There are different types of leadership power; position power and personal power are two types of power. These can be exemplified by examining two different leaders who leveraged the two power types.
The leveraging of this power obviously worked, the chips were delivered on time (Love, 2011). Jobs whilst the CEO of Apple, so had the power to punish for non-delivery. Another example may be seen early in his career, when working at Atari (Love, 2011). Jobs recruited Wazniak to come and help him develop a smaller version of Pong, with Atari paying a substantial bonus for completing the project on time. Jobs was in charge of the negotiations and project, and lied to Wasniack regarding the level of the bonus, which resulted in jobs keeping the majority of the money received from the bonus (Love, 2011). In this case, the source of position power is slightly different, as jobs within charge of the contract and had had the power to choose whether or not to share the bonus equally with Wazniak. This is a different type of position power, where Jobs was effectively utilising his position to benefit itself, to the detriment of his partner.
A third example may be seen when Mobileme was launched, and Jobs decided to fire the project leader after the press criticised the product as being unfinished (Love, 2011). Jobs held a meeting with the…