Steve Jobs: Leadership and Legacy

This assignment delves into the multifaceted leadership of Steve Jobs, analyzing his contributions to Apple's success and his enduring legacy. It examines various aspects of his leadership, including charisma, vision, and communication skills, drawing upon provided academic articles that explore different facets of his persona and impact.

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The paper talks about the biography of Steve Jobs. It explains that how Steve jobs
inspired and encouraged other people for doing work. It tells that how the leader is using various
leadership style at the workplace to motivate and encourage other people within the organization.
It describes the cruciable events of his life. Along with this, the essay explains the negative
aspects of the Steve Jobs leadership. Further, it explains the achievement of the Steve Jobs. It
describes the that how Steve jobs became a powerful and wonderful leader around the world.
Steve Jobs was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco, California. He is a
computer designer, innovator, and executive as well as role model for several people in their
personal life as well as businesses. He developed and build an interest in engineering and
computers at a young age and he inspired and motivated by his father. After dropping out of
university in the primary semester, Steve jobs expanded and flourished his spiritual side while
wandering and traveling in India. He was focused on simplicity and ethic and Steve Jobs
believed that simple and easy can be harder than difficult and complex. He believed that people
have to work hard to make clean and simple the thinking of the people (Cornelissen, 2013).
When Steve job was 21 years of age, then he decided to move on mountains. In high
school, he met with his future collaborator, Steve Wozniak. Steve Wozniak and Steve jobs
started work on Apple computers in the family garage. To start a new business they need money,
therefore, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and his partner sold scientific calculator. In this
way, they collect money for a new venture and they made apple computer which was expensive
and immense and not accessible and available easily. He is the technology inventor and
American businessmen who is known as the chief executive, co-founder and chairmen of the
Apple Inc. Steve jobs father’s taught his son that how to work on electronics in the garage
(Myrick, Willoughby, JNoar & Brown, 2013). As a result, Steve jobs showed his interest in
technical tinkering. Following secondary school graduation in 1972, Steve jobs were enlisted at
Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was costly and massive college which Paul and Clara
could not afford. The father of Steve jobs saved money and spent huge amount on his son’s
advanced education. After six months he dropped the college and next 18 months he took
creative classes. After then, Steve jobs was taking continue audit classes at Reed College while
sleeping on the floor. He was getting free food at the Hare Krishna local temple. He is called
inventor and entrepreneur (Steinwart & Ziegler, 2014).
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Steve Jobs introduced Apple –II in 1997. In 1984, he launched the Apple Macintosh to increase
the demand of Apple products. Jobs appointed some of his former employees to begin and make
a new computer company which is called Next. After sometimes Next computer was launched in
San Francisco which aims to reach the educational market. The product was very good with had
a quick processing speed, excellent and effective graphics displays and good and unique sound
system (Rughinis & Matei, 2013). It was very expensive and people could not compare to other
computers around the world. Steve jobs fulfills his needs, desires and requirements and he
suffered from cancer in the middle age of 56 years and he died on 5th October 2011. His journey
was very interesting and inspiring. He is the real role model for other people. Many achievement
and rewards were taken by the Steve jobs for his brilliant performance and talent. He is
considered most inspiring person and lucky man on the earth. There were many different people
in the world who contributed to develop and build new and innovative technology. Steve jobs is
one of the best inventors around the world. He brought new and innovative ideas to develop and
build technologies in the world (Martinko, Harvey, Brees & Mackey, 2013). He has great
leadership traits to attract more people. He was talented and intelligent person. Now it is
assumed that life of Steve jobs provides inspirational and motivation to the people around the
world. In 1986, Steve Jobs bought a minor company Pixar from filmmaker George Lucas. The
company got specialization in computer simulation and animation. After some times Pixar
released and launched Toy story, a huge box office hit. The toy story films became effective and
successful (Grijalva & Harms, 2014). Various key challenges were faced by the Steve job when
he started his career. But he learned many things from these challenges and risks.
After the various researchers, it has been analyzed that Steve jobs known as one of the
most innovative and influential players around the world. Jobs is not only the chairmen and
founder of the Pier and apple but he was able to lead some other organization across the world.
