Steve Jobs: A Leader Who Defied the Rule Book

In 1974, Steve Jobs was a video game designer for Atari but he knew he was destined for greater. In 1976, when Jobs was 21, he started Apple Computer with Wozniak. He took a break at one time and traveled to India and experimented with psychedelic drugs. Steve Jobs had to sell his car for the greater good of his company. In 1980, Apple Computer had a market value of $1.2 billion. In 3 years, Apple Co. sales increased by 700%. Steve Jobs took Apple and ran with

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Before there was Apple Inc., there were two young high school friends, Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak. These two young geniuses were extremely interested in technology and electronics, and they used this passion to find employment. Jobs worked for Atari, and Wozniak worked for Hewlett-Packard. In April of 1976, in a garage with just $1,300, the two Stevens came together to form a dynamic duo. With Wozniak’s flair for computer design, and Jobs ability to look further into the future, they both created the Apple computer. Now branding began to emerge as Ronald Wayne became a 3rd founder of Apple Inc. since was responsible for creating the company’s first logo which he later resigned because he believed that the company would pose a financial risk. The new logo was created by Ron Janov designs. The company’s first president was Mike Scott. The company was not taken seriously until 1977 when the company came out with the Apple II, which was the “first personal computer to come in a plastic case and include color graphics,” at this point Apple Inc. became incorporated. The company continued to improve with the introduction of Apple III. In 1983, Apple Inc. became the fastest growing company in history, and at this time

College dropout Steve Jobs and high school dropout Steve Wozniak put Apple Computer (known as Apple) in the public eye on April 1st in 1976 via the Apple I computer kit, a starter for do-it-yourselfers (Deffree, Suzanne). Personal computing began primarily as an expensive hobby for those who could understand how to work with the mechanisms. The Apple I contained only the circuit board (the ‘brains’ of the system) with other limited things sold separately, but overall the system was to be built by its operator. It cost $666.66 which would be $2804.22 with relation to today’s inflation qualities (“The Inflation Calculator”, “History of the Apple Computer”). The introduction of these computers brought the technology to a wider audience, helping more people gain the

The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000 (Bhanderi). At the time this was Apple’s very first product and to be able to afford this creation Jobs had to sell his calculator in order to do so for $500. However, being their first creation they did experience a few flaws and glitches but were eventually fixed in later models to come. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million (Bhanderi). While jobs was busy with other projects such as NeXT and Pixar, without him Apple slowly lost popularity until he persuaded executive members to buy NeXT in 1996. He was established CEO in 1997, and he held this position until his death 2011(Friedman). Today many say the macbook and iMac are the best computers on the market and are most companies top competitors. The evolution of Apple is incredible considering that Jobs himself was at the time, a college dropout and this company has become was it is

The American visionary was born on February 24, 1995 in San Francisco, California. Unbeknownst to most, Jobs was actually adopted by his parents Paul and Clara Jobs. The family raised Jobs in Mountain View, California from five years old and on. Here his father worked for a company, which manufactured lasers. As his father

The theories applied to Steve Jobs have opened my mind to realise how important effective leadership styles are to organisations. A lesson learnt from Steve’s leadership qualities is that a leader can adapt different style of leadership and this makes a leader more effective and efficient. The late Apple boss was a master of employing various strategies to adapt to differing scenarios and situations. Steve Jobs did not exhibit a single rhetorical style, but rather altered it depending on the situation and yet still managed to deliver a constant message to support his company’s

The term founding father is oftentimes portrayed in regards to those men in history who began the flawed yet irreplaceable nation we know today as the United States. In broader means, the term loosely refers to he innumerable men and women who created something out of nothing. They were and are the forerunners in any particular genre of business, technology, and all the other overlooked aspects that make up everyday life. In modern times of technology, Steve Jobs may not be perceived often for any particular significance as his lineage may now be ignored due to his recent departure. The brand that he founded, Apple, will go down in history as being a corporate giant in he field of electronic components. Even now, this essay is being constructed on a device possible primarily due to the original inventive genius that was Steve Jobs. Pressure to succeed whilst he was at the summit, lucidly, made it extremely difficult at times to remain a civilized human being or businessman. Ergo, many see Jobs as a tyrannical dictator of a monopolistic corporation. Certainly, there are many supportive details buttressing the arguments of either conjecture. Correspondingly, an attempt to better understand the uncompromising alienation will ensue. Plausibly, the aforementioned will be done through a look at his initial despondent family life, questionable business ventures, and the undeniable legacy left by the influential story impacting entrepreneurs to this day.

The development of Apple Inc. came during the unstable economic times of the 1970’s. Best friends and college dropouts, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak pooled their electronic and business

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal is a biography of the celebrated technology leader who put a cell phone, computer and the Internet all in your pocket in the form of the iPhone. There were many other innovations that the high-tech rock star and face of the personal computer developed over the years. Although he had many gifts, he was at times his own worst enemy.

On his return Steve started hanging around Wozniak, the electronic genius. The Apple Computer was formed on April fool’s Day 1976, after Jobs and Wozniak created a new computer circuit board in Jobs’s family garage. The Apple 1 computer goes on sale by the summer for $666.66.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in California in 1976. Their mission was to introduce an easy to use computer to market, which led to a computing revolution and quickly became the industry leader by selling more than 100,000 Apple IIs in 1980. After IBM entered PC market, IBM PCs, which used Microsoft’s DOS (OS), gained more market share and became the new standard for the PC industry. At the same time, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984. However, Apple’s net income fell 62% due to the Mac’s slow processor speed and lack of software limited sales. In 1985, Steve Jobs was forced out and John Sculley took charge of the Mac. Under the direction of Sculley, Apple

In this ever growing, rapid developing world as we can see today, there are many 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.

Co-founded by Steve Jobs in 1976, the company was named under Apple Computers Inc. and its initial product Apple IIe gained relative popularity and success. The release of the Macintosh revolutionized the computer experience with a graphical user interfere and a pointer devise called the ‘mouse’ was launched in the same year. The company went public in 1980 resulting in its owners gaining immediate wealth. However, its company’s

In its infancy, Apple Computer Inc. began with the Macintosh personal computer. The company was founded on April 1, 1976. The founders were Steve Wozniak and Steven Jobs. They incorporated the company in 1977, on January 3rd, in Cupertino, California. In the twenty years that followed, the company produced personal computers. Besides the Macintosh, Apple Inc. made Apple II, and the Power Mac lines. Although they lasted for decades, during the 90’s the company experienced some turbulent times with low sales and market share. Steve Jobs left Apple Inc. and came back in 1996 when his company, NeXT was purchased by Apple. In 1997, Jobs became the interim CEO. In later years it became a permanent position for him.