What exactly does a team need in order to be the ‘it’ team? Characteristics and the diversity of each team member is important when contributing towards their goal as a whole. Joshua Davis, author of “La Vida Robot” and Walter Isaacson, writer of the biography “Steve Jobs”, have the same opinion towards creating a superior group. Both Davis and Isaacson feel that in order to make the flawless team, members with different qualities make an ideal group of individuals that can combine and share ideas. When it comes to building an effective team, Davis believes that every team needs a leader. For example, administrators and teachers are all part of a team, working together to better students’ education, preparing them for the future. In the article, he writes the following, “Oscar Vasquez was born a leader. A senior, he’d been in ROTC since ninth grade and was planning on a career in the military… ROTC had trained Oscar well: he knew how to motivate people. He made sure that all of his team members were
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One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports the author’s perspective in the written biography written by Isaacson is “Jobs convinced Wozniak to build and sell printed circuit boards. “Jobs worked out a plan to pay a guy he knew at Atari to draw the circuit boards and then print up fifty or so” (Jackson 215). This source makes it clear that Jobs clearly was the leader in this team of two, making him more known out to the public. However, Wozniak also played a big role in the creation of Apple Inc, but Jobs was the outgoing partner that did all the business since his partner was rather shy and didn’t want to put himself out there. Jobs showed characteristics that displays his personality, making him business savvy and doubtlessly important when it came to help induce companies to support the expansion of their
One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports the author’s perspective in the written biography written by Isaacson is “Jobs convinced Wozniak to build and sell printed circuit boards. “Jobs worked out a plan to pay a guy he knew at Atari to draw the circuit boards and then print up fifty or so” (Jackson 215). This source makes it clear that Jobs clearly was the leader in this team of two, making him more known out to the public. However, Wozniak also played a big role in the creation of Apple Inc, but Jobs was the outgoing partner that did all the business since his partner was rather shy and didn’t want to put himself out there. Jobs showed characteristics that displays his personality, making him business savvy and doubtlessly important when it came to help induce companies to support the expansion of their