Leadership Traits Of Steve Jobs

Leadership Traits Of Steve JobsCharisma is a God given gift that few volume possess, he is one of them. God non only gives him this gift, but also gives him the magic to attract the public which is usu every last(predicate)y the character of provocative evangelist and politician. He is a typical Ameri fuck-style hero, after some(prenominal)(prenominal) ups and downs he is still around, like Hemingway said in The Old Man and the Sea A gay can be destroyed but non defeated. He and his friend bring to passd a legend in electronic word, bring the world to a someoneal reckoner era. But at the peak of his course he was blocked, his life fells from the peak to the bottom, but 12 years later, he comeback , to chute an other(a) legend. Your era is limited, so dont waste it living somebody elses life, says Steve Jobs. From the day he was born(p) on February 24, 1955, St nonwithstanding Paul Jobs was on his own. As the CEO of apple Computer and CEO and Chairman of Pixar, Jobs is today recognized as one of the top attracters and is worth an estimated $4.4 billion.He is a successful example of in both calculating machine and entertainment industries, his story impress me a lot so I decide to write this paper, mainly for unearth the factors that lead him to so mevery success and his distinctive characters that make him such a charismatic person. I ordain first give a brief introduction ab give away his childhood and background information and his c arr, then I allow for list and explain his major leadership traits and behaviors that make him an idol. The last give be the application of Steve mulls leadership in hospitality assiduity.snapshots of Steve JobsBorn of APPLESteve Jobs was born in San FranciscoFebruary 24, 1955, the moment he was born, he became a orphanhe was ruthlessly abandoned by the university professor father and the decadent artists mother. Luckily, a lonely couple who dont has any kids adopt him. When Jobs is a kid, he is smart, nau ghty, wanton, and frequently come up with mischief, nevertheless he gets outstanding academic records. At that time, Jobs lived near the famous Silicon vale where many of his neighbors are Silicon Valley veteran of Hewlett-Packard, under the influence of these commonwealth, he fall in love with electronic. The first time he truism the computer is in a party of HP employee, and began to crazy about it. When he was in the junior high, he met Stephen Gary Wozniak (Aug. 11 1950) who is five years of age(p) than him and latterly became the most important person in his career. Woz is the president of e-club and also experience great interest in electronics so the cardinal hit it off. They founded apple Computer together eight years later. When he was 19 as a freshman of college, he suddenly came up with an idea to get a job in a computer game company and drop the rail. Soon after, he became interested in Buddhism quit the job and travel afield to India to be the apprentice of the master. After he fails he came back to USA and work in the previous company to be an engineer. After many setbacks, he finally decided to settle down and work on his interests as before. With Woz jobs spend day and night in his garage doing all kinds of experiment and aspiration about having a personal computer. After exploring the securities industriousness he found out, computer at that time are all giant computer for mercantile usage and quite expensive. So they think about developing a personal computer by themselves, but the corn part of the computerthe 8080 chip be $270 and wont sell to the individual client other than public company. Finally, they find another 6502 chip 6502 which almost has the same quality with the chip 8080 made by inter company and the prize if much(prenominal) lower, it only cost $20 for each piece.They went back to the garage with the chip and starts their innovation of computer world. After several weeks, they finally finish their first piece of worka personal computer. But at that time they dont what their work means to the future electronic world, it is the first personal computer and is a brand new concept to most of the people by that time. All of their friends was so shocked and Steve and his friend tried everything they can to raise bills for the bulk production. On the fools day of 1976, Jobs and Woz and one of Jobs friends Ronald Wayne together sign a contract and decide to establish the apple companies with the well know logo an apple bit by somebody. And the computer itself was named as the Apple IAbandoned by the company he establishedAt that time Apple didnt pay off a good business, even though the computer is quite amazing for those who love electronic, for the common person they dont know what this machine used for. Their first large order is a 50 one made by a salesman. And then they began to receive more and more orders, and Jobs began to consider of bulk production. Unfortunately, few people would like t o invest until a successful salesman provide a huge amount of loan to them and help them develops a business plan. On the first computer fair held on the west coast, Apple II attracted so much attention and thousands of customers crowd around their exhibition hope to buy one.Apple came to a peak in 1980 when the company went public. All the shares were sold out within an hour, and Steve Jobs became one of the richest men in USA.He receives the National Technology Medal tending(p) by President Ronald Reagan. However failure figurems always comes with huge success, Steves business philosophy always differs from other people and the IBM began to grow up swallow apples market share quickly. Nearly everyone think its Steves fault to have such a bad business. On September 17, 1985 he quit his job, leave the company he set up.He asseverate to sell the hardware and software together as a package and this stop the companys expansion speed do everything by themselves, that is one of the b asiss why he fail.December 17, 1996 is a remarkable day for Apple and the entire computer industry. Steve Jobs came back and with an even greater passion on Apple, because he never forgets his dream. By the time he went back he start to reform and restructure the traditional operation and administration in the company. To everybodys amazement, he picks up the relationship with Microsoft which is