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APPLYING BUSIN�S SKILLS/CONCEPTS/LEADERSHIP TO STEVE JOBS CAREER

Steve Paul Jobs By: Younus Rizvi March 29, 2020

We all use technology on a daily basis and are unconscious about the individual

that made it all happen. Steve jobs is one of the founding fathers of next generation cell phones. His

technology is also used for corporate business, highly classified security and the most common

one, public use. Steve jobs was born in February, 24 1955 in the city of San francisco in the United

States of America. He was born as the first child and his parents who were in University set him up

for adoption. He was adopted by biological parents, Paul and Clara jobs. Steve was a train driver

for a railroad company, but his parents wanted their children to have a sustainable education and

moved to the city of Mountain view. Due to high costs of Reed college in Portland 1972, he was

forced to drop out with very little profit. In 1976 he moved to California he had been involved with

Woznik and created a computer and called it the Apple 1. Apple was recently launched by Steve

Jobs and Steve Wozinak, his old highschool friend, known as the co-founder, which began in 1976.

Their small shop was located in California, where they worked on revolutionizing technology, by

building the world’s first user-friendly computer. This came out to be a big success and they had

changed the way consumer technology was looked back then. They started creating computer

parts, even for Microsoft. Apple was so integreid by their first successful launch, they decided to

hire a new management team, where they introduced the first ever apple computer known as the

iMac. Yet again this product was marvelous and caught the attention of many consumers once

again. This product was released one year after the initial launch of the first user-friendly

computer. Their evolution of technology leveraged their company and started to become more

known in the world.

When Apple first started to bring in a new

management team, they had been assigned

specific tasks that play out the leadership role

from Blake and Mouton. The club manager

would be responsible for receiving feedback

from customers that use their products on a

daily-basis and use it to make better products, to

strengthen consumer and production

relationships. This is one of the biggest

leadership styles apple has implied too. A team

manager leadership style would be responsible

for collaborating ideas with each branch of the

company to make stronger relationships. As well as have a purpose to make them feel valued

based on their ideas and not underlying it. Apple does a great job on this and was awarded as the

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“Top 20 most innovative companies” in 2005. Ever since Steve Jobs has made astonishing new

inventions, his im has always been about perfection. He quotes “Be a yardstick of quality. Some

people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected”, (Boogard). These uplifting

quotes and mindsets excelled his company and raised the expectations for his employees and they

were able to learn and adapt to it. He chose to listen to himself and make decisions alone, while still

taking his employees decisions into consideration. He believed it would benefit the company more.

Communication is a key factor for Steve Jobs to manufacture and introduce successful products

and receive feedback from their users/customers and improve on them with a business meeting.

Steve Job's management were very closely related to the *followed the Teams of organizations*, in

which hands are held together around a common goal to achieve and reach beyond an expectation.

This allows more income and attention to the partnership companies and allows them to excel in

their specific business. Steve Jobs had teamed up with many companies that developed specific

computer components such as NeXT, which specialize in making a software and hardware

platform, merged in February 7, 1997. The products that are made with an outsource

(partnership), allows companies to build stronger and wealthier bonds, with minimal excessive use

of material.

Steve Jobs was a very distinctive and inclusive role model to his company. Throughout the great

success of his company, he had new people join the management and gave them a chance to teach

him his leadership ways. He started off as a relationship-oriented leader because trust was low, he

was experimenting with their ways of working on tasks and he expected an high demand to build

off a stronger relationship. Later on, as he got comfortable with his team and built a stronger

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relationship he attained the task-oriented leader,

where the task and trust is high and earlier to

complete. Looking at leadership models he had

acquired the Hersey blanchard leadership model.

His team played out the role of introducing a

product by participating and sharing ideas,

creating problems and selling solutions to it. He

gave instructions on how to introduce and make

the product in order to gain public viewership. He

was also very Delegating on his products, because

of his early successful products and the team he

worked with. The selling and telling factors were the high guidance required by the team. We can

tell Apple has a unique way to launch their new products and gain the audience eye span, with new

and improved features. His use of quality over quantity, on all of his products really gained his

customers trust and made it easier to sell products more effectively. Using this model he was very

communicative with his employees and allowed them to let him explore their next innovation,

which made it more enjoyable and effective for the company. This consists of task structure,

Authority system and work groups. Steve Jobs was very task-oriented.

The task he used to assign to his management, had made their first priority to complete them. He

assigned each task to be completed

in small work groups, these were

more effective and fun for his

management to do and complete.

He used authority over his

employees and guided them to

complete their task, this led to

effective leadership. He took

authority over everyone in order

for them to be successful with the provided guidelines. This is a simple 3 step theory that implies

Steve Jobs leadership skills. Firstly, he talks about perfection and working hard which is known as

effort. Secondly he talks about the production and its use which is known as the performance of

the work. Lastly, he talks about the rewards which are selling the product and revving service

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satisfaction, this attracts more customer traffic and revenue to the company. Although many

companies are successful and very task oriented, he had a mix of both relationships and

task-orientation, which lead to a fast leverage to success. What can we do with this information?,

we can start to improvise his skills in our workplace or even on an upcoming business. We can use

these as guides to have a successful business and

relationship with employees and customers.

WORKS CITED

Levy, Steven. “Steve Jobs.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,

20 Feb. 2021, www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Jobs.

Hensen, Ramon. “The Leadership of Steve Jobs.” Rutgers Business School-Newark

and New Brunswick,

www.business.rutgers.edu/business-insights/leadership-steve-jobs.

Boogard, Kat. “What Was Steve Jobs' Leadership Style?” RSS, 29 Mar. 2021,

www.fingerprintforsuccess.com/blog/steve-jobs-leadership-style.

“NeXT.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Mar. 2021,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT.

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