...Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with his school friend Steve Wozniak. He was ousted in 1985 and returned 1997 to save it from bankruptcy and died in October 2011. He transformed Apple into the world’s most valuable company. Steve Jobs was a polarizing figure, a visionary who led Apple from the depths of bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world His personality was integral to his way of doing business. Eccentric leadership style. He was a transformational, innovative and charismatic business leader. He was a Focused, Passionate, intense, petulant, impatient character. Described as a “visionary” He was excellent at communicating his vision to his staff, customers and shareholders. On his return in 1997, the company were producing numerous random products for example different versions of the Macintosh. Several weeks of product review sessions, Jobs intervened. On a whiteboard he drew a 2X2 grid declaring what he felt the company needed. On the two columns of the grid Jobs wrote “Consumer” and “Pro” and along the rows he wrote “desktop” and “portable” he told his team members to focus on 4 great products, one for each of the 4 segments of his grid. All the other ideas and products should be discarded. Jobs took 100 people on a retreat each year. On the last day of the retreat Jobs would stand up and ask the people involved with the retreat to give 10 ideas of what they should do next. This evoked a positive response with people fighting to get their suggestion...
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...standards of right and wrong. Accordingly, Leadership could have come into existents when human being started to reflect on the best way to live. As a result, leadership began with the introduction of style of leadership. This thesis is build based on the agreement of including education on the leadership style and type of leadership on the selected individual that success in corporate business. As an initial step, this thesis sought to characterize and perform case study towards selected individual that success in corporate business and the impact gain by the corporate of committing their leadership. This thesis does set for understanding in deeper on the individual leadership characteristic and their contribution on leadership method. This thesis also proposes an educational approach of including the education of the societal and moral implications of leadership practices within a corporate in management engineering courses. Management engineering students that encounter leadership style across social sciences and humanities may be better equipped to participate in debates about how leadership style ought to be helping corporate communities. OBJECTIVE The objective of this case study is to gain a deeper understanding of the leadership manifestation that had been presented by the well-known late chief executive officer (CEO) of an American electronics multinational corporation (Apple Inc.), Steve Jobs. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Leadership has been a major part of human relations...
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...3012-Fundamentals of Leadership Dr. Samuel Palmeri December 13, 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Steve Job’s Definition of Leadership Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart Challenges and Opportunities Faced by Steve Job’s Conclusion Reflection Reference page Introduction Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was the biological son of a Syrian political science professor and a speech therapist. They gave him up for adoption and Steve was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. As a child, Steve and his father would work on electronics in the garage. They would take a part and rebuild electronics and mechanical things building confidence and drive in Steve. Steve did not like school that much so he dropped out of college. In 1974, he worked with Atari, but did not stay at the company long. He took a trip to India to find spiritual enlightenment. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. Apple is a company that designs and creates Macintosh laptops and desktop computers that have the OS X operating system. At Apple, Jobs and Wozniak invented revolutionary products such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod, and iTunes. The first products were assembled in a garage. Even though he was successful at Apple, Steve resigned as...
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...work. The results: indisputable. A 'visionary' is how he is most often described in relation to Apple, the company he founded with high school buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976, was effectively fired from in 1985, and then returned to in 1997 with a renewed sense of purpose. And what a triumphant return it was. According the LA Times, the market value of Apple's shares has grown from about $US5 billion in 2000 to $US351 billion today making it one of the biggest publicly listed companies in the US, up there with the likes of Exxon Mobil. Dr Brent Coker from the University of Melbourne's management and marketing faculty describes Jobs as “one of the greatest business strategists of all times”. “There are a lot of people out there claiming to be futurists,” Dr Coker said. “Most of them are keynote speakers or public speakers - it is rare to have a futurist that demonstrated his ability to almost predict the future in a real live business setting.” But Jobs's rise to the top was hardly textbook perfect. A university dropout, he worked at Atari and travelled through India before seeing a commercial opportunity in the computer (the original Apple I) Wozniak had built to impress some friends. They started the company with an investment of $US1300 of their own money, making it into the Fortune 500 list by 1983. That year Jobs recruited former Pepsi executive John Sculley to take the chief executive position, only to be stripped of all his power by him in 1985. According to...
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...The leadership style adopted by Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was an unconventional leader and his management style was complex. He was an autocratic and missionary leader driven by beliefs and a vision of creating an enduring company with a motivated workforce that created great products and would be remembered by future generations. In relation to Apple, many people refer to Steve Jobs as a Visionary. Steve Jobs was a willful and driven leader and he demanded excellence from his staff and was known for his blunt delivery of criticism. He was focused and committed, confident to take risks and combined with his sheer genius, he had the charisma and an ability to successfully communicate his vision and, thus, gain the support of employees, customers and investors. His criteria for creating products and services were simplicity, functionality, and consumer appeal before profit, cost and sales volume. Also, he had an eye for detail, understood the power of cultural influence and was innovative and a perfectionist. Steve Jobs would not be described as warm and fuzzy. He wasn't known for his consultative or consensus building approach and was not a giving, caring organizational mentor. He didn’t mince his words and had a habit of distorting reality to fit his purposes which caused people to question his credibility. Steve Jobs had an abrasive personality and was not known for his interpersonal skills. He was impatient, stubborn, rude and hypercritical. Also, he had a whimsical...