He was considered as a motivator for some other business and technology leaders in the world.
By using new technology and development, he was increasing his revenue and profit. The net
worth of the Steve jobs was predicted at $10.2 billion. In this way, he became a rich person at
that time (Murphy, 2015).
Steve jobs is one the biggest and famous leaders across the world. Various leadership
styles were used by the jobs. The leadership styles provide direction and guidance to the
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employees. In today’s era, various leadership styles are used by the companies in business and
politics. Further, steve jobs is most valuable and remarkable player in modern history and he is
the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple company (Hurley-Hanson, & Giannantonio,
2013). He demonstrated personal attributes as a leader. He brought growth and success for the
Apple Inc. There were three leadership styles which were used by him to determine efficiency
and effectiveness of the employees. After sometimes he felt that the organization required a
charming and magnetic leader to transform the organization in the global market. Tyrannical
leadership style was used by the Steve Jobs. Further, he is a transformational player and
visionary inventor of the Apple Inc. It is most valuable and precise firm in Silicon Valley
(Martinko, Harvey, Brees & Mackey, 2013). He had transformed five industries which include
music, computers, retailing, music and wireless phones. He was not a traditional player and
conventional leader. He was trying to attract more customers around the world. Further,
transformational leadership style was used by the firm which is necessary for success and
innovation. Transformational leadership style may be defined as a process where a player works
with subordinates to evaluate and measure the changes in order to guide and inspire the
employees for doing work effectively and efficiently (Shah & Mulla, 2013). He transformational
and tyrannical leadership style to ensure and evaluate the high quality and efficiency of the
employees for delivering the good products and services within the organization. In addition,
Steve jobs was used authoritarian leadership style to control and manage the team within the
organization. He was focused on the plans and policies of the company in order to meet the long-
term goals and objectives of the firm. In this way, he was able to make his products effective and
unique. He believed that leader is a person who can overcome the various risks and challenges.
Steve jobs was focused on the innovative and new technologies to increase the demand for the
products. In addition, Steve jobs was a transformational leader and his autocratic leadership style
was totally different from the other players in the world (Martinko, Harvey, Brees & Mackey,
2013). But some leaders do not accept his leadership style. The Apple growth and success is
showed that leadership style of Steve jobs was excellent and wonderful. Further, leadership
styles depending on the situation and circumstances. Steve jobs said that leadership should be
simple and innovative to determine the mission and vision of the company. It will help to
encourage and build confidence and trust among the employees. Steve Jobs could be mean-
spirited, arrogant, and dictatorial but he was a wonderful leader (Streeter, 2015).
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Steve jobs is very talented and wonderful leader in the world. He is the man from whom people
learn many things. There are many crucible events which shaped Steve jobs leadership
approaches and theories. Steve jobs insisted and encouraged his team to do work effectively and
efficiently. He found a life’s lessons in the mundane events of his everyday existence. Steve jobs
provides a striking example of example of leadership. In addition, two additional example of job
ability learn from Steve Jobs. He shaped and developed new and innovative technologies and he
explained the significance of end to end integration. He was an unconventional player and he is
one of the biggest leaders around the world (Harju & Moisander, 2014). He was a very hard
worker and skilled person. He is rendered a summer job at Hewlett Packard. In addition, Steve
Wozniak was the partner of the Steve job and they both were doing work together. In 1974, he
got a good job at Atari video company. In this way, he raised money and pay for a trip to India
and he did not want to go back to Atari. Steve Wozniak and Steve jobs made apple computer.
