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A leader is only as good as his people. And this is yet another article doing disservice to all the people working at Apple. Steve might have given the directio
by educar 10y ago
A leader is only as good as his people. And this is yet another article doing disservice to all the people working at Apple. Steve might have given the direction but he was hardly responsible for every idea that came out of Apple. The logic goes like - if something good happened, it was steve's genius. If something bad happened, it was despite his genius. For the last 4 years, Tim has been managing the company and growing it incredibly well.
Next what sundar is personally responsible for the really silly notes app that came out recently (I even forgot it's name)?
- ThomPete 10y agoApples problem is not the lack of ideas or talent, but the lack of an ability to prioritize which ones to focus on. That was Steves talent, thats what they are lacking today.
- charlesism 10y agoIt also doesn't do great things for morale if you don't believe in the direction your company is taking. The smartest employees in the world aren't much use if they burn out.
- educar 10y agoI don't doubt that. I am sure priorities can be set by one man. But the article talks about he is the main driver for simplicity in the products. Which is an design/engineering outcome. I think the simplicity of apple products is the work of lots of people and not one man.
- ThomPete 10y agoHe was the main recognizer of it's value to build products which were easy to sell. It's hard to find many other CEO's who were so articulate as to why they believed what they did would work and turned out to be right. He was wrong about many things too, but if it wasn't for him apples wouldn't have made the product choices they did despite what everyone else was doing.
- digi_owl 10y agoNot so much as talent, as him narcissistically using himself as the yardstick for "end user". Supposedly the iPod shipped with a idiosyncratic equalizer default tuned to Jobs ears.
- ThomPete 10y agoNarcissism is a perfectly normal part of having a talent.