate markets. they were able to run successful businesses through out their careers and became multimillionaires through their leadership skills. together they became two of the most influencial inventors and leaders of the home entertainment/computing industry. the article discusses how they were able to overcome many obstacles in order to maintain a reputation for their successes.


Leadership is extremely important within the business environment in order to run businesses smoothly and successfully high up people must be good leaders, knowing their customers and their products well in order to stay afloat in the competitive environment of running a business.