Characteristics of Business Leadership
Steven Jobs; Apple Computer Co
Born in 1955, the late Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman who is widely viewed as the inventor of the personal computer revolution in the contemporary world.Untill his death, Jobs was the co-founder and leader of Apple Inc Company. Jobs had previous working stints with Pixar Animation Studios as the chief executive officer and later served as a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, after his previous company, Pixar was acquired by Disney. Steve Jobs mainly ventured in the line of personal computer business. He was involved together with Steve Wozniak as the pioneers of the Apple II series, one of the earlier successful lines of personal computers in the late 1970s.Jobs was initially involved in this company as the director of the marketing and aesthetic wings of this company (General Books, 2010).
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