Nice read and I guess the writer is correct. If you can deal with Jobs, there is probably no one out there who can intimidate you. However I would like to know what Forstall told him on how to meet with Jobs for the first time.
The world would be a much better place if we were all a little more Steve Jobs.
Cook has nowhere the focus or vision Jobs had.
You need a concept and vision to design.
I thought he was a great role model. As did his wife and kids I'm guessing.
In this forum, it is amazing at times that in one paragraph, Tim Cook gets so much bashing and Steve Jobs gets so much praise.
Do these Steve Jobs fans forget that Steve Jobs personally picked Mr Cook to be his successor? How in all respect for their idol, Steve Jobs, can they now think they know better?
Do they actually know what goes on behind the closed and locked doors at Apple Inc.
Do they actually know more than Steve Jobs knew?
Cant wait to see when these bright people build their own multi-billion company.
In this forum, it is amazing at times that in one paragraph, Tim Cook gets so much bashing and Steve Jobs gets so much praise.
Do these Steve Jobs fans forget that Steve Jobs personally picked Mr Cook to be his successor? How in all respect for their idol, Steve Jobs, can they now think they know better?
Do they actually know what goes on behind the closed and locked doors at Apple Inc.
Do they actually know more than Steve Jobs knew?
Cant wait to see when these bright people build their own multi-billion company.
The same Steve Jobs who said Tim isn't a product guy. He may be a CEO, but he's not a product guy.
He was a visionary tech leader, but come on Steve Jobs was far from a personal role model.
Really? He openly mentioned that Tim wasn't a product guy? Do you have a link.
Not questioning you but just curious - didn't think he would say something like that.
Thanks!
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I predict that a time will come when many of his practices as a manager will be taught, and that managers for many decades will try to find a way to distill the essence of the reasons behind his success, and that of his company.
Cook has nowhere the focus or vision Jobs had.
You need a concept and vision to design.
In this forum, it is amazing at times that in one paragraph, Tim Cook gets so much bashing and Steve Jobs gets so much praise.
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And you know this how, exactly?
actually, you have no idea, because you dont know either of them. youve probably never been in the same room with either man, let alone worked beside them to get an understanding of their work discipline. me, i dont believe a guy becomes CEO of the biggest, most profitable, most successful technology company in the history of the planet by not being focused.
Cook is not a product designer, nor does he need to be. few CEOs are designers, Jobs was an outlier. id be surprised if could you name any others w/o googling. most CEOs are operational, not product.
Let me comment to both of you at the same time. The genius of Jobs was not I have a idea so lets build it.
The genius was seeing pieces of other peoples ideas and even other products that have already been produced and envision a grand scheme of using those ideas and other products to design and build in a simplistic extension to use to enhance the human experience and our quality of life.
No he was far from a engineer but he could see into time and what could be.
Apple has lost that. That visionary skill that touches outside the "box".
Apple now follows the trends when they use to set the trend.
I'm just a old retired engineer but I know genius when I see it and it was Jobs.
If I understand what you are saying, and I'm not sure I do, it's that nobody else of the tens of thousand of people who work at Apple have any sense or vision. It was all just Steve commanding his people to create, otherwise they wouldn't have had a clue. I am skeptical of this kind of analysis, if for no other reason than it doesn't seem to be the formula at any other successful company.
Nobody seriously questions the genius of Jobs, but at the same time we know that he was hardly always right, and that he hardly did it alone. We don't actually know that Apple has lost anything but the rock star persona of Steve Jobs, for better and for worse.
In any case, truly successful companies can't be run as cults of personality, at least not forever. At some point either they've developed a culture of success, or not. I'd like to think Apple has, and it's way too soon to claim otherwise.
Yes, it took all those other people to make his genius work. He drove the vehicle and had it worked on until it was perfect.
And yes, a lot of misses and more we don't know about.
What really made Apple great was trendsetting products that were well engineered and top quality with great customer support.
That is where the success came from.
You're shortchanging the incredible marketing machine at Apple.
He was a visionary tech leader, but come on Steve Jobs was far from a personal role model.
...However, the OP mused about everyone being like Steve Jobs, which I think would be pretty terrible as Jobs had many personal issues and was, to be frank, an *******....
And you know this how?