The death of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s Steve Jobshas brought a lot of talk about the characteristics of the ideal chief executive officer.
One school of thought holds that successful CEOs are team players, good listeners and humble. In the book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins called such people “Level 5” leaders.
Yet Jobs and other superstars such as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg aren’t generally seen in those terms. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Bezos was described as “not always a ‘nice’CEO,” but rather as one who “can inspire and cajole but also irritate and berate.”
So which is the right model: The humble team player or the arrogant tyrant?
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