He developed an interest in computers and engineering at a young age, inspired by his father's machinist job and love for electronics. Growing up south of Palo Alto, Jobs was bright beyond compare — his teachers wanted to skip him ahead several grades to high school, which his parents declined. In high school, Jobs met his future partner, Steve Wozniak, whom he bonded with over their love for electronics and computer chips.

1. STEVEN PAUL JOBS

2. ABOUT HIM
 Born: February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, US
 Died: October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, US
 Alma Mater: Reed College (dropped out)
 Occupation: Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc.
Co-founder and CEO, Pixar
Founder and CEO, NeXT Inc.
 Years active: 1974–2011 Net worth $US 8.3 billion (July
2010)
 Board member of The Walt Disney Company, Apple Inc.
 Religion: Zen Buddhism (previously Lutheran).
 Parents: Abdul Fattah "John" Jandali, Carole
Schieble.

3. EARLY LIFE
 At age of 5 years his father Paul taught him how to work on
electronics in home garage. As a result, he become interested
in electronics.
 Clara his mother taught him to read before went to school.
 He studied at Cupertino junior high school and homestead
high school. At homestead he met his friends BILL FERNANDEZ
and STEVE WOZNIAK, who was working on a little computer
board CREAM SODA .

4.  He developed an interest in computers and
engineering at a young age, inspired by his
father's machinist job and love for electronics.
Growing up south of Palo Alto, Jobs was bright
beyond compare — his teachers wanted to skip
him ahead several grades to high school, which
his parents declined. In high school, Jobs met his
future partner, Steve Wozniak, whom he bonded
with over their love for electronics and computer
chips.

5. EDUCATION
 Jobs went to Reed College in Portland
Oregon
 He studied Poetry, Literature, and
Physics
 After one semester, Jobs dropped out
of school, but still attended some
classes.
 For higher education they enrolled to
Reed college in Portland, in Oregon.
But he dropped out the college after
six months.
 They joined the creative classes and
done a course on calligraphy.

6. CAREER
EARLY WORK
 In 1972 Appointed as technician in Atari's inc.
 Job travelled to India in 1974 to visit Neem Karoli
Baba at Kainchi Ashram with his friend Daniel
Kottke.
 When Job returned to the US he got work to create
circuit board from Atari's Inc.

7. APPLE COMPUTER
 In 1976 Steve Job, Steve Wozniak
and Ronald Wayne formed Apple
Computers in his home garage.
 Wozniak designed and developed
the 1st computer of Apple
Computers Inc. with the name APPLE
1. And his friend Job decided to sell
the computer.
 In 1984 they come with new idea of
Apple 2.

8. THE FIRST APPLE COMPUTER

9.  They recruited the Mike Sculley as CEO
of Apple Computers who was serving as
CEO in Pepsi-Cola.
 Low sale caused disappointment among
the Job and Sculley which leads to
power struggle. In 1985 board of
directors decided to remove Jobs from
all roles of except chairman.

10. NEXT COMPUTER
 When Job forced out of Apple, they
formed a company Next Computer with
$7 million.
 Next Computer released a new product
called next station in 1990.
 In 1990 the revised second generation
next cube was released.
 In 1997 next was acquired by the Apple,
and the web objects are used by the
Apple.

11. PIXAR AND DISNEY
 In 1986 Job bought THE GRAPHICS
GROUP (later named as Pixar) from Lucas
Film Computer.
 In next 15 years the company produced
many box office hits .
 After the expiry of partnership agreement
with Disney, in 2005 Job found a new
partner BOB IGLER . Later they decided to
sell Pixar to Disney at $7.4 billion.

12. RETURN TO APPLE
 In 1996 apple announced to acquired the next
computer.
 The main purpose of the acquisition was to use
Next STEP to develop Mac OS.
 JOB returned to apple as consultant in 1997 and
on 4 July they announced as Interim CEO.
 After return to apple Job invented ipod, itunes,
istores, iphone, ipad.

13. INNOVATIONS AND
DESIGNS
 In 1974 they formed Apple Computer.
 In 1987 they formed Next Computer.
 I Mac.
 I Pod.
 I Phone.

14. RESIGNATION
 In August 2011 Job resigned as CEO of Apple, but
remained in the company as chairman of the
board.
 After the announcement the shares of apple
company dropped five percent, and in Walt
Disney company where Job served as director
the shares dropped 1.5 percent.

15. AWARDS AND HONOUR
 National Medal of Technology.
 Jefferson Award for public service.
 In 2007 Job was announced most powerful
businessman by the Fortune Magazine.
 In 2009 Job was elected as the most admired
entrepreneur in the survey by junior
achievements.
 In 2010 Job ranked was ranked no.17 in Forbes.

16. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
 Entrepreneur
 Inventor
 Marketer
 Innovator
 Visionary
 Motivator

17. HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE
Charismatic Leadership
 His charismatic leadership provided followers with
the inspiration and conviction about the company’s
vision. It also helped followers to identify more with
him on the emotional level.
 This emotional buy-in made the transactional
leadership side of Jobs that much more effective.
 Followers are more motivated to attain the
established goals because they believe in them
and in their ability to materialize them.
 His leadership style inspired the company to return
to its innovative roots. He shifted
 the focus to software, which led to development of
iTunes, and ultimately the very successful iPod.

18. Transformational Leadership
 Like a transformational leader, he focuses on "transforming"
others to help each other, to look out for each other, to be
encouraging and harmonious, and to look out for the
organization as a whole.
 At Apple, he is seen as a leader whose brilliance and idealistic
vision of "providing computers as a tool to change the world,"
drew other talented people to him
 His Leadership creates valuable and positive change in the
followers.
 In his leadership, he enhances the motivation, morale and
performance of his follower group. Some people also
categorize him as a charismatic leader.

19. HE WAS INSPIRED FROM
 Steve Jobs idolized Edwin Land (an
American scientist and inventor, best
known as the co-founder of the
Polaroid Corporation), and it's clear
he learned a lot from him.
 Like Jobs, Land dropped out of
college. Like Jobs, Land obsessed
about function and form. Like Jobs,
Land scoffed at the idea of "market
research." (Both men believed that
consumers don't know what they
want until they see it.)

20. HIS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
 If today was the last day of my life would I want to
do what I’m about to do today?”
 “Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone
else’s life.”
 I’m the only person I know who’s lost a quarter of
a billion dollars in one year…it’s very character
building.”
 “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a
follower.”

21. LESSONS FROM JOB’S LIFE
 Don’t Wait
 Make Your Own Reality
 Control Everything You Can
 Own Your Mistakes
 Know Yourself
 Don’t Hold Back
 Surround Yourself with Brilliance
 Build a Team of A Players
 Be Yourself
 Show Others the Way
 Trust Your Instincts
 Take Risks
 Follow Great with Great
 Live for Today