[calinet6]

No, because personal integrity is a fairly unimportant concept to leadership, besides being a made-up trait that has almost no meaning.

Leadership is about the ability to understand and manipulate reality. To do that, you need to know about systems, psychology, variation, and knowledge. None of the rest matters. People didn't have to like Jobs, nor even look to him for integrity. Rather they trusted him because he was effective at moving a whole organizational system in one direction toward an incredible result.

It's not integrity that matters—but reality. Are you bringing the company, through your model of reality, closer to a result? If not, your model is wrong, not your personality.

[edshiro]

Why is this downvoted? It brings a very interesting (maybe controversial for some) perspective on leadership.

We should ask ourselves if people who we perceive as leaders are indeed capable of and actively manipulating reality?

I'd like calinet6 to elabore a lot more on his/her points.

[calinet6]

Thanks. It's difficult to maintain composure in the face of almost comical wrongness throughout the business world, and saying things like that tends to get you shunned. My fault, I need to improve my tact.

I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13441946

Basically, the Pixar crew followed W. Edwards Deming's model of organizations, which is one fairly accurate and useful model. By doing that they were able to bring all the pieces together and lead. Heck, Catmull even wrote a book about it, detailing how he thought about managing and leading a company that works for creative minds. But I guess the important part is his integrity and hiring abilities. :)