Life After Steve Jobs Life Without Him Analysis

Apple While running Apple, Jobs started to have health problems. In the article, Life After Steve Jobs: However Will Apple Manage Without Him, Dempsey quotes the executive team of Apple, “It will be a big challenge – the company is already on one of the longest winning streaks in consumer electronics history, dating back to Jobs’s return in 1996” (2011). Jobs’ didn’t leave Apple when he was sick. He just reduced some of his duties so he could focus on his health. When he did this, he still had a lot of ideas to offer the company. During this time, he took a few “leaves of absence,” and “During them all, apple performed excellently” (Dempsey, 2011). An Interesting fact about Apple is that back in 2011 when this article was written, nine people on the board of directors have been with the company for more than a decade (Dempsey, 2011). Because of the long tenure of the Board of Directors, the success of Apple should continue to grow. They have had much success in the cellphone industry. The iPhone is one of the best, if not the best phone made today. IPhone dominates the cell phone industry like none other. I bought an iPhone 4s when they first came out. Once my contract was up I decided to try a different brand of phone. Once that contract is up, I am going to go back to the …show more content…
Nair writes about the different management styles of these three successful CEO’s. Each one of these people brought something to the company that helped grow it and made it into what it is today. For example, Dr. Nair writes about John Sculley’s management style as being an “autocratic nature” (2012). He classified Steve Jobs’ management style as “aggressive” (Nair, 2012). For the third person he mentions in the article, he mentioned his management style as “methodical” (Nair, 2012). It takes many people to make a company successful. It is very impressive that all three of these CEO’s were able to make Apple a thriving