1. A study of
The Leadership Style
of
Steve Jobs
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2. BIOGRAPHY
o Born on February 24, 1955 and adopted by Paul & Clara Jobs.
o Worked with HP for summer internship after High School.
o Dropped out of college after the very first semester.
o 1976: Started Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak in 1976.
o 1984: Introduced Revolutionary Macintosh the market.
o 1985: was forced to resign by the board of directors of Apple computers.
o 1986: Founded Next Computers
o 1986: Co-founded Pixar Animation Studio.
o 1997: Next computers was sold to Apple & Jobs became the CEO.
o 2001: launched revolutionary ipod
o 2007: Introduced 3G iphone, first of its kind in the market.
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5. JOB’S LEADERSHIP
• Like a transformational leader, he focuses on "transforming" others to help
each other, to look out for each other, to be encouraging and
harmonious, and to look out for the organization as a whole.
• At Apple, he is seen as a leader whose brilliance and idealistic vision of
"providing computers as a tool to change the world," drew other talented
people to him
• His Leadership creates valuable and positive change in the followers.
• In his leadership, he enhances the motivation, morale and performance of his
follower group. Some people also categorize him as a charismatic leader.
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7. “FROM CRITICS DESK…”
• “his habit of making decisions and then suddenly changing his mind has
been given as part of the reason he is difficult to work for”-brainmass
• “Jobs has got an aggressive and demanding personality”.-critics
• “He is one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs”.–Fortune Magazine
• “Jobs would have made an excellent king of France with his compelling
and larger-than-life persona”- Jef Raskin, former collegue.
• “Some times he acts anti gates, & some times he requests Microsoft to
develop software for their computers, that is weird”.-critics
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8. “You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the
time you get it built, they'll want something new” – Steve Jobs
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9. HONORS
• 1985: National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan with
Steve Wozniak(the first people to ever receive the honor)
• 1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category (the Samuel S.
Beard Award).
• 2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune
Magazine
• 2007: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria
Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame
• 2009: Jobs was selected the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers on
a survey by Junior Achievement
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