...Singapore Management University Maters of Science Innovation | Core Module MGMT 661 By Associate Prof. Adel F. Dimian My Definition, Understanding and Response of the Lecture Topic & Discussions. Innovation Strategy Development Part 1&2 When the need of wanting to be different arises, the need to innovate takes a strong hold in one’s mind to bring about new changes that are often challenged in many different styles, manner, methods and modes. To my understanding different types of innovations requires and employs different innovative strategy or strategies. Which in turn determines the growth phase of the organization and its strategic approach and desired outcome of the innovation. Developing an Innovation Strategy Frame Work The Innovative ideas and strategy plans and developments can only take valuable shape and growth with the right leadership and driving force. Therefore with the discussions developed and generated, I have come to an understanding that successful innovation strategy is determined by the true leadership of an innovative leader with an innovative mindset who wants to achieve success for his organization, employees and himself. Instead of being comfortable and clustering around a few achieved strategies, a successful innovative leader begins by setting high targets and aspirations for the organization. Followed by recruiting qualified candidates and instilling tremendous positive energy, spirit and enthusiasm in the work environment. Although...
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...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 CEO in 1985. He founded a hardware and software company called...
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...In this paper, I will be analyzing one the most successful campaigns in the history of advertising. In August ’97, Steve Jobs who had co-founded Apple Computers returned to the Company once again as its chief executive officer. Those were the times Apple was amidst crisis. Among many things that he addressed, the most important was to redefine Apple’s image in the global market. People were not ready to buy computers from a company who might not last a year. Jobs needed to change this image. Therefore the “Think Different” campaign was an attempt to change to consumer’s perspective for the company. With the “Think Different” campaign, the writers wanted to remind both their consumers and their staff, how Apple thinks differently, using rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos and pathos. It also symbolized the return of the genius that was removed from the company. Apple had lost the “creative” touch during his absence therefore it was very essential for him to create a campaign that would remind the consumers what Apple brand was all about. Through the campaign they hoped to gain their cool, hip image back. The writers used reasoning (logos), rhetorical appeal to stimulate audience’s common sense, beliefs and values by honoring revolutionary heroes and rationalizing that creative thinking produces positive change. The writer used pre-existing simple facts that drew conclusions in their favor. The visual elements included a set of historical influential people having...
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...evaluates the likely effectiveness of that style in the U.S. today In determining the leadership style of Sir. Richard Branson one of the most influential, creative and charismatic leaders of business today has admired the business sense and innovative leadership style of Steve Jobs. Oddly enough, both Steve Jobs and Richard Branson both have a flair for business but both have two totally different personalities and leadership styles. It is odd to see the admiration of Steve Jobs peak the curiosity of Richard Branson as they had different ways of doing business and working with people (Branson, 2011). Leadership in the eyes of Richard Branson An article written by Richard Branson in the United Kingdom press media release in the “Telegraph”, he makes a comparison and contrast between he and Steve Jobs. Branson first identifies Steve Jobs as an Autocratic and directive leader from a situational leadership perspective. Richard Branson on the other hand sees himself being more delegative, participative, and selling as he relates to his employees and giving them their room to breathe and to apply skills in performance of their jobs. He believes it to be essential to allow the employees the space to do their jobs. He believes in listening first, taking the information and making sense of it all, then providing feedback (Branson, 2011). Situational Leadership styles In addition, Branson’s situational leadership style can be categorized as both participating and selling....
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...Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, a name synonymous with success and wealth, gave a commencement address to the graduating class of Stanford University in 2005. During his speech he spoke to the new graduates about the obstacles and hardships he faced throughout his life, and how he pushed through it and kept doing what he loved through three personal stories. Most people would look at someone like Steve Jobs and think, “This man has had the perfect life.” Little do they know that even some of the richest and most famous people in the world face hardships in their life. In Steve Jobs’ address to the students at Stanford, he portrayed emotion, credibility, and logic through sharing his life experiences. Steve started out is speech very differently, he came out stating that he dropped out of Reed College after just six months. Stating this to newly graduated students was very bold. It almost showed that you don’t need a college education to become successful, not something college graduates who just spent four years studying rigorously. But he quickly changed the mood of the speech by rewinding to his birth. Where his mother gave him up for adoption even before his birth. She clearly wanted the best for Steve when she only would let him live with a family with college graduates as parents. His mother thought that by giving him to college graduate parents would make him go to college. Yet later she found out that the people that were adopting him were not college graduates. In fact...
