Steve Jobs was a distinguished industrial designer‚ American entrepreneur‚ inventor‚ and businessperson. He was born in San Francisco in the year 1960s. Due to his vast skills in managing businesses‚ he was the chief executive officer in Apple Inc.‚ a member of the board in Walt Disney Company and a CEO in the Pixar Company‚ before he died. Additionally‚ he also founded a company known as NeXT that specialized in computers for businesses markets and institutions of high education. Steve was a student
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On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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Bill Gates – Strategic Thinker & Leader? Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to explore the published work on strategic leadership in order to develop an inventory of qualities‚ skills and behaviours that define and explain the concept of strategic leadership. A full review of literature on this topic aims to shed light on this definition. Having discussed and defined this concept the report will then focus on Bill Gates‚ former CEO of the Microsoft Corporation‚ with the aim of
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satisfaction. Several examples have demonstated this‚ most notably Bill Gates and Thomas Edison. Take the case of Bill Gates as an example. When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard‚ he did not care too much about the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973 and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study at the world’s No.1 University. However‚ with size comes power
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Steve Jobs As a Leader By Mohammad Aman Nawabi MBA Student 2013 T ABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................. 2 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 3 LEADERSHIP STYLES ............................................................................................... 3 AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE ......................
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Especially that nowadays we cannot live without luxuries‚ and electronic devices have become an addiction to almost the whole world. Steve jobs‚ a great man who has a great role in moving smart phone to a new era by inventing iphone‚ a smart phone from a completely new kind. he also invented ipad‚ a new kind of tablet computer‚ which was a tough act to follow. Steve Jobs introduced iPhone at first to the world. It blew away their minds. Everyone wants to buy it—despite its expensive price--‚ and every
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Dominique McCraven Public Speaking 9:00am Professor Dr. Dupree Above other companies why do people chose apple products? Topic: Steve Jobs and Apple General Purpose: Explain the distinction of Apple products. Specific Purpose: To inform the general public of the reasons why consumers predominantly prefer to use Apple products rather than competing corporations’ products. Thesis Statement: The Apple Corporation exceeds competing companies in product sales because of the company’s
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Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple Computers‚ the makers of well-designed‚ well-coordinated‚ and good-looking personal home computers. Steve Jobs teamed together with Steve Wozniak to invent one of the first ready-made personal home computer. Steve Jobs was also a smart business who became a multimillionaire before the age of thirty. In 1984‚ Steve Jobs founded NeXT computers. In 1986‚ he bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd and started Pixar Animation Studios. What
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Jobs’ Job The Excellence of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs displays arête in many ways‚ for one‚ being the most prolific icon in the tech industry‚ and two‚ for becoming so while fighting a terminal cancer. Steve Jobs was born on February 24th‚ 1955‚ in San Francisco‚ and was put into adoption. He went to high school in Cupertino‚ California‚ which is not the headquarters of Job’s billion-dollar corporation‚ Apple. While Jobs was in Cupertino‚ he attended after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard
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