Examples Of Steve Jobs In The Odyssey

Steve Jobs, the founder of the multi-billion dollar company Apple and was the flagship leader of Apple till his death, once said “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” What Steve Jobs is stating is that he isn’t an easy going boss but rather pushes the people under him to work even better than they are. A leader doesn’t have to be a ruthless, cold person, or a down-to-earth relatable guy, but rather somebody who can motivate, control, and attempt to steer their crew in the right path of success and prosperity, quite in the literal sense for Odysseus. Odysseus is the main character in Homer’s Epic, The Odyssey. Odysseus is a tactician who is known for

Circe, the sorceress that Odysseus meets on Aaea, tells Odysseus about the Sirens who “lure sailors to their destruction.” (Fitzgerald 782) Odysseus tells his men he should only listen to the Siren's voice and he would plug the sailors’ ears with wax so they would keep rowing. The plan ends up working and Odysseus gets his crew out with no casualties. The last example of Odysseus’s wit is with Scylla, a six headed monster and Charybdis, a whirlpool. Odysseus doesn’t tell his men what they are about to face because if he did the crew would get nervous and stop rowing. Odysseus also gets on the bow of the boat with a spear and readies himself for combat which is clever because he is further boosting his men’s morale. Despite Odysseus losing six of his men, they still got through. To conclude, Odysseus effectively uses wit and motivation to try to get his men back

The first evident part was at the island of Cicones, when Odysseus’s men plundered the town, they partied until dawn when the enemy horseback army came and killed half of Odysseus’s men. Another time when Odysseus loses control of his men is at Aeolia when the king Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds containing all the winds except the one Odysseus needed. When Odysseus set sailed, he didn’t tell his men what was in the bag, and they thought it was gold. When Odysseus reached Ithaca, his men opened the bag and it blew them off course back to Aeolia. Another instant of Odysseus’s lack of organization is when he left a man dead back at Aaea, in which Odysseus finds out about it in the Land of the Dead. Even though he did give the man a burial, it was careless of Odysseus not to do a headcount. The final instance of Odysseus’s lack of control was on the island of the Cattle. Odysseus was told by the blind prophet Tiresias to not eat the cattle, even though Odysseus men ate the cattle and all of his men ended up dying. To conclude, this shows that Odysseus lacks organization techniques and needed to learn to control his