The alchemist steve jobs - a life story

Steve Jobsr.i.p1955-2011The only difference in doing something and not doing something is DOING SOMETHING.arifanees@gmail.com

Young Steven JobsBorn on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, CaliforniaPut up for adoption a week after birthAdoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college

EducationSkipped 5th grade Took his first electronics class in high schoolAfter school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work

Education (Cont.)Graduated high school in 1972Enrolled in Reed College in OregonDropped out after one semesterSlept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest

The Beginning of A CareerReturned to California in 1974 and was hired as a technician for AtariAttended meetings at Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club”Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers

AppleBorn on April 1st, 1976Apple I designed and prototype builtFirst single board computer with built-in video interface

Apple (Cont.)Apple II designed in the following yearOperating System loaded automaticallySmaller Components & built-in circuitryIn 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise

Smooth SailingMost investors turned Apple downRetired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to investMarkkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977

Smooth Sailing (Cont.)Became publicly traded company in 1980Launched LISA in 1983First commercial computer to use GUIUnpopular due to its few software programs and high price

Smooth Sailing (Cont.)Macintosh created to compete with PCMarketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machineVery popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days

The DownfallSales began to plungeWozniak quit Apple in 1985Board members of Apple met on May 28th, 1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve from the company

Still Looking UpAfter taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to Apple and his love for computersDecided to start his own companyFounded NeXT Computer in 1989

Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for consumersCompany slowly starts going downhill

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs was criticized for wasting money that belonged to the company in 1993Closed a NeXT factory in that FebruaryLaid off half of the employees and stopped making computers

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs had to make drastic decisionsMicrosoft purchased NeXT softwareMicrosoft came up with $150 million to stake in AppleSaved a dying company.

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs management style had drastically changedRelaxed and was open to suggestionsEmployees commented that Jobs made experimenting with electronics fun

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object Linking and EmbeddingCreated OpenDocJobs was very serious about this

Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT STEP software was being turned into Mac OS XUnder Jobs’ guidance the company increased sales Introduced the iMac and other new products

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs held the title of ICEO Very influential impact on the Apple companyBy the year 2000, he created even greater advances in new technology

The New BeginningIn early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industryLater that month, Jobs announced his return to the CEO positionInsisted on keeping his $1 annual salary

The New Beginning (Cont.)Although his salary was low, the company granted him ten million shares of Apple stock worth hundreds of millions

The New Beginning (Cont.)First project as CEO was the G4 CubeWas too expensive and didn’t satisfy a certain marketLasted only twelve months in Apple’s line-up

The New Beginning (Cont.)The next step for Steve was his newest operating system, Mac OS XThe future of Apple

The New Beginning (Cont.)Apple wanted software to sync up digital devicesWas turned down by most companiesJobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.

The New Beginning (Cont.)In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:Try out computersTest softwareMeet with salespeople This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them

Portable Audio RevolutionLess than a year after iTunes was released, Apple released the iPodOriginally only for Mac usersIn July 2002, the new iPod was available for Windows users as wellSales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods

Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunesTook over 80% of the legal music downloading market

More Successful ChangesJune 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips. This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook

More Successful Changes (Cont.)October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was introducedCould play music videos and TV showsJobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store

PixarPixar was Jobs’ second companySwept the box office with its animated filmsOn January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion

The Leadership style of Steve Jobs31

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP10/6/201132

COMPONENTS OF JOB’SLEADERSHIPFOCUSPASSIONINNOVATIONINVOLVEMENTEFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION10/6/201133

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. 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 himHis 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.10/6/201134

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower - Steve jobs10/6/201135

“FROM CRITICS DESK…”“his habit of making decisions and then suddenly changing his mind has been given as part of the reason he is difficult to work for”-brainmass“Jobs has got an aggressive and demanding personality”.-critics“He is one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs”.–Fortune Magazine“Jobs would have made an excellent king of France with his compelling and larger-than-life persona”- JefRaskin, former collegue. “Some times he acts anti gates, & some times he requests Microsoft to develop software for their computers, that is weird”.-critics10/6/201136

“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” – Steve Jobs10/6/201137

HONORS1985: 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 Magazine2007: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame2009: Jobs was selected the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers on a survey by Junior Achievement10/6/201138

Steve Jobs Quotes"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs' pitch to John Sculley, the Pepsi-Cola CEO Jobs brought on to run Apple (Sculley later pushed Jobs out of Apple) "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will." 10/6/201139

Steve Jobs Quotes"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.““None. It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.” -- Jobs responding to whether he did market research for the iPad10/6/201140

Steve Jobs Quotes"I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building." "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." -- Jobs commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 10/7/201141

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsThe personal computer as we know it - Although many of us tend to think of Bob Gates as the grandfather of the PC, thanks to Windows, it was actually Jobs who came up with the kind of operating system that's now ubiquitous in both PCs and Macs. When IBM came out with their first PC, Jobs countered with the Macintosh in 1984, which was the first computer to feature a mouse, pull-down menus, and icons. Before that, you had to use a command-line interface -- remember, C:/ ... etc.? (I used to play a Winnie the Pooh game on one of those!)10/7/201142

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsiPods - If you grew up owning or using a turntable or even a cassette tape, do you think you would have ever imagined having a device that allows you to hold 40,000 songs in your pocket? 'Nuff said.10/7/201143

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsPixar movies - When Jobs bought George Lucas' computer-graphics division in 1986, Pixar was born. Soon, the company was on track to develop films like ToyStory, which ushered in a completely new and innovative form of animated entertainment.10/7/201144

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsiTunes - Sure, we all flirted with Napster at some time or another, but in 2001, the way we listened to and bought music changed forever, thanks to Jobs. 10/7/201145

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsiPads- Interestingly, Jobs said that he started developing the first-gen iPad (which was released last year) before the iPhone. Makes sense, being that the technology is practically identical now. But the first tablet Apple came out with was the Newton MessagePad 100 in 1993. Clearly, Jobs always was ahead of the curve in the tablet revolution.10/7/201146

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsiPads- Interestingly, Jobs said that he started developing the first-gen iPad (which was released last year) before the iPhone. Makes sense, being that the technology is practically identical now. But the first tablet Apple came out with was the Newton MessagePad 100 in 1993. Clearly, Jobs always was ahead of the curve in the tablet revolution.10/7/201147

SEVEN WONDERS OF Steve JobsiPhones - Droid and BlackBerry lovers can say whatever they want, but no smartphone had ever changed people's lives the way this phone has in the past 5 years it has been around. Jobs completely revolutionized cellphones forever.10/7/201148

ConclusionDespite the pancreatic cancer diagnosed in 2007, Jobs gave the world its 21st century wonders; IPhone and IPad.Apple’s business share grew from 5 billion dollars to 358 billion dollars from 2000-2010

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