Steve Jobs

jumped from $7.4 million to $136.9 million. Reported earnings also leaped; from $.34 per share in 1986 to

Good leadership is a process of influencing ans encouraging people to work as a team with efficiency to achieve the organizational goals (Drouillard & Kleiner, 1996). Different leaders has different leadership styles, a good leadership style can be very efficiency for an organization which can develop and encourage employees. According to Darling and Leffel’s (2010) framework, this essay will discuss how Steve Ballmer as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, the leadership styles as both Creator and Connector made him such a successful leader of Microsoft. This essay will argue that Steve Ballmer has the leadership style as Creator and Connector, and he has the abilities to develop well, encourage people to towards the Microsoft to success.

Net income on the income statement: $2,377,000,000 ($5.37 per share), which is an increase of 15% compared to 2014.

In May 2010, Apple's market cap closed the day at $222.12 billion putting it ahead of rival Microsoft Corp. Shares of Apple reached an all-time high of $330.26 during 2011's first regular trading session.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Director of the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard University, and an esteemed Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. According to his Harvard University profile he is an “Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, institution builder…and the recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous prizes.” Professor Gates was also the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1973 he earned his Bachelors in English Language and Literature from Yale University, and in 1974-1979 he got his Master’s. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge (Department of African and African American Studies). Throughout many of his texts Gates provides examples of the ambiguity of language and identity, and the oppressive role ideology plays in the black community; allowing readers to apply the idea of deconstruction to our own daily experiences

Growth: Due to high sales, size of company increased and so did its working staff increased. Apple went public on 12th December 1980 with a share price of $22 per share. Many investors wanted to be a part of it. Apple used the diversification strategy to come ahead of its

Leadership is “ critical in codifying and maintaining an organizations’ purpose, values, and vision. “ ( PM World Today Journal ). Having good leadership methods in place at an organization is vital in bringing success to a company. Steve Jobs is highly stimulated and has a strong idea of what he wants for Apple to achieve in upcoming periods. He is a transformational leader, and this, “ represents the most popular current view of leadership. This leader is characterised by a capacity to create a highly motivating and absorbing vision of the future, and has the capability to energise others to pursue the vision. “ ( Claremont McKenna College Journal ). Jobs has put in a huge effort to create a strong framework of control and direction, for example, “ Since returning to Apple, Steve has put as much energy into creating a strong management structure as he has into the products. “ ( www.ft.com ). This is highly effective leadership, trying to improve the design of the organisation in order to achieve more efficiency.

$15.3 million. The return on average invested capital in 1984 was around 20%. Over the past five

• On the very first day of trading, Apple Computer had a market value of $1.2 Billion

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

A leader is someone that you can look up to, someone who has a conglomerate of attributes that motivate people to follow them. There are many reasons why you can find someone amusing, intriguing or interesting but the conglomerate of actions performed by them is what makes them stand over others. A global leader is someone who has transcends the geographical limits with their contributions not only to their field but to humanity as well. In this essay I will briefly discussed the attributes of the global leader I selected, his visions and his contributions to

Humans have sailed the roughest of the seven seas and scaled the highest of mountains on Earth. Dubbed as “the final frontier” colloquially and by the popular science fiction movie series Star Trek, space and our colonization of extraterrestrial bodies are accepted as the next challenges in our natural progression of exploration as a species. In a 1983 lecture titled Our Future In The Cosmos — Space given at The College of William & Mary, writer and professor Isaac Asimov candidly states: “Unless we are willing to settle down into a world that is our prison, we must be ready to move beyond Earth.”

A rule to live by. Well what is a rule to live by? This is the rule that suits you the best. It motivates you everyday, and when you are in a tough situation, you can call on it to help you. The rule that I use to live by is that when life gives you a problem, make the most out of it. This is very important to me. Life is never a walk in the park. There are always problems that everyone face, whether they are personal, or global. Many problems such as depression, hunger, or even disability hurt people every day. Many people let these problems take over their lives. But, when I face a problem, I remember this fundamental, and make the best out of the situation. Throughout my life, this moral has been very important to me.

Apple was successful virtually from the date of the company's first launch in 1976 (Fisk, 2008). Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold their initial 200 units without difficulty and that made it possible for them to secure the necessary venture capital to expand their fledgling company into one that quickly grew into being one of the premier computer manufacturers at a time when there was comparatively little competition. They sold their first 100,000 Apple Units and reached the $1 billion annual sales milestone in record time. Even the subsequent challenge posed by the IBM line of Windows-based computers in 1985 stimulated Apple to increase its research and development budget which quickly allowed Apple to dominate the desktop publishing, educational products, and peripherals markets amounting to approximately half of the entire computer market and global recognition as the most successful computer manufacturer in the world. As a result, Apple also reached the $1 billion cash reserve milestone as well (Fisk, 2008).

revenues of US$ 56.7 billion and a net income of US$ 7.5 billion (in 2005). It employed 113,600