Abstract
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as a “paradigm case” of transformational leadership by comparing the practical met discourse of remembrances published at the time of his passing to the theoretical met discourse of transformational leadership. This assignment of transformational leadership characteristics that appeared in characterizations of Jobs in the months after his passing in October 2011. Jobs as a leader and as one whom possessed and very motivational, three key personal characteristics of a transformational leader: creative, passionate, and visionary. People also remembered Jobs as an transformational leader. However, the results also show that two important interpersonal characteristics of a transformational …show more content…
That happened even with the movie Toy Story. After Jeff Katzenberg and the team at Disney, which had bought the rights to the movie, pushed the Pixar team to make it edgier and darker, Jobs and the director, John Lasseter, finally stopped production and rewrote the story to make it friendlier. When he was about to launch Apple Stores, he and his store guru, Ron Johnson, suddenly decided to delay everything a few months so that the stores’ layouts could be reorganized around activities and not just product categories
VI. Engage Face-to-Face
Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its potential to be isolating, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by e-mail and iChat,” he told me. “That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas
VII. Stay Hungry, Stay …show more content…
Jobs's unique mix of personal characteristics made him pivotal to the rapid evolution which in recent decades created such extraordinary changes in the workplace and in the social habits of many millions. He made mistakes and he made enemies. He dropped out of university and once got sacked from the company he set up. But he was indisputably one of the outstanding founding fathers of the modern computing and electronic era. He achieved breakthroughs by employing the vision which made him one of the secular demi-gods of the electronic age. In his products and his person he was one of the coolest of the cool.He was idolised by many computer enthusiasts though much disliked by his detractors. But his computers, and later his phone and music technology, were eagerly sought after and sold in their millions.Their attraction was that they transcended the mundane level of mere usefulness to soar into the realms of the must-have.Since his early days he had looked destined to play a role in the emerging golden age of computers. He even grew up in Silicon Valley, the Californian cradle of innovation where he had an interesting and unusual early
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as a “paradigm case” of transformational leadership by comparing the practical met discourse of remembrances published at the time of his passing to the theoretical met discourse of transformational leadership. This assignment of transformational leadership characteristics that appeared in characterizations of Jobs in the months after his passing in October 2011. Jobs as a leader and as one whom possessed and very motivational, three key personal characteristics of a transformational leader: creative, passionate, and visionary. People also remembered Jobs as an transformational leader. However, the results also show that two important interpersonal characteristics of a transformational …show more content…
That happened even with the movie Toy Story. After Jeff Katzenberg and the team at Disney, which had bought the rights to the movie, pushed the Pixar team to make it edgier and darker, Jobs and the director, John Lasseter, finally stopped production and rewrote the story to make it friendlier. When he was about to launch Apple Stores, he and his store guru, Ron Johnson, suddenly decided to delay everything a few months so that the stores’ layouts could be reorganized around activities and not just product categories
VI. Engage Face-to-Face
Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its potential to be isolating, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by e-mail and iChat,” he told me. “That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas
VII. Stay Hungry, Stay …show more content…
Jobs's unique mix of personal characteristics made him pivotal to the rapid evolution which in recent decades created such extraordinary changes in the workplace and in the social habits of many millions. He made mistakes and he made enemies. He dropped out of university and once got sacked from the company he set up. But he was indisputably one of the outstanding founding fathers of the modern computing and electronic era. He achieved breakthroughs by employing the vision which made him one of the secular demi-gods of the electronic age. In his products and his person he was one of the coolest of the cool.He was idolised by many computer enthusiasts though much disliked by his detractors. But his computers, and later his phone and music technology, were eagerly sought after and sold in their millions.Their attraction was that they transcended the mundane level of mere usefulness to soar into the realms of the must-have.Since his early days he had looked destined to play a role in the emerging golden age of computers. He even grew up in Silicon Valley, the Californian cradle of innovation where he had an interesting and unusual early