Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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Hunt 10HLA-3rd 22 August 2012 Steve Jobs Annotated Bibliography Foroohar‚ Rana. "What Would Steve Do?" Time. Time‚ 27 Feb. 2012. Web. 06 Sept. 2012. . The article is about how Steve Jobs. changed technology with his innovative ideas and management skills. Also‚ on how Jobs was an exceptional leader in the business world. The article is reliable‚ since it is from Time magazine. The research is biased‚ since the author obviously shows favoritism towards Jobs. The author‚ Rana Foroohar‚ is a qualified
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Case: Steve Jobs of Apple‚ Inc. Google Image downloaded by drtravisperera@gmail.com Case Synopsis The Apple Computer Company is arguably one of the most innovative technology companies to emerge in the last three decades. Apple‚ Inc. is responsible for bringing to market such products as the Macintosh computer and laptop‚ iPod and iTunes‚ and most recently‚ the iPhone. The success of the company can be traced primarily to a single individual - founder‚ Steven Jobs. Jobs and his friend‚
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Visionary Steve Jobs By: Ed Velasquis October‚ 2012 I. Introduction A. My paper is about a leader in my field of study that helped revolutionize our current technological age. B. The Leader that I have chosen is Steve Jobs C. The purpose for this paper is to help me (and others who read it) learn more about what were Steve Jobs’ contributions and leadership skill-sets in the technology industry.
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Steve Jobs-Apple Case Study Analysis MBA 3C Muhammad Awais Shahid9/15/2014 Question#1: Explain how each of the five elements of our definition of leadership applies to Steve Jobs leading Apple. Answer: Leader/Follower: Steve Job in a leader follower relation always shows the attitude of being in charge. Everyone has to follow his instructions and do work according to his demands. Job paid full attention to details even to the minor things as according to him these things give competitive
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Devin Liggett October 25‚2012 Informative Speech Steve Jobs INTRODUCTION I. Open with Impact Who in this room owns or has owned any of these products? Just as I thought‚ the majority of you own at least one Apple product. Without these devices‚ our lives would be completely different. II. Connect with Audience I have an iPhone and I don’t know what I would do without it. It truly is the best phone I have ever had and because of multiple peoples’ creativity I am able to utilize it
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Bill Gates: Before Microsoft From his first business venture through his multi-billion dollar deals‚ Bill Gates has always been a ferocious and keen businessman. Bill Gates first started tinkering with computers when his high school‚ Lakeside Prep‚ wanted to acquaint its students with computers. In 1968 the school held a fund raiser to buy computer time on a DEC PDP-10 computer that was owned by General Electric. Lakeside was able to raise enough money for what they thought would be ample
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Steve Jobs‚ the late founder of Apple and Pixar‚ could captivate an audience when he spoke; his address to the graduates of Stanford’s 2005 class was no different. Jobs’s commencement address covered concepts ranging from love‚ to fate‚ to death‚ all of which were conveyed through three stories. The three stories’ overarching topic was that of happily living life by your own playbook. Jobs’s first allegory talked about fate and how everything happens for a reason; the second dealt with doing what
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able to explain and predict others’ behavior and job performance. Between‚ the big five model of personality is the most widely accepted way to classify personalities that has been proved by researchers. The big five model of personality categories traits into the dimensions of surgency‚ agreeableness‚ adjustment‚ conscientiousness‚ and openness to experience. Surgency consist of leadership and extraversion traits. The leader of Apple Inc.‚ Steve Jobs is a person in high surgency. People with high
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Bill Gates – Strategic Thinker & Leader? Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to explore the published work on strategic leadership in order to develop an inventory of qualities‚ skills and behaviours that define and explain the concept of strategic leadership. A full review of literature on this topic aims to shed light on this definition. Having discussed and defined this concept the report will then focus on Bill Gates‚ former CEO of the Microsoft Corporation‚ with the aim of
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