Steve Jobs is legendary for leadership. As all his colorful story said, he is a great leader with powerful strength. Many people want to imitate him, his actions, his language and most important is people want to copy the way he lead his company. For that, that totally is not a good idea.

He did not obey any pieces in management handbook. They always tells us that leaders should be sincere, considerate, modest and cares your personnel. However, Jobs is not only a dictator but also a leader who exceed his authority. He judge by intuition not data and insult staff often. The good thing is he is adept at judging the chances that is benefit for Apple’s strategy. He is a charismatic leader with execution. Therefore the Apple which lead by Jobs has the fastest decision-making, execute step by step and everybody take their responsibility. His talent and shortage all belong to him, if he live without those shortage, his foresight will not be implement deeply. Thus, even though Steve Jobs is not a nice boss traditionally, workers in Apple still feel heat breaking when he retired. The conclusion is, if you do not have the ability and talent that Steve Jobs have, then do not imitate him blindly. Just identify the distinctive strengths you have and magnify them and lead with them. Then you will be a extraordinary leader.

Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackzenger/2013/08/22/the-big-lesson-about-leadership-from-steve-jobs/