Steve Jobs, born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, and deceased October 5, 2011. Regarded as an influential, innovative world leader, and visionary of our time, and the Wall Street Journal named him “Person of the Decade,” and in 2007, Fortune Magazine listed Jobs as the most powerful businessperson out of the top twenty-five. President Barack Obama (2011) stated at the time Steve Jobs passed, “The World has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device that he invented.” Steve Jobs was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple, Inc., and founder and CEO when the Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar. Steve Jobs remained on the Board of Directors at Pixar, and was one of Pixar’s largest shareholders. Jobs did not think the way the rest of us think, which is why Apple is the way it is today.
Why Steve Jobs as a creative thinker
Steve Jobs knew what he wanted, with a creative, brilliant mind for advertising. Steve Jobs' contributed significantly to entrepreneurs, and emphasized the value of design, and at the same time, Jobs understood the essential part aesthetics would play in appealing to the public. During the 1970’s, Steve Jobs helped in establish and popularize the personal computer, and in the 1980’s he saw the computers potential in the commercial market place, earning Jobs a devoted following as his forward thinking and product design is not only functional in both the personal and commercial arenas. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple they were close to bankruptcy, but his involvement in editing the “Think Different” ad was the refocus Apple needed. (Dan, 2011).
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Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple computers, was influenced by the very same transcendental ideas expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, namely self-reliance and determination. Rather than conforming to the accepted path of success, Steve Jobs chose to do things his own way, with determination. He dropped out of college and began only taking classes he found interesting, then he starte...
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Steve Jobs left the world inspiring millions, and touching the hearts of anyone that appreciates technology. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, written by Karen Blumenthal, is an inspiring book about the extraordinary life of Steve Jobs. It tells a very interesting story and provides an abundant amount of information about Steve Jobs that others would not have known. Many people can identify Steve Jobs, but not everyone knows exactly what he did, how he did it, the struggles he went through, the great things he did, and his outrageous personality. People mainly know him as “the man who created apple” but he plays a bigger role and character than that. He changed the face of technology and inspired a generation. This book outlines the important events and details of Steve Jobs’ life. Blumenthal describes the ups and downs in Jobs’ life, and explains how he became one of the most influential people in the world. It shows how Jobs’ changed the world. It portrays an inspiring story
“How to effectively lead an organization depends on many factors such as the organizational culture, the behavior of the followers, and the personal traits of the leader” (Toma and Marinescu 1). Leadership is a multidimensional concept essential in every sector of society. It can be described as the social interaction between a leader and his/her follower. Steve Jobs’ ability to lead had a direct effect on personal computing. A fundamental mantra of Steve’s leadership method was simplicity. Less was more, yet sometimes something so simple could be more difficult than something complex. Creating a product as a minimalist as possible was crucial to targeting the largest market and as a result Apple Inc. product designs merged function into form. It promoted the idea that technology could be used by more than just hobbyists or computer geeks. Promoting such an idea was essential to the early success of Apple in the world of technology as they catered to simplifying the lives of
When he returned to Apple as CEO, he helped write the “Think Different” ads. Consciously or not, he was describing himself. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” In his beginning address for a class at Stanford University, he inspired the students to follow their own dreams and not to get up in living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs (CEO and chairman of Apple Inc.) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He was born in February 24, 1955 and founded Apple Inc. with his high school buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976. But later in 1976, when Apple was about to bankrupt he returned to it as advisor and Interim CEO. He made Apple profitable from near bankruptcy by 1998 (Walter Isaacson, 2013). From (1996-2011), he proved himself as one of the best engineering leaders of the world and made Apple the most innovative company of the world.
Connecting the dots of life: Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, gave the commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University on how you may not know it now, but everything connects in the end, even dropping out of college. In his short 15-minute speech, Jobs outlines the ways that his college struggles, company losses, and cancer challenges motivated him and how the graduates can learn from his life. "You can't connect the looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards," Jobs told the graduates.
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. was born February 24, 1995, and died of cancer on October 5, 2011. Apple Inc., and considered a niche player for much of its history, is the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization as of this writing. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs made a vast amount of accomplishment in technology which has improved many people’s lives across the nation, he was an exemplary leader, and the utmost CEO ever. Steve Jobs changed several industries in so many ways. According to the article it states, “Steve Jobs was certainly a willful and driven leader,
The story “Steve Jobs, the Man Who Thought Different,” written by Karen Blumenthal, describes the obstacles, achievements, and important events that changed Steve Jobs’ life into creating his company, Apple. One reason why I wanted to read this book is because I was curious to know about how and where Apple started. Whether it was an iPad, iPod, or MacBook, it seemed to me that almost everyone had some sort of Apple product, and I wanted to discover more about how Steve Jobs created it all. After reading the book, I learned that throughout Jobs’ life, he persevered through many challenges and hardships. I learned that he inspired people to become things that they never thought they could be.
The concept of the brand is built around the slogan 'Think different’ (Linzmayer, 2004). A. BACKGROUND History The history of Apple began thirty years ago, when the two friends, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak decided to found their own company for the production and release of computers. The company not only produces the number of highly technological devices, but also has a great brand ideology lying behind.
Sixty-two years ago on February twenty-fourth a baby boy was given up for adoption in San Francisco. This boy was Steve Jobs, and while he was smart, was also very directionless. In 1976, he started Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak, but not before experimenting with several different pursuits first (“Steve Jobs”). In his parents’ garage in 1976, Jobs became the cofounder of Apple, in ‘85 he was fired from his own company, he came to the rescue in ‘97 to save the company which was on the brink of bankruptcy, and created the world’s most valuable company, all before his untimely death in 2011; his life is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large. Aside from the multi-billion dollar company that Jobs had created, he helped to update and change multiple other industries as well: personal computing, animated movies, retail stores, digital publishing, just to name a few (Isaacson). According to Sue
Steve Jobs is a very successful entrepreneur, businessman, family man, and college drop-out. Many of his companies are legacies, for example Apple, Pixar, and NeXT. Steve Jobs is inspiring to college students because his story can relate to all young people that feel discouraged in classes or lost in life, just as he was.
With his unique love for technology, Steve Jobs changed the world with his revolutionary innovations, developments, and extremely successful companies. He made communication faster, people’s lives easier, and invented many famous products. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California (Ed. Sheila Dow and Jaime E. Noce). Throughout his high school career, Jobs loved electronics. He was constantly wiring the house with speakers or building frequency counters with his Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of students who met weekly to learn about what HP was working on. One day the club members took a trip to see firsthand at what HP was developing at the time. That was the day Jobs saw his very first desktop computer (Walter Isaacson 16-17).
Steve Jobs imagined life as a big puzzle that had to be put together without looking at a picture. Being a kid who was adopted right after being born is not something many kids have to deal with, but like Jobs, many that are put in that situation become successful people. Not knowing what the future holds is okay because no one picks their first choice even after doing it many times. By introducing computers, smartphones and music-downloading programs, it allowed many people to connect in a whole new way. Steve Jobs was an influential American because he helped develop the technology industry and created things no one would have ever thought of.
Steve Jobs founder of Apple and Pixar was an iconic leader who invented the Macintosh computer, a PC for the masses. He went on to create the music players and mobile phones that everyone loved, and his tiny cellphones were packed with so much processing power, they operated like miniature Macs. With a foray into computer animations with Pixar, he developed Toy Story, such a high quality movie that industry-leader Disney snapped up the company. Jobs’ final innovation was the iPad, tablet computer to displace the PC. Jobs wanted a tool to expand the brain’s processing power with all the world’s information available on a small screen. He wasn’t afraid to cannibalize his own products.