The tyrannical "work your employees hard and don't accept anything less than perfection" approach has worked extremely well for Apple for many years. Sure, obviously Tim is not Steve and he has a different management style. But should this really extend to letting employees slack around and goof off?
I understand that he's trying to replicate the Google model here, but the danger is that you end up like Google ... a giant that has a great internal culture, and makes a couple of great products - but also a whole lot of crappy ones.
I worry that Apple's post-Steve decline is really starting to set in. Perhaps it is inevitable? Is it unfair to blame Tim?
Wow translating this article into Tim allowing employees to slack and goof off is quite a stretch isn't it? How about he's trying to foster more creativity and collaboration rather than these fiefdoms that Steve promoted.
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If Apple's new plans are not newsworthy on an Apple news/rumors site, I don't know what is besides product launches and company statements.
I'm saying it's not newsworthy because it's probably not something new. I have a hard time believing no one at Apple has ever done this before. Seems to me there's a meme the media is pushing with Apple these days and this story fits nicely into that meme. Just like these former employees that are crawling out of the woodwork to get there 10 minutes of fame claiming Apple is doomed under Tim Cook, they don't innovate, Scott Forstall shouldn't have been fired, Steve Jobs was God, etc. it's all quite laughable really.