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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Elison and Jeff Bezos each nurtured that sort of person (and were themselves that sort of person). They utterly steamrolled the ki
by xiaoma 10y ago
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Elison and Jeff Bezos each nurtured that sort of person (and were themselves that sort of person). They utterly steamrolled the kinder and gentler companies in their respective markets.
Sometimes reality and what you want to be true are not the same.
- astrodust 10y agoTheir personalities could not be more different. Their approach to business and life are completely orthogonal.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoYes and no. There is brilliance and there is "being a jerk" and you can be brilliant and not a jerk and the organization will thrive, or you can be brilliant and a jerk and the organization will be better off without you. When brilliant people are managed by strong managers, those that manage to team performance rather than those that manage to individual performance, they add value by not only doing a lot of work but helping everyone else do their best work. The problem occurs when a manager is weak and the brilliant person has 'jerk' tendencies which come out unchecked. Then everyone suffers. It is sort of like managing sociopaths, you can do it if you can set up the scoring for them such that they 'win' if the group wins. And of course that is easy to write but very hard to put into practice.