Positive Leadership
"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better" - Steve Jobs.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" - Steve Jobs.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" - Steve Jobs.
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Jobs was able to negotiate with Mike Markkula for a $250,000 investment and he negotiated with Paul Terrell to sell the Apple One.
"He also always went after only the best technologies and people for products" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "I think the smartest thing he ever did was get Mike Markkula involved" - Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari. "He would have a vision, he would infect other people with that vision, and get them to be fellow people on that path for them to create the vision" - Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari.
"He had an ability to, you know, look at a complex situation and distill it to fundamentals and with lightning speed, he always zeroed in on what was most important" - Marty Ringle Interview, Chief Information Officer at Reed College.
"Everybody could see in Steve Jobs this unobstructable vision of getting from one place to another" - Ronald Wayne, Co-Founder of Apple. "He had the ability to move people and ideas around like pieces on a chess board" - Ronald Wayne, Co-Founder of Apple.
Steve Jobs created Apple. His perfectionism and persistence aided him in making the company stellar.
"Steve Jobs was good at turning an invention into a product" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "Persistence and confidence that he was in a position of control [made him a good leader]" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "And once he left, the company went into the pits, and it wasn't until he came back that the company started up again and became the enterprise that it is today" - Ronald Wayne, Co-Founder of Apple.
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The Macintosh became a huge success after Jobs returned to the company.
"He spent immense time thinking of products the way he would like them. He designed them for himself, and not for others, and that was his great strength in creating excellent products" - Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple. "Regarding the Macintosh, Steve was continually focused on hiring a great team" - Heidi Roizen Interview, Apple Employee. Jobs purchased a graphics division from George Lucas and turned it into the major animation studio, Pixar.
"His personality, his drive, and an unwillingness to yield in the face of difficulties [made him special as a leader]..." - Ronald Wayne, Co-Founder of Apple. |
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Click to watch Steve Jobs talking about the world and how to change it. (Source: https://www.youtube.com) |