What Makes a Leader? At 23 he was worth $1 million, at 24 it was $10 million, by 25 it was over $100 million, and by 30 years of age his board of directors fired him from the company he started. Who was he? Steve Jobs, of course. When he and Steve Wozniak began building computers in his parents’ garage, neither one imagined what the future held: the multinational company Apple Inc. Fortune credited Jobs with changing the world through a series of innovations in personal computers, software development, the music industry, and film animation. Jobs’s leadership style wasn’t always ideal, as he acknowledged. However, Victor Vroom, professor at the Yale School of Management, considers Jobs a transformational leader who championed “higher order values. … [He] caused people to do things they might never have done before” (George, 2006)