...Book Review – Steve Jobs The book “Steve Jobs” by Walter Issacson, just like its explicit and simplistic title, told the story of the life of Steve Jobs – Apple’s founder and CEO. Written in chronological order, readers get to have a close look at Jobs’ life, from the little boy tinkering with electronic components in his parents’ garage to the man in charge of changing the face of computing in the 21st century. Originally given up by his birth parents, Jobs was blessed to have come to the loving and supportive family of Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs emphasizes, time after time, that only they are truly his parents. His childhood is spent working with semi-conductors and electrical parts as California’s Mountainview neighborhood – later on known as Silicon Valley – is the starting point of the newly immersed technology wave. From an early age, Jobs has showed himself to be determined to get what he wants, one example is by directly calling Bill Hewlett – cofounder of Hewlett and Packard – to ask for a component part needed to build his frequency counter. The Valley is also the place that witness the materialization of the fateful friendship between Jobs and Wozniak. At college age, Jobs develops an interest in zen and enrolls in Reed College - a liberal art university in Oregon. This period refines Jobs’ inner awareness and shapes his disposition to be the facilitator of technology and art, therefore sets him apart from competitors down the road. The idea for Apple Computer budded...
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...Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare Pirates of Silicon Valley Raghunandan Prashant Bokare Pune University raghunandan.bokare@gmail.com October 16, 2014 The Starcast Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The story of Crazy Ones Martyn Burke - The Director The Starcast Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The story of Crazy Ones Martyn Burke - The Director Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs The Starcast Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The story of Crazy Ones Martyn Burke - The Director Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak The Starcast Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The story of Crazy Ones Martyn Burke - The Director Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak Anthony Michel Hall - Bill Gates Good artists copy, Great artists steal - Picasso Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The men who thought different. Jobs had vision. Good artists copy, Great artists steal - Picasso Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The men who thought different. Jobs had vision. Wozniak had skills. Good artists copy, Great artists steal - Picasso Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The men who thought different. Jobs had vision. Wozniak had skills. and Gates had only one mission. Good artists copy, Great artists steal - Picasso Movie Review Raghunandan Prashant Bokare The men who thought different. Jobs had vision. Wozniak had skills. and Gates had only one mission. Any lessons...
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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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...2011) Being an entrepreneur involves taking risk, stepping out on a limb to take a chance on an idea. That is what Steve Jobs; CEO of Apple, did, he took a chance on an idea. Steven Paul Jobs was born in 1955 on February 24, and given up for adoption by his parents. (Isaacson, 2011) Job’s biological parents were two graduate students from the University of Wisconsin, who felt it necessary that their unnamed son be adopted by great parents that had went to college themselves. Jobs biological parents wanted the best for him and that included a great education. (Isaacson, 2011) Although Paul and Clara Jobs were not college or even high school graduates, they promised the biological parents that they would send Steve Jobs to college and started a savings account to fund his education. Steve Jobs interest in technology was shaped by his father and the neighborhood he grew up in. The neighborhood was filled with engineers working on electronics and other gadgets in their garages on weekends. At a young age, Jobs met Stephen Wozniak, one the most important people in his life. Wozniak was an electronics wiz kid. Steve Jobs had his heart set on attending Reed College — an expensive liberal arts college in Oregon. The tuition fees were astronomical for the Job’s family, but they had promised Steve’s biological parents he would get a college education, so they relented. Jobs attend Reed...
