Reference no: EM133089889

Describe some of the traits that characterize visionary leaders.

In your response, you can refer to Steve Jobs or to a different visionary.

Tim Cook was left with one of the hardest acts to follow in the history of business when he succeeded Steve Jobs as Apple's chief executive in August 2011. Just six weeks after Mr Cook's appointment, Mr Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer, with many fearing Apple would go into decline - the vision and genius that had inspired the company's revival dying with him. "I know this sounds probably bizarre at this point," Mr Cook told the Washington Post earlier this month, "but I had convinced myself that he would bounce." Instead, in the five years since, Mr Cook has slowly had to define his own Apple. It has become a company in some ways more open and approachable, even as its valuation surged, at one point, to new all-time highs for any company in the world. "I think you could make the argument that Tim Cook was the perfect man for the job at the point he took over," says a leadership analyst. "The company went from a small player in a massive market [of mobile phones] to a massive player. That required a very different skill set to an entrepreneurial visionary.