Jobs did not like her daughter Lisa and ignored her from childhood years. When he was 25 years
of age when he became a millionaire in the world. Apple Inc. shows the Macintosh computer
around the world and after sometimes he left apple Inc. company. Further, jobs started a new
company call Next which sold computers to the universities but he had lost 10 million dollars. In
1990, Steve Jobs met Laurence Powell and they felled in love with her and got married. After
sometimes, Pixar generates Toy story which became the most famous movie of the year and jobs
became a billionaire in 1996 (Harju & Moisander, 2014). He launched the iPod in 2001 and
introduced the iPhone in 2007 across the world. These are the crucible events of Steve jobs
which shaped in leadership approach. There are various leadership qualities in Steve jobs
through which he became the wonderful leader. He believed that good leaders have a team spirit
and confidence to reach the mission and vision. Through confidence, Steve jobs touched the
level of success and growth in the world. He said that good leader should be adaptable and they
should act with a sense of urgency. He was very adaptable and he used this advantage in various
circumstances to gain the success and growth. He improved and developed his skills and
leadership style to attain the needs and requirements of the company. Steve Jobs acted with a
sense of controlled and urgency in all the work and ask what he did that time. He always
motivated to his team in order to gain progress and growth. Steve Jobs had a good mission and
vision. Generally, he always keep thinking about the future for accomplishing the goals and
objectives. He generated new ideas and thought for future of the Apple Inc (Holiman, 2013).
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Some leaders believed that Steve Jobs is not an effective and wonderful leader. Tomas
Chamorro- Premuzic said the Steve jobs was not a charismatic leader. Many leaders say that
charisma is a poor forecaster of successful leadership. Further, the transformational leadership
style of Steve jobs did not become successful due to lack of human qualities. Power motives is
another negative aspect of jobs leadership. His motives appear egocentric and selfish. He could
slash some ideas and thoughts. Some leaders said that he was very arrogant and rude. He sends
wrong and erroneous message to inspiring other people (Catmull & Wallace, 2015). Steve Jobs
was very petulant, irritable and brittle. He took various wrong decisions in his life. He recruited
John scullery as CEO of the Apple Inc that was a great mistake of Steve Jobs. Further, he
believed and entrusted that Pixar was a great hardware company. He did not know the right
market and country for Next computer. The company was struggling to find right customers and
market around the world (Martinko, Harvey, Brees & Mackey, 2013). He became failure due to
launching and introducing various products at the same time. He was trying to sell Pixar several
times which were the wrong decision of Steve Jobs. These were the negative aspects of Steve
Jobs leadership. He was autocratic leader thus; it was the negative aspect of Steve Jobs
leadership. Jobs personally abused to the other people. He hired workers in angry tantrums. He
did not provide motivation to the employees (Miller, 2015). In this way, they felt disappointment
and unhappy. He was the autocratic leader, therefore, he took the decision himself; he did not
take a suggestion from others. Sometimes, his decisions became very serious and dangerous. He
failed to develop and build workers commitment in order to meet the long-term objectives of the
firm. He created various problems at the workplace thus; employees were not able to do work
effectively and efficiently (Luria, Kalish & Weinstein, 2014). He did not take feedback from the
managers, therefore; it created various misunderstanding and obstacles within the organization.
He failed to develop and build team spirit and coordination among the employees. Further, Steve
jobs was a transformational leader and he was using transformational leadership style. As a result
he sometimes took wrong and incorrect decisions. This leadership style is not effective and it is
very risky and challenging. He did not understand the needs, requirements, and expectations of
the employees. He did not provide training to the new candidates, therefore; various problems
were faced by the employees. He was not able to control various conflicts and obstacles related
to the employees. Steve jobs was very bully and rude and the barks on his employees. After the
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various researchers, it has been analyzed that he was not a good and wonderful leader
(Heracleous, & Klaering, 2014).
On the above discussion, it has been concluded that Steve jobs life is very inspiring and
challenging. He is the CEO, founder, and chairmen of the Apple Inc. Various products have been
launched by the Apple Inc. company. He learned a lot of things in his life and he gained ample of
knowledge and experience. Although Steve jobs is wonderful and inspiring leader he was very
arrogant. Various leadership styles were used by Steve Jobs. Further, he sold his Volks Wagen
microbus and he became successful. Steve Wozniak is the partner of the Steve Jobs. Jobs is very
powerful and innovative player around the world. Apple I, Apple II, Pixar, Next, iMac,
Macintosh, and Laser writer are the biggest achievement of the Steve Jobs. He is the rich person
in the world. Various innovative and new technologies were developed by the Steve Jobs. In this
way, he motivating and inspiring leader for other people. People take motivation from his life.
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