Steve Jobs has become one of the most successful and creative men in the 21st century. He has not only lead a company who has changed the face of cell phones forever, but will always be remembered as such an intelligent man. Steve was born on February of 1995, in San Francisco, California. His biological parents Joanne and John, both University of Wisconsin graduates, gave him up for adoption unnamed.
When he was an infant, Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs and given the iconic name Steve Jobs. As a boy he and his father always would love to work on electronics out of their garage, show at such a young age Steve’s love for technology and insisting his confidence.
Even though Steve had been such an intelligent and innovative thinker,
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when he was in his youth he had trouble with formal schooling. He became a prankster in the fourth grade and it got to the point where his teacher began bribing him to study. Despite the problems he tested so well the school wanted to skip him straight to High School, but his parents refused. Steve met one of the most important men in his life, his future business partner, Steve Wazniak while enrolled at Homestead High School in 1971.
Wazniak would say the reason he and Jobs clicked so well was that, in that time no one really had an understanding on what the computer chip was or could do.
After High School, Steve enrolled in College, but dropped out after only six months. In 1976, when Steve was only 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple in Jobs garage. In order to afford everything they needed to begin, Jobs had to sell his Volkswagen, while Wazniak sold his favorite scientific
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calculator. Over the next couple of years Apple had many ups and downs until Steve left the company to start his own software, which eventually flopped. Apple bought NeXT and the following year named Steve Jobs Apples CEO. In 2003 Jobs discovered he had a rare form of Pancreatic Cancer and instead of immediately operating on it, he chose wait to try some other form of treatment. But in 2004 much to the relief of the Apple Board of Directors Steve underwent sugary to remove the cancer, and over the years revealed very little about his health to the public. Very little was known about Steve’s person life, he had a way of keeping it very secret. He was rumored to have a girlfriend and a daughter with her but Steve repeatedly denied these rumors. In 2009 he had dramatic weightless and the public began to fear his heath problems had returned but he said the reason was for a hormone imbalance and everything was fine. In October of 2001 the news was release that Steve Jobs had died after a near decade long fight with Pancreatic Cancer. The rumors became true that he had married his girlfriend of 15 years and had fathered a little girl with her. Steve has been credited with not only changing the face of cell phones but of almost every major technology trend in the last 15 years. So what is the definition of success? Is it just someone who’s named you can remember, or someone who has changed the face of the world forever? Either way Steve Jobs has done both of these things. From his creations like the Ipod, Ipad, and Iphone he will forever be remembered as one of the most successful men in our lifetime, starting out with nothing and rising to such a great and memorable role. I think you could attribute many interpersonal skills to Steve’s success over the years. Of course he will always be remembered for the great Keynote speeches he gave to introduce the next great Apple invention but to truly understand what made him great we need to look at more of the Interpersonal aspect of things. The major one looking back to our chapter five handbook is ability to know emotional intelligence and referring to Goffman the ability to wear many faces. Referring to the first skill I believed Steve possessed was thinking back to our handbook was emotional intelligence.
This is all about being able to recognize ones own and other peoples emotions. I think he showed this trait when not letting people know when he was first diagnosed with Cancer. Steve knew that if he was to share this news with the world not only would his emotions be thrown out of whack by all the follow up questions about him and everyone’s eyes taken off his work and put on him. He also feared that if people knew that they would begin to be afraid and take there money out of Apple stock and the company could plummet and harm his emotions even more.
The other skill I referred to was in Goffman, this idea that we all wear many faces and life is a stage. Steve is the poster child for wearing different faces; He was a businessman and entrepreneur to the public and that is all he ever let them see, showing this when we constantly denied the rumors of a romantic relationship and a daughter. And after his death we learn of his other face he wore, a loving husband and father at home, trying so hard to keep those two worlds separate to again being aware of emotional
intelligence. If I could have had to give any advice to this brilliant and skilled man I might have told him to divulge just some of his personal life. Just to make him seem more of a human and not just a living, breathing, company. Now I know he would not take this advice since he was so hard set in his ways to keep these two faces completely apart and only show the respective ones to the respective parties. But it could have been a nice to see Steve, as a loving man that he was instead of just the inventor we all knew him to be.
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Steve Jobs was born in Los Altos, California in 1955. After leaving college, he went to work as a video game designer for Atari. During his job, he renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. Together, they built their first computer in Job’s family garage. Soon later, Apple Corporation was established which was named by Job’s favorite fruit. As the Apple I, Apple II, and the Macintosh rolled out to the public, the company gained popularity thro...
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It was Steve Jobs who made Apple leave the garage and make leaps and bounds in the world of technology. Steve Wozniak made the first prototype, but it was Jobs who “saw the potential” in his computer and persuaded Wozniak to sell it (Peterson 106). Even though that first computer saw very little success, Jobs knew that Apple had potential and so released the Apple II. From the beginning Jobs knew what the consumers wanted, and where computers were going to take the world; he had a vision of the opportunities in technology and saw that Apple needed to move in a different direction. In 1984, one year before he left, Jobs finished the Macintosh computer system. He was pushed from his original computer design project, “the Lisa”, and then raced to release the Mac first, but the Lisa was released to the public first. Although the Lisa came out first, the Mac “[became] synonymous with Apple, mark[ing] a…revolution in…personal computing,” (Peterson 106).
