STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION2

Early Career3

NeXT, Inc4

Collaborations5

As a Leader6

TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLE6

Autocratic Leadership6

Democratic leadership7

Laissez-Faire7

Types of leaders7

LEADERSHIP THEORIES8

TIME MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP9

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP10

CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND LEADERSHIP10

STEVE JOBS' LEADERSHIP12

Seven Mantras of Steve Jobs' Leadership12

Do what you love12

Put a dent in the universe13

Turn on your brain13

Say no to 1,000 things14

Create experiences incredibly large14

Master of the message15

CONCLUSION15

Steve Jobs

Introduction

Steve Jobs was one of the most influential leaders in the history of technology. With the changing world, Steve Jobs was a man who moved with the pace of the changing environment. He was the one who has made Apple Incorporation what it is today. He is the pioneer in the field of technology, and it is due to him that technology has changed so much. Steve Jobs has been a great leader in the field of technology which has helped him to ensure that people are up to date with the technology. He was the one who revolutionized the personal computers and made sure that the features of the personal computers are in favour of the people who are using it (Wren, 1995, pp. 99).

The leadership of Steve Jobs is the main reason behind the success of Apple. People who worked at Apple said that Steve Jobs was one of the greatest leaders they had ever witnessed. Steve Jobs was a drop out, and still is one of the greatest leaders in the history of the world. People who are associated with the company or with Steve Jobs know that he is a skilled person. Jobs' leadership style was one of the most prominent which helped him to achieve success. When he dropped out from the university due to a calligraphy course, he continued studying auditing. He slept on the floor of his friends' rooms and returned bottles of Coke for food. He made sure that he did not stop studying.

Early Career

Jobs started his professional career in 1974 as a technician in Atari, Inc. in California. There, he was handed over the responsibility of creating a circuit board for the game, Breakout. He was offered $100 for eliminating each chip in the machine. Jobs did not know much about reducing chips; however, his friend Wozniak did. He got into an agreement with Wozniak and said that if he reduced the chips, Jobs would give him half of the money that he would earn out of this activity. To his surprise, Wozniak reduced the chips by 50 and made the design as such that it eliminated the threat of the design being copied on an assembly line. This made Jobs realize that he and Wozniak are enthusiastic partners.

Jobs visited India soon after he started his professional career. He spent seven months in India visiting different places, and the visit turned out to be a spiritual one. This spiritual visit had a positive influence on him, especially Buddhism (Northouse, 2007, pp. 17). He was one of the most prominent businessmen in today's world, and his personality can be related to the spiritual visit in ...