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...Steve Jobs Did you know that Steve Jobs was adopted? Steves biological mother wanted steve to have parents that had college degrees, Paul and Clara Jobs adopted Steve, but did not go to college however, promised his biological parents that he would go to college. Steve Jobs was one of the most successful business owners. Steve Jobs meet Steve wozniak, his soon to be apple co-owner, at a summer job at Hewlett-Packard electronics in palo alto. There is where Jobs met Wozniak, Wozniak was currently working on a project now known as the “blue box” it was a calling device to make long distant calls for free, basically cheating the phone system. Once Wozniak was finished jobs sold the “blue box” which later led to a partnership which created apple....
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...which lead to the success of Steve Jobs as a technopreneure. Before looking at the success and failure we will see what does technopreneur means. Technopreneur’s is entrepreneurs who starts their own business using technology, new ideas, originative, enthusiastic, and self-confident and fervent about their work. They are always ready to accept risk, face trials and aim for greater achievement. Technopreneur’s struggle for continual improvement of the economy. Technopreneur’s are ready to accept failure because they view things differently and walks persistently for next challenge. Technopreneur’s intelligence can be seen by the way he/she think, the way he/she moves, and most importantly the self-assurance...
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...Aspects that enable Steve Job to create innovative products are following:- 1. Do what you love:- Since Jobs was a child he love to do works he like because he believes that people with passion can change the world. For him Passion is everything. 2. Grow up in engineer’s neighborhood:- Jobs grown up in Mountain View, California, USA. As a boy, Jobs and his father work on electronics in the family garage. His father shows him how to open and reconstruct electronics. Later this opening and reconstructing become his hobby. Beside this he lives in neighborhood of engineers which also lays a great impact on his life. 3. Simplicity:- Jobs believes in making things simple, effective and prefect. This habit makes him to create new things which are easy and interesting to operate. He believes in quality and perfection. 4. College Life:- During his school life he was serious about his studies. He also worked for big computer company but he was not very serious about his college that is why he was dropped out of college in his early stage of course. Later he was introduced to Sub-Trainee computer club where he learnt making new parts of computer and he was also very interested in fonts which make enable to create his first own designed computer. 5. Taking Risks:- Steve Jobs was a risk-taker. This factor contributed very much to his successful carrier. He was not afraid to grab the challenge and he was always prepared to fail. But his determination to succeed was far greater...
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...ashinsky: I think Apple will change. It will have to change if for no other reason than because it is so much bigger and so much more complex than it was 15 years ago when Steve Jobs came back to the company that he had co-founded. Should it change? Sure. They will have to adapt to a new reality of being big, of having more scrutiny. For example, their secrecy will become more and more difficult over time, and I suspect they will try an intelligent approach to adapting to that difficulty rather than just trying to hold things off as long as possible. Knowledge@Wharton: We'll come back in a bit to the issue of secrecy about which I have a few questions. But for now, why don't we talk about Tim Cook and his leadership style? Do you have a sense of how Cook is putting his stamp on Apple and how he should, in some ways, think differently by not emulating Jobs in everything he does? Lashinsky: One thing that Cook has going for him is that he is not Steve Jobs, and my impression of the man is that he is not confused at all about this. He is extremely different from Jobs in almost every way. He is not an emotional person. He doesn't have a creative or artistic background the way Jobs did. He's passionate about Apple, he's passionate about business, he's passionate about operational excellence. I think eventually he will put his stamp on Apple, in that it will be more professional,...
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...In vocal messages, our tone can change the way our audience perceives a message. The audience can hear the senders emotions and expressions through the sounds of their voice, and can use that for deciding on positive or negative feedback. However, tone functions a bit differently in written communication. In writing, there is no voice, so it's important to accurate express your emotions by describing your emotions. I have used tones before in written communication when dealing with a tech support company. Here's an example: “As you can realize, I am quite upset about this purchase. The item was received dead on arrival, and is damaged to the point that it cannot be used. I used to have a lot of faith in your company before this, however, I'm starting to feel differently abut that faith. Is there anything you can do about...
