Management of Organizations
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Introduction
'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.' Said by Steven Jobs as stated by Stanford report (2005) who is the CEO of Apple Inc. from 1997 to 2011, Steve Jobs became famous and popular as the point of view from external of Apple. Apple Inc. kept launch surprising products and features in public that made user experienced unusual products such as music player, smart phone and computer with new platform and software. On the other hand, as a great leader, there must be some remarkable abilities to lead Apple Inc. internally to recognize and proud of. For Steve Jobs, that is profit and creation.
(Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg, 16 Dec 2012.)
In 1998, Apple Inc. turned to profit again since Steve Jobs take over Apple Inc. again as a CEO in 1997. From 1998, Apple Inc. maintains a high profitability to company and without slowdown to develop new products and software. Apple Inc. stock value stated around 4 US dollar in 1997 to become around 10 US dollar in 1998. Also, Steve Jobs bring Apple Inc. to the highest amount of 422 US dollar per stock in 2011. From the investor point of view, that's the greatest leader which could make such profit in 14 years.
Every leader performed differently for leadership skill and has unusual personalities, below is the three main parts that shows the profile of Steve Jobs, Background, Personality and Leadership.
Background
Most people only think of Steve Jobs will be reminiscent of Apple Company, they are interrelation, and he was the American entrepreneur and inventor. He was best known as the founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. In the end of 1970s, Steven with other founder and investor developed and started to sell the Apple II series. In 1985, He left Apple after a power struggle with the board of directors, and set up NeXT Company. In 1996 Apple Board of directors decided to buy the NeXT Company, and brought back Steve Jobs to Apple. In 2000 Steve Jobs become an official CEO. From 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor, he fought for eight years, and eventually died on October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs is the outstanding leader? We must know what he contributes to the company? Steve Jobs like to require employees to complete a seemingly impossible task, but in his leadership, are not likely to ultimately really become a reality. We can find back the record Apple company in 1996, Apple business face to Business recession, they loss of the market share and the operating problem, the whole company began to look forward to top ability management of Apple company. At that time Steve Jobs return to Apple for interim CEO, he rectifying the company's internal, and tries to re-build a new Apple brand name. He cooperated with Advertising Company to launch "Think different" advertisements, and start the innovation for company's products emphasis on the design. In 1997,
(Wikipedia, Steve Jobs,http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs, 18-Nov, 2012)
Apple introduced the iMac, the innovative shell color transparent design big sell in United States and Japan. Steve Jobs solved Apple a financial crisis.
Steve Jobs is a passionate orator; Apple's internal describe the influence of Steve Jobs "Reality distortion field". This is the urgent desire of him his eyes, eloquent expressions and he distorted the facts in order to achieve the goal. He is relying on this mysterious ability to change the crowd around him, changed the industry's thinking.
(Wikipedia, Steve Jobs,http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs, 18-Nov, 2012)
The products he designed rewrite people life style. Today, many people used "Reality distortion field" to outline Steve Jobs has powerful brainwashing ability. In fact, a lot of Human are brainwashed in the world, I believe around you will definitely someone uses the products he created.
Steve Jobs was a strong perfectionist and used it to create a myth of Apple enterprise. It is also well-known products such as iMac, iPod, iPhone created by Steve Jobs' perfectionist. These products are changing the world. In his press conference, he described the Apple product features and appearance perfectly. He also used the Jeans to introduce the products every time, the Apple products invented in addition to easy for people to use, it also convenient Human to carry. As he said: "To live be to change the world, could there be other reasons?" (Jeffrey S Young, William L. Simon, 2006) He designed the products; truly change the lives of people around the world.
(Wikipedia, Steve Jobs,http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs, 18-Nov, 2012)
The launch of the first computer in 1975, the young people were still enjoying life at that time, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs was the twenty years old young people in 1975, Steve Jobs dropped out of the school that forced him to learn to innovation. Bill Gates entered the Harvard, but he gave up in the last year. Both of them haven't completed the University, and they started the creation of invention and career. They are very different type of leadership, Steve Jobs is born in the ordinary civilians, and he worked hard and won the support of many enthusiasts, elegant design and graphical user interface.
(Bill Gates & Steve Jobs, Baidu http://hi.baidu.com/pqjazaclkqamwze/item/58b2933158cc74362e20c4f9, 18-Nov, 2012)
Bill Gates was born in the middle-class families, he builds up the Microsoft and final rule of the entire PC industry. Both of them are very smart and creative leader, but looked back their background, we can see Steve Jobs worked harder than everyone before reach today's success. We can say when the world does not have these two outstanding leadership of invention and product promotion, How the world would become? These should be no one can imagine.
Personality of Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs)
Steve Jobs was born in 1955, who was an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder Apple incorporation. After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company. In 1998, Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998. He was
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