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I'm not so sure the problem with Microsoft was its toxic culture. So many of the key points in that article you could say ring true of Apple. Steve Jobs relishe
by jarjoura 7y ago
I'm not so sure the problem with Microsoft was its toxic culture. So many of the key points in that article you could say ring true of Apple. Steve Jobs relished in the fact that people feared him. He literally built an entire company of yes men, right down to the chefs in the kitchen. It meant, when his strategy was right, the company did well. However, when it was wrong, it also hurt the whole company.
Tim Cook is the opposite of that in every way. He delegates, he wants efficiency, he is much more conservative in where the products go. Yet the culture of yes still exists.
The answer to all of these big corporations is just we need different theories of management and apply them across the board. Fire those unwilling to play along and grow a culture of collaboration.
- gwbas1c 7y ago> Fire those unwilling to play along and grow a culture of collaboration Gosh that sounds like an oxymoron
- jagged-chisel 7y ago> Grow a culture of collaboration by firing those unwilling to play along I can see a misreading of the original. This is my understanding.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agoThe third word of that sentence is three letters too long.
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- pc86 7y agoIt means firing those who don't want collaboration - it's poorly worded by not necessarily oxymoronic.
- dwoozle 7y agoThe Jobs model works when you have a Jobs, or Gates, or Musk, someone whose inherent talent is so strong that the organization can look to him for all decisions. But the strategy for running a company in the long term cannot assume such a pope. If you have Michael Jordan on your basketball team your strategy can be “give him the ball” — if you are just five ordinary guys you will need a philosophy.
- dlp211 7y agoThat was distinctly not the philosophy of the Chicago Bulls and Phil Jackson.
- K0SM0S 7y ago"Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success" is a fantastic book that explains this at length. Great insight into champion mindsets.
- dwoozle 7y agoI’m talking about a pickup game of basketball with Michael Jordan on one team. That obviously doesn’t work when your opponents have 90% of the skill of Jordan.
- pm90 7y agoThis is exactly correct. Organizations that create dependency on such highly performing individuals can coast on their talent while they're around but once they're gone, its hard to replace them. Usually these uber-productive individuals are required and necessary during the early stages of a corporation where you literally need that kind of productivity to survive. Once an org matures though, there is no such requirement.
- bjornsing 7y agoOh yea? So at what point do you feel Apple had no more use for Steve?
- 7y ago
- zarro 7y agoYour angry because you think that he fires those that are unwilling to play along with what he thinks is "right", and you think the solution is to "Fire those unwilling to play along" with what you think is "right". If you don't see the irony in that your an idiot.