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The Leadership style of 

Steve Jobs 

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- Team

Hammerheads

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Present Members

Sneha Sreedharan

Ankit Mohanty

Pratiksha Chindaliya

Ashish Tapadia

Neetu Sinha

Varun PatodiaMadhuri Sawant

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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life

selling sugared water or do you want the

chance to change the world?” 

-- Steve Jobs, when luring Pepsi’s John Sculley to

 join apple

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BIOGRAPHY

o Born on February 24, 1955 and adopted by Paul & Clara Jobs.

o Worked with HP for summer internship after High School.

o Dropped out of college after the very first semester.

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1976: Started apple computers with Steve Wozniak in 1976.o 1984: Introduced Revolutionary Macintosh the market.

o 1985: was forced to resign by the board of directors of Applecomputers.

o 1986: Founded Next Computers

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1986: Co-founded Pixar Animation Studio.o 1997: Next computers was sold to Apple & Jobs became the CEO.

o 2001: launched revolutionary ipod

o 2007: Introduced 3G iphone, first of its kind in the market.

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COMPONENTS OF JOB’S 

LEADERSHIP

• FOCUS

• PASSION

• INNOVATION

• INVOLVEMENT

• EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By thetime you get it built, they'll want something new” – Steve Jobs 

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HONORS

• 1985: National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan with

Steve Wozniak(the first people to ever receive the honor)

• 1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category (the Samuel S.

 Beard Award ). 

• 2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune

 Magazine 

• 2007: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria

Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame

• 2009: Jobs was selected the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers on

a survey by Junior Achievement

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JOB’S LEADERSHIP

• Like a transformational leader, he focuses on "transforming" others to help

each other, to look out for each other, to be encouraging and harmonious,

and to look out for the organization as a whole.

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At Apple, he is seen as a leader whose brilliance and idealistic vision of "providing computers as a tool to change the world," drew other talented

people to him

• His Leadership creates valuable and positive change in the followers. 

• In his leadership, he enhances the motivation, morale and performance of his

follower group. Some people also categorize him as a charismatic leader.

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Lesson # 1: Simplify

Simple can be harder than Complex

Requires a lot of hard work

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Lesson # 2: The power of “No” 

Killed many products

Focus on Cell Phone market

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Lesson # 3: Money is over valued

“ Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t

matter to me… going to bed saying we have

done something wonderful…that’s what

matters to me” 

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Lesson # 4: It’s not what you say;

it’s how you say it

Perception becomes reality

Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives. 

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Lesson # 5: Sell dreams, not products

“You can't just ask customers what they want

and then try to give that to them. By the time

you get it built, they'll want something new” 

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Lesson #6: Recognise good Ideas

Apple did not create the mouse, but

recognised it and integrated it.

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Lesson #7: Eat your own lunch

before someone else does.

Letting go of the familiar and embracing theunknown is a real test of leadership.

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Lesson #8: Strive for perfection

“ Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t

used to an environment where excellence is

expected.” 

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Lesson #9: Small teams

The Original Macintosh team had 100

members.

Because Jobs belief was that he could only

remember 100 names.

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Lesson # 10: Follow your heart

“If today were the last day of my life, would I

want to do what I am about to do today?” And

whenever the answer has been “No” for too

many days in a row, I know I need to change

something.” 

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader

and a follower- Steve jobs

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