the biggest competitor at that time. Just like before, he spent a lot of effort inventing new computers. His effort pays off until iMac, a brand new design computer occurred in the market with the famous motto I think, therefore iMac.He always keeps himself busy and company start to make profit again. Before he came back companys balance show a negative number of one billion but by the time 1999 the balance show a positive number of 300 million, at the same time iMac II shock the computer market again people began to regard him with spare respect.Outstanding leadership traits of Steve JobsP hysical and Background TraitsSteve Jobs is adopted as referred in the introduction part, this quite influence his personality formulation of his integral childhood, Steve is so clever that he recognized he was adopted when he is very young, this makes him feels it is more dependable of himself than others, because even his biological parents abandon him. In this berth he began to become more and more independent and hate the regulation from others and tends to make every decision by himself. For instance, even if his family is not that rich, he insist to go to a private school which charge high fees to study in the best microelectronic school at that time. To everyones surprise, he quit the school which he spent so much effort to get in because he think the homework is stupid and waste of time. Even the school ignore him, he still cheque in the dormitory learn by himself and do the experiment. At last he even cant stand stay in the school, he goes out the campus and get a job in HP.Another trait that make him so success maybe because his environment he stay during his childhood. His family leaves near the famous silicon valley where many great electronic masters work and this affect him so much that he accustomed to it and cant help himself out. Whats more, he even lives next to an engineer works in the HP fraternity and act as his mentor when he is young. This man is worth mention not only because he lead Steve into the magic electronic world but also he introduce him a job in HP and this is so important for Steve because it help Steve to know more about electronic and the business.Personality and Ability TraitsPower of dominance. Steve Jobs dominance everything during work including the event process of production and all employees. No matter you are a common person or a computer genius he can always dominant you, for most people testamenting or have to obey his direction. For those who insist not follow his idea, he will use everything he can to def eat you to obey his commander. For example, he always question people like, Do you really believe you are right? most people will lose confident at this moment and for those who dont compromise, he will try his best to find out the flow in your work, and gradually destroy your authority and believe he is the person that you have to obey. Steve Jobs use nearly every psychological skill that helps leaders to control others and maintain the leaders dominance. It usually takes two steps to control a person, first, he will use some frightening or even rude way destroy the persons confident makes the person feel like a helpless child. Then, build a parent image for himself to guide him, after these two steps the person will perform in the way Steve told him and grant his own success to Steves great guidance.Jobs have very high skill in giving speech and presentation. in that location are mainly 7 techniques that Jobs has learned about inspiring his consultation he use all of them to wo w his employees, customers, investors, or anyone else he need to motivate. First, Sell dreams, not products. Steve Jobs define his mission as changing the world. When iPod appears on the market in 2001, Jobs said, In our own small way were going to make the world a better place. Where most people see the iPod as a music player, Jobs sees it as tool to enrich peoples lives. SecondReveal a Holy Smokes moment. There is always one water armored combat vehicle moment in Steve Jobs presentation. For example, when Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air, what do people remember? They recall that he take computer out from an envelope The image of a computer sliding in an envelope was immediately unveiled in Apple ads and on the Apple website. The water cooler moment had run according to plan.Share the stage. Few companies are as closely associated with their founders as Apple is with Steve Jobs. But on stage Steve Jobs is far from a one-man show. Jobs introduces partners or customers in every major presentation. If they cant physically share the stage with him, he will roll video clips and testimonials about Apples products. He also introduces employees who deliver sections of the presentation. Whether its designer Jonathan Ive or marketing chief Phil Schiller, employees with particular expertise in one area often share the stage with Jobs. Your audience craves variety. Give it to them. They also want to see teamwork. Show it to them.Task and Social TraitsHe has the greatest motivation in his work. First 3year when he back to Apple he didnt get any money from the company which equals to stock worth $500 million and insist works 90 hours a week. So, it is the passions on make unique products that are outstanding and change the perspective for consumers. And never give up the passion on Apple even when he caught cancer.Like all of the successful leaders, Jobs has great sociability. When Jobs leaves apple and began to set up a new company and try to get a bank to cooperate, he c alls the chairman of Citibank, even it can be done by a manager in a branch-bank, the chairman met him help him solve the problem. Whats more, he also does some charities and get by new product to those who he admire by himself. All of these behavior enhance his affected his influence in the public.Outstanding Negotiation Skill - tenor for perfectionismLeadership behavior of Steve JobsDirective leadership behaviorsBase on so many anecdotes of Steve Jobs no matter positive or negative, we can clearly see he belongs to directive leaders. He seldomly listen to others opinion and even name others idea as stupid. Like most directive leaders, he set up strict rules to his employee. Those who fail to meet his expectation will be reprimanded. In his mind everyone should