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International management

Steve Jobs

Dr
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as well as a transformational
leader, innovator, motivator who dedicated his whole life in innovation, who died in 2011
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He had an uncanny ability
in his characteristics to attract people to follow his vision
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His vision was unattainable, impossible in others eyes that he made it happen
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The purpose of the study is to critically analyse two article written by
different author about Steve Jobs
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The main objective of the report is to assess these two article and support the
stronger article
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Introduction …………………………………………………………………
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Management abilities of Steve Jobs…………………………………………
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1 Planning……………………………… 04
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Leadership style of Steve Jobs………………………………………………
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Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility of Steve Jobs…………………… 08
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Reference……………………………………………………………………
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Introduction
Apple Inc
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Apple designs, manufactures and markets the computers, communication and media
devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook etc
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He turn the dying Apple Company to the world leader multinational
company in the technology industry at a glance
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In 2010, an American Writer and Editor Philip Elmer stated that, ‘’ Steve Jobs
named CEO of the decade’’
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He was the master of
converter of our digital age, was tech inspiration (Young and Simon, 2005)
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They believe Steve Jobs was a creative genius, a transformational leader who
changed our world, our life, refined the whole technology industry
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His innovation created positive
impact in people’s life, way of thinking
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Writer believes
that Steve Jobs innovation iPhone, iPad etc
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But he believes that assemble of all features and design is
innovative
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Products are
derivative, innovated from accumulated wisdom and all credit goes to productive abilities of
many other people
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1 Planning
Planning means the tactics, showing direction or making decisions towards the success
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A person who was
behind all of the succession of Apple Inc
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When
he was returned back to the Apple Inc
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This magical man turned a
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rotten Apple into a fresh Apple because of his successful planning
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Company’s efficiency, and accuracy depends on planning
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Jobs always tried to see
future and differentiate the products than the competitors
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Jobs plan was to make product simple,
easy to use and different than others (Strohmeyer, 2011)
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He has also been overseeing of the
development of the products and updated iPhone, iPad, iPod and MacBook etc
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Steve Jobs left plan of his future product for the next generation, for the next
decades (Thornhil and Gardner, 2011)
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Bob Sanders (n
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) stated that, ‘’Steve Jobs made mistakes which
is unforgiveable’’
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He
made some mistakes in his planning
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As a successful planner his few planning mistakes
are covered with his innovation
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Apple Inc
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He had strong sense of taking responsibility and control of organisation which
stemmed from his controlling personality (Catalyst Performance and Leadership
Development, 2013)
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Effective control on a company can gives more benefits to
the company, can keep on right track towards the goal achievement
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An example, Jobs
imposed strict agenda on the executives that every executive from all level has to organise a
meeting for weekly tone setting and review of every product which are under development
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Controlling is the powerful management skills where Steve Jobs utilised
properly, he established a benchmark, standard how thing is done
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3 Organising
In a leadership style it is essential to motivate and encourage employees as well as need a
good organisational skill
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Steve Jobs organisational skills was different
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When he came back to the Apple, Jobs found Apple working on 40 projects and
he cut it up into four
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Steve
Jobs management style was different, he didn’t followed the regular management theory or
traditional theory
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Apple recruit expertise employees not experience employees and Jobs
preferred an expert control in every functional area where well where well managers are
placed
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Moral of the story, Jobs was stubborn,
different than others, his thinking was different that’s why he played his organisational
management skills in his unique way which we can call an unorthodox management style
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Motivational skills of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader for his employees with extraordinary motivational
skills
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A successful motivator doesn’t need to manage his team
or employees rather than remove all the obstacles from the way which stands against them
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He was a good story teller
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However, Jobs sometime behave rude on his team, yelled on
employees which can demotivate people to do follow him
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He shouted,
‘’you guys don’t know what you are doing’’ that time Apple was realising new version of
iMac (Love, 2011)
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There
is good and bad both side in the people’s characteristics
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Jobs created future oriented story and he described
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others future in his story which people believed enough to do what he encourage them to do
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Steve Jobs was great
marketer, master of motivator and was a great pitch man
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Innovation and creativity of Steve Jobs
The recent business world is more rational than previous because of increasing pressure of
globalized competition
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Creativity is necessary for solving problem, increasing productivity in a
business
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His great innovation is
iPhone, iPad, iPod etc
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Jobs creativity was the simplicity, knowing the exact things what he wants and
applying institution (Dan, 2011)
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Jobs
showed people an innovation can be small but could be great, also showed the way of
thinking, how to unlock creativity from the mind
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The leadership style of Steve Jobs
Many great leaders have led the companies or business organisations to improve, to make
unique, and to make company leader in the market, to growth and prosperity in the different
ways with their different leadership style
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His motivating force was without parallel in his
leadership style
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Steve jobs just played an active role in the Apple Company and shaped Apple into a
technology giant
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Many tests,
models, theories and principles that can be applied to understand a leader or his unique style
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There is a leadership study
test is Myers-Briggs type Indicator (MBTI) which defines a person how he gathers
information and evaluate information for solving a problem to make decision (Daft, 2011)
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just like a natural leader
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Jobs always attracted people with his success
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stories that express Jobs was a good story teller
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(Toma and Marinescu, 2013)
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His exceptional interpersonal abilities can make followers invested in his vision
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The People also remember himself as an innovator, which is not just for the
transformational leadership but also for that reflection which created impact in the technology
industry
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He was tough, he pushed people to their last limits with his inspiration
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Steve jobs was a true leader, one of the most compelling
leader, an example of natural leader and it is impossible to replace his place
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He made Type Gods of us all’’ (Garfield, 2011)
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The person who took
challenges to change the whole world and gave the inspiration to the generation
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One of his revolutionary invention of the history is typeface and for
the first time he introduced the using of typeface on computer
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He
dedicated his life to our world
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Steve Jobs dedicated his life to
give us a device iPhone which is a real choice
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Jobs always inspired people to follow their heart to get
success
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Jobs could see the future
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His strategic leadership, strategic vision, risk calculation turned a company
into one the world leader company in technology
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One article written by Yaron Brooks and Don Watkins supported
Jobs as a leader, creative genius whose innovation changes the world, who transformed the
world as a transformational leader
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This study support first article written by Taron Brooks and Don Watkins
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A product could be derivative but the idea comes from one’s mind and we call him
creative
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He improved and enriched so many lives with his
innovations
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His way of thinking
was different
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[online] Creativity fo lofe
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Brook, Y
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Emler, P
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Steve Jobs’s secret legacy: Dying Apple boss left plans
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