Steve jobs

The Smart Phone War.

A group 4 initiative

Hey guys……….k

• I am the great Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia ( connecting people).

• Graduated top of my class in computer engineering and management (both), and while I was in University I help lay 22 km Ethernet cable around the campus, mind it……….it was just a hobby.

• My career was a fairytale from the start , became the director of Lotus corporation in my twenties, CIO for Boston chicken,CEO for Macromedia. Joined Microsoft as the head of their biggest division, the office line of products. And now the CEO of Nokia, the biggest mobile company till 2012.

• You know its like everybody wants me, they just cant get enough.

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As if we care…………………………..

I am Steve Jobs and I don’t think I need an introduction.

• Dropped out of college, lived the life of a hippie for a year or two, took a vacation in India for a year. And then every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything………

One is very fortunate if you get to work on even one of these , I introduced a few of them

1984- Macintosh.1986-Pixar and Next.2001- iPod.2007-iPhone. 2010-iPad

Key Trait #1: You must have a vision

"You must stand for something, or you'll fall for everything.”

Standing firm when it comes to your company's policies and procedures is all well and good, but it doesn't speak to having a vision. As a leader, you have to learn to communicate your vision or the vision of your company to the people you want to follow you.

• Learn to paint a picture with words.

• Ask each of the other managers in your company to tell you, in their own words, about the vision of the company.

• As you work, your company's vision should be in your mind every day, and you should reevaluate it occasionally so that it stays current with the changing times in which we live.

Key Trait #2: You must have passion.

Your employees want passion; in fact, they'll go to the ends of earth because of it, live and die for it. Think of the sailors who traveled with Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson to explore uncharted territory. Their leaders' passion inspired them to take on new and very dangerous challenges.

To build an extraordinary management team, you've got to light the "fire in their bellies," to get them to feel passion about the company and connect to the leader's vision.

And passion is infectious: When you talk about your vision for the company, let your passion for your vision shine through.

Key Trait #3: You must learn to be a great decision maker.

How are major decisions made in your company? What is your process for making them? For instance, do you talk to your management team and create a list of pros and cons to help you make the best decision?

In fact, here's a system you can use to become a better decision maker. It's called the Q-CAT:• Q = Quick. Be quick but not hasty.• C = Committed. Be committed to your decision but not rigid.• A = Analytical. Be analytical, but don't over-analyze (Too much analysis can cause

paralysis.)• T = Thoughtful. Be thoughtful about all concerned, but don't be obsessive.

Key Trait #4: You must be a team builder.

• To become a great leader, you must develop a great team or, one might say, a well-oiled machine.

• When projects aren't on track or your team is falling behind on deadline, it serves no one if you start pointing fingers. This is when you need to rise to the occasion and inspire confidence in your employees, to let them know you support them and ready to help. Be ready to alter plans and make new ones. Don't forget to use humor to keep your team's spirits up during a crisis. When an emergency hits, your team will look to you to be a tower of strength and endurance.

Key Trait #5: You must have character.

• Without character, all the other "keys" are for naught. That's because your innate character strengths and limitations play a critical role in your leadership style. All great leaders have taken steps to learn about their individual personality and what part it plays in their leadership style.

• ”You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.”

• "It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do."

2007 vs 2012

Current position

• In 2007, Nokia was valued at €110 billion; as of May 2012, it was valued at €14.8 billion. [157]

• For fiscal Q2 2011 ending in June 2011, Nokia reported a net loss of €492 million, despite a €430 million payment from Apple. Nokia cited decline in its mobile phone business as the primary cause of the loss.[158]

• In Q1 2012 results were bleak. Nokia lost €1.34 billion. Revenue is down almost a third from a year ago.[159] By May 2012, Nokia share price had fallen 37.5 percent since the beginning of the year, and was down 61 percent in the last year.

Current Position

• Apple's rocket trip into the stock-market stratosphere took it to a lofty new height , when Apple's valuation briefly crossed the $600 billion mark.

• That's a milestone only one other company has ever achieved (Microsoft in 1999) .

• Despite its size, Apple is still one of the fastest growing technology companies. The company reported in January that its sales grew 73% last year. It also posted the second most profitable quarter in history for a U.S. company.

• One especially bullish analyst, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, thinks Apple could be the world's first $1 trillion company by 2014.

• Prithvi Ghag• Mohit Bhandari• Prashakha Saxena• Mohit Bohra• Aditya Tiwary• Priyanshi Verma• Swati Daruka

“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

~Steve Jobs

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R.I.P STEVE JOBS

A group 4 initiative