Steve Jobs
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected”. ~ Steve Jobs (“Steve Jobs”, Business Leader Profiles For Students). Quality does not have boundaries, it is an ongoing process. Steve Jobs exhibited this drive for excellence. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple: completely refined the route for technology with his ideas.
Steve Jobs showed competence in technology and electronics from a young age. During his high school years, Jobs often complained to his parents that the education in his school was not vigorous enough. As a result, his parents decided to move to Los Altos, California. While working on a school project in Los Altos, Jobs needed a few essential parts to complete
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Jobs announced that he had a treatable hormone imbalance. Despite this Jobs promised to be active at Apple while undergoing the treatment. However, a couple of weeks later he had to take a six-month leave from the company since his health issues were more drastic than they originally seemed. The COO Tim Cook took over the company while Jobs was absent. In April Jobs had to receive a liver transplant but, his healing was excellent and Jobs returned to Apple working part time. On January 11 he made a surprise appearance to unveil the iPad 2. Many reported that Jobs looked thin but, showed fervent. Jobs later passed away that same year on October 5, 2011, due to pancreatic cancer (“Steve Jobs”, Newsmakers). In April of 2005, Jobs was dubbed to the Time 100 magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2006, Jobs’ effort in his invasions also led Business 2.0 to name him the “fifth most important leader in business”. It addressed him being “easily the greatest marketer since P.T. Barnum”. No doubt Jobs’ had the vision of creativity, design, and style that no one could match (“Steve Jobs”, Newsmakers). Apple is still releasing new groundbreaking devices. A new series, the Apple watch consisting the function of a traditional watch incorporated with the capabilities of a smartphone has also been exhibited. Also, a movie, Steve Jobs in honor of Jobs was created in 2015 (“Steve Jobs”, Newsmakers). Apple still continues to progress in innovation, creativity and design. In spite of Steve Jobs’ passing, Apple still continued to be top in the tech industry while keeping Jobs’ legacy