Steve Jobs: Hero or Villain? Essay

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Culture of Ethics

Team-Building

The author of this report is to answer several questions for this exercise. The first question pertains to whether Steve Jobs, prolific late leader of Apple Corporation, was an ethical leader. Further, the author is to explain Steve Jobs was or was not an ethical leader. Further, the author is to answer to the question of whether or not the author is an acolyte or a rejecter and why the answer is one or the other. While Steve Jobs did blur some ethical and legal lines, he was a great leader for Apple and the author of this report is most certainly a rejecter in terms of gleaning onto the traits and aspects of others.

Steve Jobs is certainly one of the more prolific and notorious names in the history of industry, consumer electronics and computing right along with people like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Larry Ellison of Oracle. However, Steve was known for a couple of bad habits including the blurring of lines relating to patents and competition practices.
He was also not the most nicest man in the world per some of his former employees and colleagues. However, his adeptness in building a brand image and business in general are without compare a lot of the time as Apple has a firm, albeit small, place in the computer market and the literally dominate the MP3 player market putting even Microsoft offerings to shame (Baack, 2012).

For that reason, the answer about Mr. Jobs' ethics are a mixed bag and is not a clear-cut "yes" or "no." For that reason and because of the idea that everyone should rise and fall on their own genuine merit and self-attributes, the author of this report is a rejecter and not an acolyte. Admiring the qualities of a leader or other person is not an inherently bad idea but it can obviously be taken to extremes and not all habits should….....

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