MR. Steve Paul Jobs Founder of the Apple Company Introduction ; Steve Jobs is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and was listed as Fortune Magazine’s Number One most powerful businessman of 2007 out of twenty-five other top businessmen. He is the co-founder‚ chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios until it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Steve Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company’s largest shareholder and a member
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Made millions of dollars from the companies. Are you thinking of Bill Gates or Tom Cook? Well I’m talking about Steve Jobs. Although Steve Jobs did drop out of college he did very well in life and created a company that became number one on the Exxonmobil charts with the title of The Most Valuable Company in the USA (“Steve Jobs”). Steve Jobs was born on February 24th 1955. He was born in San Francisco and he was also adopted by the Jobs family. His biological parents are Joanne Carole Schieble‚ and
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released a highly stable operating system in 1999‚ and updates following 1999. Apple had one of its critical points in history in 1999 when it introduced the iBook. This completed their “product matrix”‚ a simplified product mix strategy formulated by Jobs. This move allowed Apple to have a desktop and a portable computer in both the professional and the consumer segments. The matrix is as follows: | Professional Segment | Consumer Segment | Desktop | G3 | iMac | Portable | PowerBook | iBook
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STEVE JOBS The impact that his leadership has had on the development of Apple By Marcela Ostap 11010351 After reading the article ’ ’The real Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs ’ ’ by Walter Issacson I have made a conclusion that Steve Jobs was using transformational leadership . Transformational leaders exhibit strong set of internal values-effective at motivating followers
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Analytic profile of a Leader - Steve Jobs Introduction Steve Jobs was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco. He was a college drop out and was not quite sure about his ambitions in life. In fact‚ in young days‚ he became a hippie‚ and visited India‚ in a quest to attain nirvana. I believe his transformation‚ from a hippie to a CEO‚ is an intriguing part of his life’s journey as he co-founded‚ and later became CEO of‚ Apple Inc.‚ a leading consumer electronics manufacturer in the
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Bill Gates Speech at Harvard President Bok‚ former President Rudenstine‚ incoming President Faust‚ members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers‚ members of the faculty‚ parents‚ and especially‚ the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad‚ I always told you I’d come back and get my degree." I want to thank Harvard for this honour. I’ll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. I applaud the graduates
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1. Five elements of leadership that applies to Steve Jobs leading Apple a) Leaders-follower >Effective leader influences follower and their followers influence them. Effective followers share their idea and as a leader‚ they need to listen to others and implement their ideas to be effective. Apple is creating something that they like and what they think the customers will like as well‚ so Apple keep on innovating new products for it’s customers. b) Influence >Influencing is the process of
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contents Introduction 2 Steve Jobs: often called Silicon valley pioneer and the author of unique leadership ideas 3 Brand fanaticism and radical customer devotion 4 Jobsí transformational leadership 5 Perfectionism‚ egoism and creating ëkilling productsí 5 Trust in success and the chosen strategy 7 Summary 7 Jobsí leadership ideas within hospitality industry 8 Conclusion 11 1 Leadership: Steve Jobs The aim of the work is to consider the leadership style of the Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs through the analysis
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Case Analysis on Steve Jobs - Praneeth Konduri (srk591) Who is Steve Jobs? Steve Jobs‚ co-founder of Apple Computer‚ is considered an inventor in the modern era of computers and mobile phones. He is regarded as the person who ran Apple computers. He made the company so successful that it became the most valuable company in the history by 2012 (a while after his demise) (Forbes‚ 2012). He used strong leadership traits to achieve this success. The organizational structure in the company was very top-down
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Family background Steve Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955‚ in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student (and his biological father is said to be a political science or mathematics professor‚ maybe of Middle-Western descent -but this has never been confirmed). Back in the 50s‚ it was unconceivable for such a young woman to raise a child on her own‚ so she decided to put her little baby boy up for adoption. But she insisted that the adoptive parents had to
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