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...150 100 Combine the Humanities with The Sciences Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish 150 100 HBR.ORG ILLUSTRATION: TREVOR NELSON The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs Six months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. by Walter Isaacson April 2012 Harvard Business Review 93 THE REAL LEADERSHIP LESSONS OF STEVE JOBS “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” —Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997 HIS SAGA IS the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business. In the months since my biography of Jobs came out, countless commentators have tried to draw management lessons from it. Some of those readers have been insightful, but I think...
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...Steve Jobs' Leadership Legacy: Focus On Strategy By Margaret Heffernan Poor Steve Jobs. Not only has ill health forced him to relinquish the job and the company that he loves, but he must also suffer the Twain-like horror of reading his own obituaries. No doubt many will laud his design sense, his presentational skills, cool advertising, obsession with details and maniacal oversight. But many business leaders have had these talents and few have fared as well. What Jobs has had, par excellence, has been something less romantic but extremely rare: strategic coherence. Few CEOs these days have a strategy. That's the conclusion Richard Rummelt draws in his new book Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. But once of Jobs' many strengths has been his profound understanding of, and sensitivity to, externalities. When Apple roared back to market dominance and outstanding profitability in 2005, it wasn't just because iPods were cool. It was because, at the beginning of the century, Jobs had put in place a product plan aimed at one great external future event: the moment that broadband penetration in the U.S. exceeded 50%. Once that occurred, digital entertainment became technically and commercially feasible. In the period 2002-5, Jobs assembled and owned all the components he'd need to take advantage of the new broadband market: WebObjects, Safari, iTunes, QuickTime and the MacOS itself. He also threw a vast proportion of the company's cash at a retail strategy that experts said was extravagant...
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...Steve Jobs and Leadership “Think Different” Coll 148/Critical Thinking & Problem Solving October 6th, 2013 I. Introduction A. Steve Jobs and what it takes to be a great leader B. Who is Steve Jobs? C. What made Steve Jobs a great leader? How can I take his leadership style and qualities and be a great leader too? D. Define leadership qualities in general and relate those to Steve Jobs own leadership style and present what it takes to be a great leader in my chosen profession. II. Chosen field of Study: Network Communications and Administration A. Why I chose Network Communications. B. Expected graduation completion: 2 ½ years. III. Who is Steve Jobs? A. Why I chose Steve Jobs as my leader in the IT field. B. Steve Jobs mark on IT 1. Apple computers 2. Pixar IV. Characteristics of an effective leader A. Having the courage to act on vision B. Quieting doubts and worry C. Knowing how to influence and motivate others D. Holding oneself accountable, teach employees the same E. Train employees, provide information and help set stage for success F. Able to delegate important tasks to capable people G. Do the right thing when no one is looking H. Set the example to follow. Have the drive to do your best. I. Hire the best and brightest and give them the tools to do their jobs. V Steve Jobs effective leadership qualities A. Had the vision to make a computer for everyone...
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...Transformational Leadership Theory 2.3 Transactional Leadership Theory 3.0 Application of Tranformational Theory to Steve Jobs’s Leadership 4.0 Application of Transactional Theory to Steve Jobs’s leadership 5.0 Application of Hershey Blanchard Theory to Steve Jobs' leadership 6.0 Application of Path-Goal Theory to Steve Jobs’s leadership 7.0 Steve Jobs as a Charismatic leader 8.0 Uniqueness of Steve Jobs leadership 9.0 Conclusion Executive Summary Leadership style has an impact on all aspects of business in organization. Therefore over the last four decades, leadership scholars and practicing managers have been focused to identify those behaviors that affects a leader’s effectiveness in their leadership( Avolio, alumbwa, & Weber, 2009) The definition of ‘leadership’ and why it is important is vary to different people. (Den Hartog & Koopman, 2008) defined leadership as whether the leader’s abilities, personality traits, influence relationships, cognitive versus emotional orientation, individual versus group orientation, and/or appeal to self versus collective interests . The objective of this assignment is to analyze and comparing Steve Jobs leadership style and qualities with the selected leadership theories. This study identified the characteristics of Steve Jobs leadership which were matched with a combination of leadership theories of Path-Goal Theory, Hersey-Blanchard Situational Theory, Transformational Leadership Theory and...
