Every leader you love or hate is a jerk. You only call the ones you hate "jerks". If there was an accurate adjective for Steve Jobs, even those who adored him

Every leader you love or hate is a jerk. You only call the ones you hate "jerks". If there was an accurate adjective for Steve Jobs, even those who adored him would acknowledge that "jerk" is too kind of a descriptor. But he held onto more goodwill than this article's sacrificial lambs of Musk, Kalanick, Neumann, and Winterkorn. This "no brilliant jerks" reminds me a bit of the anti-bully sentiment. Real bullies are popular, socially calibrated and powerful. The condemnation of "bullies" is for leaping hate on social failures with the temerity to lash out at their betters.