Steve Jobs was born on February 25, 1955. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. Steve wasn’t happy at school in Mountain View so the family moved to Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher recalled that he was "something of a loner" and "always had a different way of looking at things". [www.apple-history.com]
Steve Jobs once said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do,” and he did just that. He was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California to Joanna Schieble and John Jandali, who were both unmarried at the time of Jobs’ birth. Joanna’s father did not agree with her being pregnant outside of marriage, so Joanna left before the baby was born and decided to put her newborn son up for adoption. John Jandali, the biological father, never had the chance to meet his son. Several years down the road, the couple married each other and had a daughter, Mona, who is now a successful writer. Paul and Clara Jobs married ten days after they first met and like most newlyweds, they both wanted children, but Clara had an ectopic pregnancy and could no longer bear children so they adopted the young boy shortly after. He is currently known to many people as the man who founded the iPhone and made life much easier. He created much more than just the iPhone, but his life was not always successful. He was adopted, a dropout, fired, and much more, but most importantly, he was an inventor
Steve Jobs was born on Feburary 24, 1995 in Green Bay Wisconsin. His biological mother put him up for adaptation, because she could not care for him and give him a good child hood. She requested that her son to be placed with a well-educated family. When Steve Jobs was growing up he Didn’t have any friends so he wandered to neighbors garages looking to learn more about electronics because a lot of them were engineers. Steve jobs liked fiddling with electronics so much that he spent his time after school at the packyard electronics company learning more in depth about how to make electronic devices. Steve jobs had a hard time focusing in class. Until his fourth grade teacher found a way to get him to focus in class it was by bribing him to do his work. That worked so well that the school recommended him to skip fifth grade and go straight to junior high. Steve jobs told his parents he did not like the school that he was going to, and wanted to change schools. Steve Jobs and his parents moved to silicon valley where there was a premiere school for electronics and technology. He found a friend when he was in high school that was a geek just like him, that friend was Stephen Woznick. Stephen Woznic...
“The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was an incredible businessman and the entrepreneur of Apple. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His birth parents were Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali but he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (Pollack/Belviso) Paul and Clara also adopted a girl named Patti Jobs. His birth parents also had another girl, Mona Simpson. Steve grew up in Plainview, California, which later would be known as Silicon Valley.
During senior year in high school, Jobs signed up for an electronics class taught by John McCollum. While in the class in 1969, Jobs met a man named Steve Wozniak, a former graduate of McCollum’s class. Like Jobs, Wozniak was a huge electronics “geek” and the two instantly bonded (Romain Moisescot).
On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Ronald G. Wayne founded a company called Apple Computer. In the following months, they assembled boards of Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage and sold them to independent computer dealers in the area. Wozniak was a genius in computers, but he could not market their product, raise money, or operate a business the way Jobs could. It was a perfect combination of skills of the two Steves.
Steve Jobs lived in close proximity to Stanford, allowing him to be engrained in the new tech hub of the United States, allowing him to meet tech-hippy people like himself. Thus, he was introduced to Steve Woznikak, a programmer who would assist jobs in creating Apple. The two college kids incorporated the company in Jobs’ garage in Los Altos, California. Even though Jobs had knack for internal innovation, he needed assistance to bring Apple to the forefront of the tech boom during the late 1970’s. Jobs had the mindset of a brilliant marketer and in my opinion (saw how technology could adapt through time and eventually change the way humans interact with each other); however, Jobs was very spiritual and at times lost touch with reality. To counter this ...
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." “Jobs's Zen-like ability to focus was accompanied by the related instinct to simplify things by zeroing in on their essence and eliminating unnecessary components. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," declared Apple's first marketing brochure. To see what that means, compare any Apple software with, say, Microsoft Word, which keeps getting uglier and more cluttered with non intuitive navigational ribbons and intrusive features. It is a reminder of the glory of Apple's quest for simplicity.” The article shines through Apple to stops on its founder. Although we easily lose topic from Jobs achievements to Apples achievements this article did well. It told the story of starting from selling home-brewed motherboards and ending with his death in 2011. It told the story of his odd ad campaigns and his well known for quotes. But the article studied on how Jobs kept everything together and was still known for his amazing leadership. Settling for only the best and nothing else was his key. Although most executives couldn't keep their employees attention for long enough to put this through their thick skulls, Jobs did it and did it
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955, and died on October 5, 2011. When Steve Jobs was born, he was put for adoption by his birth parents and was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. As a kid, Steve’s father showed him how to take apart and put back together electronics. Steve Jobs was a very smart and hardworking kid, that the administration even thought about skipping him ahead to high school, but his parents declined the offer. Steve attended Homestead High School, that’s where he meets his future partner Steve Wozniak.