Assignment
Read the mini case "Can You Follow an Icon and Succeed? Apple and Tim Cook after Steve Jobs and answer to the followings" provide an written paper, minimum of four pages (and at least six peer-reviewed resources in support of your arguments) and answer the following questions:
A. Evaluate a CEO's job, and what makes a CEO's job so complex? Use the challenges Tim Cook faces as Steve Jobs' successor to provide examples that support your answer.
B. Tim Cook came from Apple's internal managerial labor market to succeed Steve Jobs. According to your analysis, do you think that using the internal managerial labor market is the best approach to follow when replacing S. Jobs?
a. Use materials in the chapter regarding the internal and external managerial labor markets to explain your answer.
C. Given their different leadership styles of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, describe the differences you found in Apple's culture under Tim Cook's leadership compared to the culture in Apple when Steve Jobs was CEO.
D. Using the information in this Mini-Case as well as you found additional materials through your searches, how do you evaluate Tim Cook as a CEO?
a. Is he an effective strategic leader or not? Use examples from the chapter's discussion of "Key Strategic Leadership Actions" to justify your answer to this question.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.