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...Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….....2 Part I: the management style of Steve Jobs……………………………………………………….2 Part II: Steve Jobs' presentation style……………………………………………………………..6 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………...8 References……………………………………………………………………………………...…8 Abstract Steven Jobs and “Apple” are excellent examples to demonstrate the correlation between leadership and management. There are lots of different studies on how Steve Jobs, the “Apple’s” chief executive officer (CEO), is leading the company to success. However, the main purpose of our work is not to analyze each of them, but to see what explanation of the company’s success can be found in certain articles, literature reviews and what can be learnt from Jobs’ way of presenting a product. Results of some findings have proved that the management style of the “Apple” CEO makes the company successful. Then, as soon as the mentioned CEO starts to speak, his presentation informs, entertains and inspires, capturing the audience. The simple techniques he uses can be borrowed by anyone for any kind of presentation. The value of this report is in depicting the management and leadership related issues when Steve Jobs is taken as a role model. Introduction “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” * Steve Jobs By now “Apple” is one of the most well known brands in the world. The rising of the company has started in 1997 when Steven Jobs becomes its leader. To start, the first half of this report...
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...Applications 5B Think Different Steve Jobs was one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, due to his innovative thinking and courage that allowed him to take business risks and fight with personal struggles through his life. Like all great entrepreneurs who start their businesses in small locations, Jobs started his in his parents’ garage in 1976. He began creating personal computers around the same time that other competitors were coming out with their own products. As the years progressed, more and more individuals bought Mac computers, allowing the business to expand. By the late 1990s Jobs was taking bigger risks and bigger hits to achieve his great success. In 1997, Steve Jobs was pushed against a financial wall when Macintosh almost fell into bankruptcy. Not knowing what else to do, Steve Jobs took a major risk in asking Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, for a $150 million patent to keep his company from failing. Jobs knew that with this money received from Gates was make or break because if the company failed, Gates would take a major hit as well. From there the company shot back up as the demand for technology increased, allowing the innovative side of Jobs to come out again. He began with the iPod and moved on to the iPhone, excelling in quality of the product every single time. In 2004, Jobs was tested once again, but this time it was more serious; he was diagnosed with cancer. Though he was forced to live with such pain, Jobs never allowed this to affect...
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... Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in a car garage in Los Altos, California on April 1, 1976. They sold 200 computers in a short period of time and decided to take on a third member in order to take the Apple to the next level. A.C Markkula Jr. a retired millionaire from Intel joined Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and launched a product, a simple computer that can be used straight of the box and called it Apple II. They sold more than 100,000 and increased they annual sales to $1billion in less than three years and became the new leader in PC industry by the end of 1980 (Yoffie& Slind, 2008). In 1981, Apple’s revenues was growing but their market shares was dropping when IBM enter the PC industry. By 1982, Apple market shares dropped to 6.2% and during this time Steve Jobs had left Apple and John Sculley was hired. John Sculley was able to raise Apple’ market share from 6.2 percent to 8 percent in three years. When Apple decided to sale their Macs for more than $8,000 in order to stay above their competitors such as IBM their sale strategy back fired with IBM lowered their computer prices, which made Apple’s computers overprices. In 1993 Sculley left, Apple went through a high turn over rate in the Advisor department. Apple hired Micheal Spindler who wanted to rebuilding Apple and lost up to $ 69 million in market shares and was replaced by Gilbert Amelio. Gilbert Amelio decided to bring Steve Jobs back as a part-time...
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...Norton University Major: Leadership Lecturer : Mr. Leng Chamnan Topic: Steve Jobs Leadership Group VIII Members: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ms. Chhum Savorn Mr. Horn Sokchanlida Mr. Thorn Mao Ms. My Pindmoni Mr. Ngan Chhayheang Mr. Theam Ratana Leadership Style Steven Paul Jobs I. Biography 1. Life 2. Career 3. Apple Inc. II. Jobs’ Personality traits III. Jobs’ Leadership Style 1. Components of Jobs’ Leadership 2. The leadership style of Jobs 3. Recruitment Talent 4. Problems faced 5. Seven Principles of Jobs’ Success IV. Critics Desk V. Honors VI. Conclusion VII. Recommendation & Quote VIII. References Content I. Biography (1955-2011) STEVE S-Smart T-Talented E-Effective V-Visionary E- Enthusaistic 1. Life • • • • • • • • • • • Full name: Steven Paul Jobs Birthdate: 24 February 1955 Birth location: San Francisco, California Biological parents: Joanne Simpson and possibly Abdulfattah Jandali, political sciences professor from Syria Adoptive parents: Paul and Clara Jobs, both deceased Siblings: adoptive sister: Patti Jobs (born 1958), biological sister: Mona Simpson (born 1957) Spouse: Laurene Powell (born 1964), married in 1991 Children: Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), with unmarried girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan. Reed (born 1991), Erin Siena (born 1995) and Eve (born 1998) with wife Laurene. Social background: lower middle-class. Father was fixing cars for a living. Education: high-school certificate. Attended Reed College 1972 in Portland, Oregon...
