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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Steve Jobs: A Transformational Leader Steve Job’s is a visionary inventor who is co-founded and CEO of Apple Inc.‚ the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. Before claiming his title as CEO he first got ousted from his company in 1985 and invited back as interim CEO in 1997. In the following decade he survived two near death experiences‚ one securities-law scandal‚ and also conceptualized and ran his product line-up to become the dominant leader in four distinct industries – music‚ movies
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A transformational leader is a person that lays his/her goals out and takes extraordinary measures to accomplish them. Their goals usually focus on the well being of the situation and their people. They strive to change the views of others and convince followers that the ethical behavior is morally correct of the leader’s. An example of an exceptional leader would be Steve Jobs‚ the current CEO/co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs is considered a leading figurehead in both the entertainment and computer
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Nathan Girard 9/27/2011 Is Steve Jobs a Leader or a Manager? John Sculley former CEO of both PepsiCo & Apple states that the differences between leadership and management is; “Leadership is often confused with other things‚ specifically management. Management requires an entirely different set of skills. As Sculley sees it‚ leadership revolves around vision‚ ideas‚ direction‚ and has more to with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation…One can’t lead
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Steve jobs‚ the leader of Apple In most cases‚ whenever people here of Steve Jobs‚ their minds reflect on the Apple company. Actually that is the reality; Steve Jobs is the chairman and the CEO of the Apple Computers Inc.‚ which actually is one of the leading and competent business companies in the world today. He was born in San Francisco‚ and was an adopted son of the Jobs couple that was from California. He founded the Apple in 1976‚ whereby the company has tremendously grown‚ with great achievement
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Steve Jobs Broke Every Leadership Rule. Don’t Try It Yourself. gslusherInteresting‚ but written by someone who‚ apparently‚ has never been a leader of anything. Of course‚ the author is really no worse than the people who writ [...]Frederick E. Allen‚ Forbes StaffI couldn’t agree more that there are no universal rules. I just think that in the wide range of leaders and leadership styles‚ Steve Jobs is an extreme out [...]jrobertOn the contrary‚ there are are indeed universal rules for successful
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_CASE STUDY: STEVE JOBS -- APPLE_ Question 1 EXPLAIN HOW EACH OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF OUR DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP APPLIES TO STEVE JOBS LEADING APPLE? As defined by Mr. Achua; leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change. He defined effective leader to be someone who have the five elements of leadership as mentioned in the above figure. Mr. Steve Jobs has been a good example of being an effective leader for Apple. The five
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Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955 in San Francisco‚ California. He was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s along with engineer‚ inventor‚ and Apple Computer co-founder‚ Steve Wozniak. Young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighbourhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This shaped his interest in the field as he grew up. Jobs’s official biographer‚ Walter Isaacson described him as the "creative entrepreneur whose
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different successful leaders. As we know it‚ leaders are humans just like everyone else. How did they manage to stand out from the crowd? What did they do to achieve great success for an organization? As of all the successful leaders in the world‚ Steve Jobs is one of the successful leaders that managed to achieve great success for an organization. Therefore‚ Steve Jobs is the leader that I personally admire and would like to emulate. According to Gallo (2011‚ p. 4)‚ Jobs was named the best-performing
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Intro Some people say that Steve Jobs was not a nice person. Some people say that he was mean to his employees and had unrealistic expectations. What no one can argue is that Steve Jobs pushed his company to do some amazing things. In the following writing I will briefly discuss Steve Jobs‚ his leadership approach and how he used that to turn Apple into a powerhouse. Steve Jobs Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976‚ was ousted in 1985‚ returned to rescue it
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