Steve Jobs完整电子教案

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Steve Jobs’ Leadership Analysis

Wang Teng 3339243

HFT4295 - Leadership in the Hospitality Industry - Section RXD

TUC-FIU Cooperative School

Abstract

This essay was written to demonstrate the career history, the leadership qualities and the leadership behaviors of Steve Jobs. Through all the research that I had done, I discovered Steve Jobs’ leadership traits such as energy, social background, self-confidence and the ability of speech, and therefore Steve Jobs appears to be a directive leader and a charismatic leader. Also, I applied his leadership qualities and behaviors to the hospitality industry.

Keywords: Steve Jobs, Apple, leadership, hospitality

Table of Content Introduction (4)

Legendary Career Experience (5)

The Young Steve (5)

1976-1985 (5)

A Fresh Start (6)

Magic Show Time (6)

Leadership Traits of Steves Jobs (7)

Physical and Background Traits (7)

Personal or Ability Traits (8)

Task or Social Traits (9)

Leadership Beha viors of Steve Jobs (10)

Charismatic and Transformational Leadership Behaviors (10)

Directive Leadership Behaviors (11)

Steve In Hospitality Business (11)

Conclusion (13)

Reference (15)

Introduction

Even through we are living in the 21st centre, and with the power of the Internet, we are getting so much information everyday that we think nothing will surprise us, but it is still very hard to believe that a company can ever be so successful. Apple became the most valuable company in the world in August 11, 2011. (Markoff, 2011) Apple is a legendary company in the music, the mobile phone and the computer industry, with countless number of fans all over the world. It created the best music players -- iPods, which has a market share of 78% in the American market. (Cook, 2011) It has the No.1 music store in the world with twenty million songs waiting to be sold, and it had sold sixteen billion songs on the internet. (Cook, 2011) Macbook Air along with its operating system -- Mac OS Lion, is ranked the best laptop and the best operating system in the world. (Loftus, 2011) The iPhone 4 is the No.1 product in smart phone market with a customer satisfaction of 96%. (Cook, 2011) Apple is even richer than the American Federal Reserve, with an asset of cash of over seventy billion US dollars. (Yahoo Finance, 2011) Behind all these gorgeous data, is the creator and the soul of Apple, Steve Jobs, a man who changed the world.

Steve Jobs is a hot topic, he is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. He was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar, and he was also the largest individual shareholder of Disney. His black shirt and blue jeans became the symbol of silicon valley. The cancer that Steve Jobs had was destroying his health and he became thinner everyday, but when we look at his eyes, we can see a giant inside. Each time Steve Jobs gave a keynote about new products, the world will be shocked. If there is a word to describe Apple and Steve Jobs, the word must be “magical”.

We all love him, however, God loves him more. Steve Jobs left us at October 5, 2011. Among all the comments about his death, I like what Obama said most “ S teve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough