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>To be provocative: No one ever fired someone too soon. how about when the board fired Steve Jobs? (Specifically, stripped him from all responsibilities, remo
by logicallee 9y ago
>To be provocative: No one ever fired someone too soon.
how about when the board fired Steve Jobs? (Specifically, stripped him from all responsibilities, removed him from the head of the mac division, gave him an office with nothing to do). No?
After all, he didn't code, was kind of a weirdo, and the board had every reason to have some doubts.
Was that a "wrong" decision?
- gm-conspiracy 9y agoThe Apple Newton and Pepsi tell us that answer.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoIt's really hard to imagine an early-90s Apple that Jobs wouldn't have left anyway - probably with high drama - if he hadn't been fired. But the Apple story makes the point - most CEOs are mediocre. Sculley and Amelio (and Spindler, whom almost everyone has forgotten) were all competent in their previous jobs, and usually also in subsequent jobs. But you don't want to settle for competence in the C-suite. You want outstanding - a genuine 10X CEO. There aren't many of those around. But there are plenty of 0.1X pretenders, and you'd better hope you don't end up hiring one, because no one will do more damage to a company.