Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne then set up Apple computers. In the very beginning Apple computers were sold from Jobs parents' garage. Over the next few years, Apple computers expanded rapidly as the market for home computers began to become increasingly significant. Jobs died on October 5, 2011, due to pancreatic tumor and respiratory arrest (wikipedia.org).
Biography of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States -becoming the first African American to serve in that office -on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992.
During his first term, President Obama was able to work with Congress to improve the U.S. economy, pass health-care reform, and withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Still the President spent significant time and political effort negotiating, for the most part unsuccessfully, with Congressional Republicans about taxes, budgets, and the deficit. After winning reelection in 2012, Obama began his second term focused on immigration reform and gun control. (wikipedia.org).
The Use of Power and Influence.
Great leaders possess qualities that enable them to succeed, such as: Vision, proper communication skills, trust worthiness, emotional intelligence, power and influence. According to (Hughes; Ginnett & Curphy 2012), Power has been defined as "the capacity to produce effects on others or the potential to influence others. Influence can be defined as the change in a target agent's attitudes, values, beliefs or behaviours as the result of influence tactics.
Seneca articulated "He who has great power should use it lightly". Where does power come from? French and Raven developed the Taxonomy of Social Power to introduce five sources of power.
