Steve Jobs (L) and John Sculley, pictured in 1983 Photo: CAP/NFS
Posted on 08/31/2015 11:58:02 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Exclusive: The former Apple chief executive on Steve Jobs, the greatest current technology leaders and why Aaron Sorkin’s Jobs biopic will tell the truth about his and Jobs’ “amazing relationship”
It goes without saying that Steve Jobs is perhaps the most famous business leader of the century, if not of all time. The late co-founder of Apple has become a deified figure since his death in 2011 aged 56 from pancreatic cancer, with each new product launch incurring a rash of ‘What Would Steve Do?’ think pieces and endless comparisons with current chief executive Tim Cook. Any new malicious rumour is ferociously slapped down by Apple’s PR team, his office in the company’s Infinite Loop Californian headquarters remains untouched from the day he left it.
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NOT to take anything away from the Jobs legacy and his accomplishments with and/or without Apple but I think we live in a society where the culture is hard up for heroes.
A few warning signs of being involved in a cult.
* The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
* Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
* The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
* The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
* The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
“It goes without saying that Steve Jobs is perhaps the most famous business leader of the century, if not of all time.”
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Firestone, Edison, Westinghouse, Onassis, Rothschild, etc, ad nauseum,,
Sounds like the Trump brigades here on FR.
Oh,no,you didn’t!
It’s hard to properly represent someone who was equal parts genius and asshole.
You may be on to something!
From the open lines of the article. It goes without saying that Steve Jobs is perhaps the most famous business leader of the century, if not of all time.
While I liked the guy, it will be Steve Jobs who will eventually destroy Apple. They will be frozen, focused on “What would Sreve do?” so much they won’t see it when the ground changes under Apple’s feet.
I give him credit for what he did. Freaking genius that was, seriously. And then, he thought he could cure pancreatic cancer with cauliflower or something.
And then the next sentence says he has been deified after he died. Yes, deified, as in God.
They will need to move beyond that. Also just for mental health.
Leftists can be quite technically savvy...but absolute dimwits when it comes to essence of life by believing in failed theologies - from Godless leftism to the satanic world of the “tranny culture”.
Jobs was brilliant in choosing to maximize Gross Profit at the expense of Gross Sales and ignored market share. Pure Free Market Capitalism.
True of so many companies that have fallen from inventive prominence over the years,
IBM
HP
Sony
Xerox
Polaroid
It's difficult for a company, especially when it becomes successful, for it to change course and actually promote a product which at first may look destructive to the company's current product line and profits.
“It’s hard to properly represent someone who was equal parts genius and asshole.”
The two aspects have often gone together, throughout history.
I witnessed Jobs in action on two occasions. More asshole IMHO. BTW I also witnessed Dave Packard, Larry Ellison, Andy Grove and several other silicon valley big shots in action. I respect everyone of them more than Jobs.
Waz was my neighbor for a time. He is a great guy!
Interesting. Thanks for the post.
Jobs was a tough guy to work for.
Andy Grove at Intel was tough too.
Both were capable of learning from big mistakes.
Apple moving to Intel processors saved Apple.
Intel abandoning its original 64 bit plan and putting 64 bit into Pentium saved Intel.
Steve Jobs sure had that arrogant look down pat.
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