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...Steve Jobs’ Critical Review S teve Jobs’ management style is not worth emulating because he is always in the headlines, and talking about his unique leadership style has got me thinking about him, and what, if anything, the rest of us can learn from how Jobs did his job. There is no doubt that the Apple’s CEO Mr. Tim Cook will never have what Steve Jobs had in him. Steve Jobs was one of the most creative, visionary, and high-impact leaders of his generation and he has changed many people’s lives just by his visions. How many corporate executives can make a legitimate claim to have reshaped not just one industry but four: computing (the Mac), music (the iPod), mobile communications (the iPhone), and movies (Pixar). And how many CEOs can make the legitimate claim that they achieved their wealth and power by making tens of millions of people so unbelievably happy that they worship the company and its products with near-religious devotion. Because of his “manipulative” behavior he is considered by some of his employees as autocratic. His behavior in meetings for instance is described as being rude, authoritative and obnoxious, and his upmost concern was “Getting the job done” is highest priority. Although Jobs’ found success in a rough management style, it's important to appreciate that Jobs' rudeness and roughness were accompanied by an ability to be inspirational, for that he would do what no other manager has ever done. The best example would be, just to get things done his...
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...Steve Jobs The Co- Founder of Apple Inc. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University JR Barnes Management Information 7/22/2013 In the early days. Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco California on 24 February, 1955, and as a newborn infant Steven was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Clara took a job as an accountant and Paul was a machinist serving in the Coast Guard. Steve and his newly adopted parents live in Mountain View situated in the Silicon Valley inside the San Francisco Bay Area. Steve and his father would work on electronics together inside their garage. As a hobby Steve’s father Paul would show him how to take electronics apart and then reconstructed them. So this was the beginning that stirred the younger Steve Jobs interest and began to build his confidence, ability and superior talent. Intelligent and innovative, Steve tested so well that the school administrators wanted to advance him through to high school. However, his parents had declined the proposal. Steve did eventually enroll into Homestead High School in 1971 where he ended up meeting his future partner Steve Wozniak, Wozniak, was already attending the University of Michigan. In 2007 during an interview with ABC News, Wozniak spoke highly of Steve Jobs and how they became friends and advocates of electronics. After graduation high school in 1972, Steve enrolled into the Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed College was expensive for Paul and Clara and Steve soon realized and dropped out...
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...Steve Jobs 2 Steve Jobs born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was a creator, inventor, and an innovator. Steve Jobs, along with a friend, found an investor in 1977 to fund there first independent project. Within two years, his net worth has increased to 200 hundred million dollars. He helped created a spreadsheet program called VisiCalc for Apple computers (founded in 1976) which became a commercial success. Shortly after Jobs success with Apple, he resigned 1985. He sold all but one of his shares in apple which subsequently was worth millions of dollars. He then brought a group of computer scientists together and incorporated it as “Pixar,” an animated computer graphics programming software. In 1991, Disney signed with Pixar to complete an animated movie. Though Jobs considered Pixar as a “hobby,” Pixar and Disney’s collaboration created the movie Toy Story, an instant hit and marketing machine. While Pixar made its mark in graphic animations history, Jobs continued his ventures in the computer business, mobilizing many gadgets including the iPod mini in 2004, which was done for Apple. The iPod mini, allowed for a thousand songs to be purchased or downloaded onto a palm size device. Songs could be downloaded via your apple computer, or purchased and downloaded on apples internet based store “iTunes.” Not only did this change the way people listened to music, it also changed the way music was sold. Billions of cd’s no longer needed to be pressed...