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...Steve Jobs; leadership Style ------------------------------------------------- Leadership Management Studies Fatima Ali M.Phil (Morning) Steve Jobs; leadership Style ------------------------------------------------- Leadership Management Studies Fatima Ali M.Phil (Morning) Table of Contents Steve Jobs: Change Leader 3 Steve Jobs Biography 3 Leadership Style 4 Autocratic versus participative 5 Entrepreneurial 6 Trait Theory 7 Focus 8 Judgment & Decisiveness 9 Non-conformity 10 Persistence against obstacles; Tenacity 10 Vision 11 Sociability & Inter-Personal Skills 11 Ability to Enlist Cooperation 12 Steve Jobs as a Charismatic World Leader 13 Steve Jobs as a Distant Charismatic Leader 13 Steve Jobs as a Close Charismatic Leader 14 Golden Circle Theory 15 Leadership Grid 16 Fiedler’s Contingency Model 17 Vroom-Jago Contingency Model 19 Steve Jobs and the Path-Goal Theory 20 Leader Member Exchange by a Game Changer 22 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 24 Steve Jobs as Transformational leader 25 There is No “I” in Team 28 Tuckman’s Group Development Model 30 Discussion 31 Conclusion 33 Appendix A 34 References 37 Steve Jobs: Change Leader Steve Jobs Biography Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. He co-founded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976. He was fired from his own company in 1985, but he returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997. By the time he died...
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...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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...------------------------------------------------- The Rise of Apple Inc. If there is any company that thinks differently and believe that they can change the world and make it better that is “Apple Inc.”. As said by Steve job “People who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the people that really do” (Apple, Inc. 1997). Arguably, apple Inc. is one of the most innovative technology companies to emerge in the last three decades. Apple has revolutionized the technological industry in some cases, created the industry. One of its co-founders, Steve Jobs, had an extraordinary vision and turned it into reality (Mickey 2013). “Steve Jobs saw the future and brought it to life long before most people could even see the horizon” and his “passionate belief in the power of technology to transform the way we live ... brought knowledge and power that is reshaping the face of civilization” (Finkle 2010). Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg said, “thanks for showing that what you build can change the world” (Finkle 2010). Apple Inc. is currently one of the most successful and innovative technology companies ever. Haven’t incorporated in 1977 and went public in 1980, around 1996, the world believed that Apple Computer one of the best brand in the world was on its deathbed. The company had fallen out of the top 5 in U.S. sales (Linzmayer, O. W. 2004). The first quarter of 1996 Apple reports of losses upward of $740 million. The remainder of the year was up and down...
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...are he's experienced the most humiliating defeat you can ever imagine. That's because failure is the gateway to success. Here's how it works. When you're young and new to the workforce, you revel in the gifts God gave you or the DNA you were fortunate enough to acquire that sets you apart. Maybe you're a genius, a talented designer, a natural with software, or have the gift of gab. But an interesting thing happens as you progress through your career. You learn that everything isn't about you and your talents. That there's a huge business world with rules you don't understand. That there are lots of gifted people out there, most of whom see things very differently than you. That there's an incredible amount of competition for jobs, for customers, for business, for everything....
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...Apple A Apple’s rise from a sinking computer hard and software making company to success as the world’s largest vendor of personal computers under the visionary and charismatic leadership of co-founder, Steve Jobs. Leadership is a process not a position (Hughes, L. Richard., Ginnett , C. Robert., et al(2013) Leadership: enhancing the lessons of experience, Page 1). This philosophy further suggests that one is not a leader except perhaps in name only, merely because one holds a title or position. Leadership involves something happening as a result of interaction between Leaders and followers. A real life example of how leadership is a process and not a position is the Andes experience where an amateur Uruguayan rugby team was travelling by airplane en route to a game in Chile. They had a plane crash and never arrived at their destination. In order to ensure continual survival for those who were still alive in the snow covered mountains, everyone took upon themselves to work on ways to survive. Some of the basic issues the Andes survivors faced: tension between individual and group goals, dealing with the different needs and personalities of group members, and keeping hope alive in the face of adversity (Book).The Andes experience also gives us an example of informal leaders emerging from a group. Before the flight there was a boy named Parrado who was awkward and shy both athletic and socially. Nonetheless this unlikely hero became the best loved and most respected among the...
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