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1. When someone takes over as a CEO that person has to understand the marketplace, culture, and value among the company. Tim Cook had to become a strategic leader in order for the company to continue to innovate products that help the way people interact in the world, in which he did lead the company to create new products such as the apple watch and air-pods which helped the company get to a market value of over $1 trillion.
2. I think that it was a good choice to use someone from the internal managerial labor market to lead as CEO because of Tim's knowledge and skills that he had from working in the internal management department, he understood the culture and what Apple's vision was and knew what he needed to do nurture the value in the market, his responsible leadership approach has not only developed products that changed the way we live but created an ecosystem that is inclusive in their operations, Apple wouldn't be what it is today if Cook wasn't the CEO so he is successful.
3. As CEO Jobs was the brains to the company which launched the company into the direction it is at today, it seemed like Jobs didn't care what he needed to do to find a way to create a product he had a vision about which was hasty and cruel to his team but I don't think he realized what he was doing he just cared about making the product that he was passionate about. As CEO Tim Cook took a different approach to being a strategic leader by being less emotional and empowering top team members that he hired to help him formulate products that are functional and useful to their consumers, there is an open relationship between Cook and his team which builds an effective team to help make critical choices the company needs to make.
4. I think Tim Cook is an effective strategic leader because he trust the opinions and voices that his team gives him and he helps their ideas come alive which can grow the company, his management style is that of democratic style which builds consensus among his top team members. Under Cook's leadership the Market Cap of Apple grew over $1.7 Trillion the most of any CEO.