Which one of my old research papers would you like to read?

[diceisgod]

I think the Jobs paper is by far the best. The guy was an animal, our kind of people, and I bet he still is. This was all written before the i-Pod came out

- Supposedly, Jobs had asked him if he (Sculley) wanted to spend the rest of his life selling sugared water or go with him (Jobs) and change the world. Now with Sculley onboard as the company’s president, Jobs was free to work with his Macintosh team. However, Jobs would later learn a bitter lesson about the difference between confidence and arrogance compliments of his newly hired president.

-For every employee on the Macintosh team that he befriended and praised, there was another employee outside the team that he would insult and berate. Jobs tried to make the Macintosh team believe that they were superior to the rest of the people in the company. Jobs’s intention was to embolden them to help make the Mac a machine that would be ahead of its time. However, the divisiveness this strategy created in the company would turn out to be damaging and irreversible in the eyes of John Sculley and the board of directors of Apple.

- Jobs was growing more ill tempered and impatient with his employees. It was reported that during a company meeting Jobs had grown frustrated and told them that they were “bozos” and if they had any guts they would be out there designing their own computers (Carlton, 1997). It was getting to the point where everyone working at Apple was afraid to approach Jobs out of fear of being belittled. Not only did Jobs alienate himself from his employees but he alienated the entire company within the industry by ignoring the trends being set by his competitors.

-Jobs was hell-bent on making Apple the king of its field. He very well may have if he and his company hadn’t adopted the reclusive and elitist manner they did during the days of the Apple I, Apple II, and the Macintosh line of computers.

- Sculley had convinced the board of directors to remove Jobs from the Mac team and essentially take away all power Jobs had in the company. In 1985 Jobs sold most of his stock in Apple and resigned.

-In 1997, Apple, who was struggling financially, called upon NeXT Computers to help work on the Mac’s operating system. Apple wound up buying out NeXT and rehired Jobs to help turn the company around. Later that year Jobs announced that Microsoft had invested $150 million in Apple. Jobs would later help put Apple back on the map of the PC world with his “Think Different” promotion and the iMac. Jobs had come full circle but this time around he was ready.

He was ready! OH YES! He was fucking ready! AHHHH!!!

MUHAHAHAHAHAH!!