Steve Jobs: Personal Leadership Profile and Achievements

This presentation discusses the personal leadership profile of Steve Jobs, his achievements, biography, and career highlights.

Management and Operation
Steve Jobs

Introduction
 This presentation is developed to discuss the
personal leadership profile of Steve Jobs along
with its achievements. Further, biography and
career highlights has been included in this
presentation.

Introduction
 This presentation is developed to discuss the
personal leadership profile of Steve Jobs along
with its achievements. Further, biography and
career highlights has been included in this
presentation.

Steve Jobs Biography
 Name: Steve Paul Jobs
 Born on 24 Feb, 1955
 Died on 5 Oct 2011 at the age of 56
in US.
 Residence: California
 Nationality: American
 Occupation:
 Co-founder, Chairman
and CEO, Apple Inc.
 Co-founder and CEO,
Pixar
 Founder and CEO,
NeXT Inc,
 Years Active: 1974 to 2011
 Board Member of: The Walt
Disney Company, Apple Inc.
 Religion: Zen Buddhism
 Spouse: Laurene Powell

Career Highlights
 1974: First job at video game maker Atari.
 1976: Steve Jobs founded Apple
 1980: Company gains huge points on stock market, making him millionaire
 1984: Macintosh computers was launched by Apple
 1985: Wozniak leave the firm and Jobs was forced to leave the firm by John Sculley.
Steve set up new computing firm NeXT.
 1991: Apple launches Powerbook Laptop
 1996: Stock of Apple falls all time low. Purchase of NeXT brings Jobs back to Apple.
 1997: Jobs appointed as Chief Executive
 1998: iMac desktop computer launched followed by iBook in the year 1999.

Career Highlights (Cont.)
 2001: iPod digital music player launched by Steve Jobs which is one of the
key products that revolutionised the music industry.
 2003: Jobs diagnosed by pancreatic cancer.
 2007: iPhone launched in the market that change the mobile industry for
ever. Touch phone in market is started from this product only.
 2009: Apple releases MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
 2 Mar 2011: Jobs announces medical leave without any end date. In-spite of
it Jobs make the move to unveil new iPad2.
 24 Aug 2011: Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple.
 5 Oct 2011: Jobs dies at home.

Key Operation of Organisation
 Steve Jobs plays a significant role in shaping the operation of organisation to
which it was associated. In the initial days of incorporation of Apple, huge
attention is attained from investors and customers due to which the company
floated at stock market. This certainly make Steve as Millionaire.
 Jobs was forced to leave Apple as he founded NeXT and Pixar which gains
high attention among experts in no time. This clarifies that Steve was able to
invent new things in different organisation which certainly gets success.
Under
 Stock of Apple was declined to all time low in the year 1996. At this time,
Jobs was called back and hold the position of CEO. Under this supervision
and guidance, different innovative devices are launched that helps restoring
trust back in Apple.
 In the guidance of Steve Jobs, Apple launched most innovative and liked
product iPhone that changes whole mobile phone segment.

Internal and External Operation
Management
 Steve Jobs was thrown out of the
business due to demand from
Board member. It was an internal
pressure and Jobs simply resigned.
This clarifies the act of authentic
leadership which makes him an
influencing personality.
 In the year 1991, almost half of
Pixar's staff was fired by Steve
Jobs and took all of stocks from
employee in order to cut off the
cost of the company. This signifies
that Jobs possess analytical skill for
managing the operation of
company.
 Steve founded NeXT and Pixar
which deals with next level
computing. This was become
possible due to visionary approach
of his owner. However, these
companies were afterwards
purchased by Apple.
 Steve Jobs was named as
“Entrepreneur of the Decade” by
Inc. magazine in the year 1989.
 Pixar signed a deal with Disney for
computer animated film. This
challenged the creative skills of
Jobs and the results was Toy Story.

Operational efficiency
 At the time of incorporation of
NeXT and Pixar by Steve Jobs has
gain profits for a few years of time
and share prices are also increased
fluently. In this tear the competition
was become tough between many
companies because Steve Jobs were
introducing new products and
attracting so many customers
 In year 1997, shares of Apple are
decline so this company has
appointed Steve Jobs as a CEO
for meet out with these losses.
With the help of Steve Jobs the
company has maintained their
position again in making the
profits.

Operational efficiency (Cont)
 NeXT fire the 300 employees from
the company in operational
department and Steve Jobs has given
the analytical point. At some point of
time it become difficult for the
company to introduced new products
but with the help of Steve Job
company company had launched
many products.
 When Steve Job died he has
already launched iPhones till 8
series so the company does have
any tension up to four to five
years to earn so much profits.
However, many technologies
were introduced by Steve Jobs
which has given the strength to
company to retain in market for a
long period of time.

References
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