Steve Jobs- A person with magical persona Steve Jobs an unconventional leader whose management style could not be described as a part of any text - he had no consultative or consensus building approach. But it was his sheer genius with his ability to articulate his vision and bring staff, investors and customers along the journey - plus the lessons learned in a major career setback - that made it work. And the result is - The Indisputable. ( Sarah McInerney Oct 7 2011) He emphasized on the importance of teamwork, innovation, usage of experience, hard work, intelligence and control over every minor to a major decisions in an organization as a leader. Jobs considered teamwork among his employees as a key to the success.
Transformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. Transformational leadership and those who follow it are change orientated. These types of leaders under stand that “good enough” never is, and what works can always be made better. Working for a transformational leader can be an uplifting experience, they put passion and energy into everything. Steven Paul “Steven” Jobs was an co founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Not only that he was also the co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar.
This case is based on an interview of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the author of Jobs's biography. His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large. Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world's most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform Page 370seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing…. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was producing an array of computers and peripherals, including a dozen different versions of the Macintosh.
According to Fortune 500, a list rating 500 best US companies, in 2012, Apple is at the seventeenth position in this list and is one of three most profitable companies (money.cnn.com). Nowadays, Apple has had nearly 15,000 employees in many countries all over the world. Since being established, Apple has always tried to “differentiate itself through elegantly simple design” (Christopher Meyer, 2012). This statement has been realized during the leadership of Steve Jobs and now new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook continues following this orientation. Consumers can easily see that the appearance of Apple products is quite simple and fit with many classes but their insides functions and characteristics are very fantastic.
Apple and Foxconn improve their working conditions Apple is an American multinational companies, design and sales of consumer electronic products, computer software, and personal computers, Macintosh series computer in the company's best-known hardware products iPod, iPhone and iPad. Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturing company, headquartered in Tucheng, Taipei County, Taiwan. It is the world's largest manufacturer of electronic components, the largest exporter in Greater China. Foxconn has been involved in some controversy, mainly how to manage employees in China; it is the largest private employer in the world. Fair Labor Association in 2012, Apple hired to audit the working conditions at Foxconn.
A good example of a game changing company that has help mold the modern world would be Apple. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and best friend Steve Woznaik on April 1st, 1976. Their first computer was an upgraded version of computer giant IBM’s basic model the 6502. Most people don’t have what it takes to be an entrepreneur or product manager. A lot
The Competitive Advantage of Apple, Inc. Having a competitive advantage is important in business. It means possessing and maintaining a product or ideal that positions your business ahead of the competition. Companies that develop and maintain a strong competitive advantage become and remain the first name people think of when in the market for said company’s products. A prime example is Apple, Inc., founded in 1976 by the now iconic Steve Jobs. Since its inception, Apple has been the computer company to beat.
He emphasized the importance of design and the crucial role aesthetics play for end users. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant has earned him a devoted following. Personality Traits “Jobs has embraced the personality traits that some consider flaws—narcissism, perfectionism, total faith in his intuition—to lead Apple and Pixar to triumph against steep odds,” Kahney wrote in his book Inside Steve’s Brain. It is also well known that Jobs has a legendary temper; he didn't seem to care about the severe damage he caused to egos or emotions, so long as he pushed for greatness. These personality traits have dubbed much of his management skills and strive for innovation and perfectionism.
Apple products are a part of our daily lives, many people have written books, articles, given talks on the reason why apple has been very successful in business. Some have cited management ideas, apples business strategies and Steve jobs way of approaching things as some reasons of why apple has been successful, however on a closer look the following principles contribute to apple success ; first of all apple products are not created just developed because they have the best engineers who can develop the products from the best technology on the contrary the employee of the company have to like the product initially before its released to the market, this is evident because Steve jobs always used apple products, the assumption of apple is that the employees represented the ideals of the customer ,hence they have to produce something that they can live without this is in contrast to other companies whose goals are to produce the product and then test with the customer which can either lead to failure of a product or its success. Apples products are usually user friendly, consumers tend to shy away from products that are difficult to operate, the product has to be easy to learn as well as understand (Lusted,
Therefore they spent a happy life with each other. After his high school he was enrolled in Reed College in portland.in 1976 he and Wozniak joined apple computers. He provided the best guidance to this company. He reduced the size and improved the performance of machines .but he left apple due to some issues in1985.on October 5, 2011 apple announced that jobs