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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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...Gates (good guess though), but of course I'm referring to the one and only Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers. He, Steve Jobs is one of the biggest icons in the world of technology in the world co-founder of one of the most important and exciting companies in the world. What catch my attention out the most about the leadership style of Steve Jobs, is that he is very charismatic. People often say there is some sort of "aura" about Steve Jobs which makes well respected and followed. Employees do enjoy working with Steve Jobs, as they feel really inspired, true, happy, focus and important. Steve Jobs does an excellent job keeping everyone on track with the companies (Apple) vision. He can do this by being an excellent charismatic leader, visionary, and focused on the longer term rather than short term. ( The famous pose by Steve Jobs ) Apple has some of the greatest smart minds in the world, which can be quite difficult to manage if you ask me. This indicates that Steve Jobs attracted great minds to work under him. This is an inspiration to me and it would be a dream job to work under him. Let me tell you a little about his background, Steve Jobs was born on February 24th, year 1955, in San Francisco, California. It all started when Jobs mother decided to put him for an adoption, because at the time she was not married and had no money. Later on, she found out that his future parents, Justin and Clara Jobs did not graduate college. So she agreed to sign the adoption papers but...
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...Apple History -Apple was founded in 1976 by Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak. - They started off designing a personal computer called the Apple I to Silicon Valley enthusiasts. -Two years later came the first mass produced personal computer the Apple II with first colour display. The Apple II sold 100,000 units which was very successful. - The Macintosh (Mac) was introduced in 1984 with user friendly user-friendly graphical user interface which allowed users to interact with screen images. It was a breakthrough in PC’s but didn’t have the speed, power or software to compete with IBM’s Pc that was introduced in 1981. - Because Mac was faring poorly in the market Steve Jobs became critical of the company’s president and CEO, John Sculley who was hired by the board in 1983. - In 1985 Jobs devised a boardroom coup to replace him while Sculley was in China but Sculley heard about the plan and cancelled his trip, the board voted to keep Sculley in his position and Jobs who was chairman of the company but was stripped of all decision making authority, soon resigned. -That same year Apple’s problems continued and they laid off one fifth of their employees and had their first quarterly loss. In 1987, Apple released a revamped Mac PC with excellent graphic capabilities. -In 1991, Apple released the PowerBook its first generation notebook. In 1993, the board removed Sculley as CEO and chose chief operating officer, Michael Spindler. - In 1994, Apple released the PowerMac family...
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... Executive Summary Apple as one of the most famous and successful corporations and brands in the world can attribute its past success to Steve Jobs and their employees. The whole organisation understands the companies (mainly Steve Jobs) vision and philosophy. In Apple, employees think that they can change the world and bring completely new values to the customers by design and innovation. They not only want to deliver these new values in a simple way, but also want to provide the customers with functionalities and features they need and that are competitive. Apple is capable of applying simplicity to the design and innovation of their products and at the same time considering customers' needs. While living this vision and philosophy, Apple does things different as compared to its competitors. Apple is going its own way and sets own industry standards and norms. Apple does not want to be an imitator but rather an innovator, with products and services that mean something special to their customers. The above described vision and philosophy is applied across the whole Apple organisation and all employees understand what Apple wants to stand for. Apple employees are dedicated and take on and fulfill their responsibilities accordingly. The question on hand is; Can Apple keep up its good performance and reputation after Steve Jobs' dead in 2011? 2. Introduction In the following sections, I will highlight some issues and threads that Apple will be facing with its...
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