listen to his command, not only the employee but also the member of the board. The understanding why he leaves apple in the early years is also caused by his directive or even someone calls egocentric. By that time, Apple doesnt have very good business because he insists to develop both software and hardware all by themselves and some other failure decision. While other computer companies like IBM quickly develop and gradually eat Apples market. His directive leadership behaviors annoy the board finally decide to kick him out. Even though the directive leadership brings him a lot of trouble, but his success is also base on it. He knows what the plan is and how it will work. He is so directive that every employee should follow his commander and do in his way with no excuse otherwise they will be dishonored in public. When we are surf the internet with a comfortable laptop or enjoy a game using a multi-touch screen cellphone in a subway, we will find out its Jobs directive and perfectionism that make our life so interesting.4.2 Charismatic and transformational leadership behaviorsMagic of the culture is gather a classify of people and create a super power. Jobs is the kind of leader who can create s uch kind of cultural to increase the coherence of the team.1981 Jobs form a new group for the Macintosh computer, until 1982 he gets 20 member in his group and all of them are shrewd, capable, and full of passion like a group of pirate he is the pirate chieftains. He also held a party to implement this culture, in the party he gave everyone a T-shirt with a slogan on the box says 90 Hours A Week And Loving It He also add some sentence for some people to let them feel how important they are for the company, and some even higher level engineers can even have big meal in the cabin. He create the pirate culture not for fun, his real goal is to motivate the group to work hard to shock the world on May 16, 1983 when the computer fair would be held. All the members flavor forward to the advent of products and value the product better than their life. By spreading the pirate culture he gets a highly motivated group and reaches his goal.He knows how to convince others in in many ways inclu ding humiliation and challenging. His language is very irresistible both in speech or when negotiate with investors. Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world? this sentence which is abounding in riot governs John Sculley the CEO of Pepsi defect to Apple. This sentence looks like a compliment and also a humiliation, it stimulate Sculley and he suffer from it for several days thought process if he not accept jobs invitation, he will wander weather he made a right decision. In the Inaugural Sulley addresses, the only reason he work for apple is to work with Steve Jobs.Steve Jobs in hospitality industryEven though there are essential differences between hospitality industry and electronics industry, but leadership is relevant. All the industries are managed by people and most essential work is done by person, so leaders of these two industry must sharing some characters or trait with each other. Hospitality industry as a labor intensive industry requires more stringy and skillful leader compared to other industry. Learning from others or even other industries becomes a shot cut for many leaders who want to improve themselves trail skills. Steve jobs as a legend of the electronics industry must be outstanding in leading a company or have some special ability to improve the efficiency of management. After analyzing and abstracting the basic leadership traits and leadership behavior of steve jobs, lets take a further step in exploring the application of steve jobs leadership character in hospitality industry and find out how the current management methods in hospitality industry can be improved.As a referred previously in this paper, he is the one who born to change the world. Which means his major character of his leading attributes is about innovation. This character really helps him and Apple go with shows outstanding and produces cutting-edge products. Each time Apple introduce new product into the market, there will be a huge purchase wrap appear. As for hospitality industry, is innovation important in big decision making process or even daily operation? The answer will be yes. Implementing innovation in hospitality industry usually happens on the international franchising. In order to adjust itself to a new environment, a leader who have the spirit of innovation will be needed. Not only for the product adjusting but also the service concept changing. Take an example of KFC to expatiate my opinion, as we all know KFC which is one of the most famous fast food company in actually china comes from USA, but KFC seems dont have that much fans in USA compared with China. But when the head company made a decision to penetrate into China market they make huge innovation to both their product and brand image. This turns out to be a big success. From this point of view, Steve jobs leading method is perfectly suit for hospitality industry.When people who had the experience o f working with Jobs were asked to conclude him will always refer to his charisma, like some will say the only reason I work in Apple Company is to work with Steve Jobs. Or, his word seem have some magic that you cant refuse he will let you believe he is the only person that will lead you to success. This is a symbol of charismatic or transformational leadership. Jobs even been described as a textbook of charismatic leader who is always assertive, dynamic, outgoing, and often forceful. These characters become more and more apparent as he grows up. Hospitality as a business mainly about produce guest blessedness has a high demand of this kind of leading style. Hotels need motivated employee to produce high guest satisfaction, and this can be handled perfectly by a charismatic leader. When hotel managers trying to motivate their employees into a good service attitude and positive mood, the manager himself should first behave dynamically and be outgoing so that the employees can be inf ected with his spirits. Imagine that, one hotel manager is depressed and how his employees will behave? His pessimism has the effect of depressing everyone around him because he is the leader the employment model of the followers.