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| Oct 05, 2011 | Comments 4

Is there a better role model for the CEO of a corporation than Steve Jobs?

When you lead a company you aim to create a product or service of value to your customers, provide your employees a great place to work, and make money for your shareholders. You also don’t want to be evil.

Nobody did that better than Steve Jobs.

His passion for innovation pushed the boundaries of whole industries, as Apple relentlessly pursued the objective of making the best personal computers, portable music players, and mobile phones. On top of all that, he showed us the future of tablet computing, today.

The consumer always came first. The technology was complex, yet the user interface was simple. His products are works of art that truly make their owner’s lives richer.

By putting his customers first he also made many Apple shareholders rich. I know a guy who worked with Apple in the early 1980s who sold some of his shares to buy a car. In 1990 he was calling it his two hundred thousand dollar car. I’m sure he doesn’t want to think about what that stock would be worth today.

Steve Jobs created enormous shareholder wealth, much of it for his employees, but also for many ordinary Americans in their 401(k) accounts and pension plans. As demonstrators have recently started to march on Wall Street to protest against “corporate greed,” nobody is demonstrating at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA. If every CEO would be like Steve Jobs, Wall Street would probably not be occupied.

Apple is one of the good guys. It is what businesses should be – innovative, customer-driven, and fair-dealing. Values like these come from the top down. Steve Job’s real legacy may therefore not be his products or the wealth he created for so many, but as a role model for corporate leaders.

I can only aspire to be a fraction of the leader Steve Jobs was.

 

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  • ron

    he was horrible to his employees he would yell and scream and swear at them .he outsourced most of his work to places where children made his computers working 14 hours in hot sweat shops.he was never known to give 5 cents to charity and if every employee was treated the way steve jobs treated his employees zecco wouldnt be in business.he had employees spying on each other and since your zeccos ceo your employees seem happy and are very nice .if you decide to treat them like jobs treated his youll be the ceo and the and the auditor and the phone people and the maintennance man.can i get some free trades lolol

  • http://twitter.com/trevorkdennis Trevor Dennis

    Apparently Ron doesn’t understand “Think Different.” 

    Everything Mike said is true, and is accomplished by completely untraditional means. Overseas product production means more affordable products, and for every job shipped overseas there is a gainfully employed App Developer. 

    Jobs didn’t need to give to charity, and charity didn’t need him to give. He put the shareholders in a position to do their own philanthropy through his success and innovations. He made them rich after all. 

    Jobs didn’t treat employees badly, he treated them fairly, and demanded excellence. I expect the same of Zecco surely. Overpay and over expect. Apple employees work hard, and have a stride of excellence in everything they do, but much is expected of them in return. This sounds like the way America should work all the way around Ron. We need more contributors, and less of whatever you expect employees should be.

    Side Note: Apple products aren’t, haven’t been, and will most likely never be made in sweat shops. The employees older than children for sure, and can leave at any time. They work 9 to 12 hour days, and are paid competitively when compared with local establishments in those areas. For the record, Apple doesn’t even pay them or employ them; they pay a manufacturer that has nothing to do with Apple and that manufacturer is responsible for employee pay, safety, and rights. 

  • ron

    i am amazed at trevor dennis comments towards me.he defends steve jobs and claims apple didnt use child labor that they hired manufacturers that hired children.if you hire a hit man to do your deeds then you are placed in jail for murder.trevor dennis seems to thi nk the hiring of  companies using child labor dissolves steve jobs of any guilt.steve jobs was an egotistical nasty ,arrogant man who was agenius and comparing him to mother theresa is typical of hitlers apologists.trevor maybe you need to do some research before you make comments knowing nothing or maybe you make money in stocks that use child labor and its money in your pocket.dylan ratigan spoke about the evils of steve jobs and ill take his word over yours.

  • ron

    please look up the daily ticker about 16 hour days 70 cents an hour .its dated jan  20,2012.apple used a chinese company with child labor to make apple products.trevor dennis who supports steve jobs should read this .there will no longer be any doubt about steve jobs being an employer of slaves and an a total abuser of mankind.hesa hero to maybe the 1 per cent but a monster to all others trevor dennis you should be ashamed to be a steve jobs lover.people living in 15 by 15 cement rooms with 15 beds .maybe trevor u should try it.and apologise for jumping on me.love to all who loves kindness and caring and that will never be steve jobs or trevor dennis