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...Business Leadership EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, the man who saved a company that was literally a fiscal quarter away from bankruptcy and proceeded to grow it into the largest company in the world by market capital the company ‘The Apple’. Steve Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. Good leadership is major, particularly in today’s competitive global economy, and can make the difference between the success and the failure of the organization. As per the sentence Steve jobs is the concrete example of a lifetime natural successful leader, evidence is the Apple’s success. Apple’s market capitalization is over $300 Billion (Elmer-Dewitt, 2011) making it the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world, surpassing even giant (and rival) Microsoft. Steve Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was different from many other corporate leaders in that he always knew what he wanted. When he returned to Apple after his decade-long banishment starting in the mid-80′s, the company was on the margin of bankruptcy. He actually wrote some of the...
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...1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. Steve also co-founded and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney's board of directors. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. With Steve Job , Apple commands a dedicated consumer base and is know for its premium brands like iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes etc . Apples success is known under Steve Jobs Leadership...
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...Chinese Culture University Department of International Business International Business Administration Leadership Style of Steve Jobs Professor: Ph.D. Johnny Shaw /………………/ Group members: Tumennast (A2123706) Maria (A2125229) Thelma (A2506486) Enkhgerel (A2123731) Steve Job’s Leadership Style 1. Leadership, transformational leadership style. 2.1. Definition of a Leadership Leadership itself can be defined by many alternatives: Leadership has been described as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task" Some understand a leader simply as somebody whom people follow, or as somebody who guides or directs other, while others define leadership as "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal” . Who is a leader? At the most basic level, a leader is someone who leads other. But what makes someone a leader? What is it about being a leader that some people understand and use to their advantage? What can you do to be a leader? Here's what you need to know and do. A leader is a person who has a vision, a drive and a commitment to achieve that vision, and the skills to make it happen. Let's look at each of those in detail. The Leader's Vision A leader has a vision. Leaders see a problem that needs to be fixed or a goal that needs to be achieved. It may be something that no one else sees or simply something that no one else wants to tackle...
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...Introduction The leadership plays a vital role in the success of any organization. In the telecom industry, leadership plays a vital role for transformation and trust among the customers and the company (Dowling, S. 2010). The main role is the leadership styles of various leaders in the mobile industry. This paper discusses and analyses the leadership style of Steve Jobs at Apple Incl. Apple is known for high innovation and employee satisfaction. The company is main contributor to the design aspect of the modern computer and smart-phone industry. The main contributor to the same is Steve Jobs. Steve through transformational leadership and through people oriented attitude created the Apple Inc. The company is known for simplicity and high performance devices (Dowling, S. 2010). The company faced various challenges from the competitors at its times, but the leadership style of Steve Jobs, helped the company to survive and grow in aspect of innovation and revenues. The company is known for Mac computers, iPhones, iPods and iTunes for high performance and simple design. In all aspect the founder Steve Jobs is considered as the father of innovation at Apple Inc (Dowling, S. 2010). This paper tries to understand the strategy taken by Steve during his reign at Apple Inc and the ways suggested by him to make company as a world leader in its foray. As per management gurus there are seven leadership styles, but the most important is the transformational leadership style. It helps the...
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...Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLES OF CARLY FIORINA AND STEVE JOBS 1 Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Group 1 Management 4314 MGT4314 Submitted to Dr. Stephanie Solansky Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Carly Fiorina took a leadership position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard for about 6 years. She brought to Hewlett-Packard (HP) nearly twenty years of experience and expertise in marketing and sales that she acquired with AT&T and Lucent. However, she failed to execute HP's strategy and deliver improvements in the company's profits and stock price. She was asked by Hewlett-Packard's board of directors to resign due to the lack of the leadership skills needed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities (Hewlett-Packard, 2007). Fiorina's mistakes in leading HP are an illustration that leadership effectiveness is dependent on situation and other environmental influences, 2 and not only the traits of the leader. In contrast to Fiorina’s leadership failure, a success story unfolded at Apple Computers where a leader practically saved the company. Management guru Jim Collins calls him the "Beethoven of business," Wall Street loves him, and even Bill Gates became more of a partner to him after once being his nemesis. This powerful man is Steve Jobs, cofounder and current chief executive officer of Apple Computer. Much has been made of Jobs'...
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...profiles of two visionaries: bill gates and Steve jobs Prepared for: Rumana Afrose Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared by: Md. Taijul Islam ID: 2009-2-10-217 Subject Code: MGT 101Section: 09 | Date of Submission: November 04, 2013 Table of content: Introduction In this assignment contrasting leadership style of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs has been analyzed and main features of the style have been described. The impact of their leadership style individual, team and organizational performance has also been explained. Various global leaders have different leadership style depending on the size and nature of the organization. The two global leaders known for their achievements in their field are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Their leadership style has contrasting aspects as well as few similarities. Profile of Steve jobs: * Name: Steve Jobs * Full Name: Steven Paul Jobs * Aka: Steve Jobs * Aka: Steven Jobs * Birth date: Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. * Education: Reed College, Homestead High School * Occupation: Entrepreneur, Inventor 1 Apr 1976: Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Apr 1989: Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine Jul 1997: Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board of directors after a disastrous quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place and installs...
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