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Anyways, I doubt the management style of Mr. Jobs (that worked well in 80s and 90s with subsequent momentum) would work today.
by aborsy 6y ago
Anyways, I doubt the management style of Mr. Jobs (that worked well in 80s and 90s with subsequent momentum) would work today.
- astrange 6y agoIt didn't work so well for him either, he got fired. When he came back, he was different, because he'd gotten married. The terrible official biography of him actually notices that he was better the second time around and totally ignores it, but this is the reason.
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- MperorM 6y agoWhat other things were terrible about the biography? It's my favorite biography of all time. I'd love to know better what important parts were left out.
- someperson 6y agoIt's been a few years but I also found Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography to be terrible. I was looking for deeper analysis of what made Steve Jobs' tick, and how he approached building products. Walter Isaacson didn't have a technological understanding of Apple's products of the time, so I found his history pretty superficial. I learned much more about Steve Jobs approach from listening to the interviews he did over the years.
- astrange 6y agoIt doesn't enquire into anything technically, directly misquotes people (Bill Gates at one point says a disk drive has "too low latency"), ignores his wife, and seems to be really invested in embarrassing his kids. One of his sons Reed is quoted like three times and every time he's making a dick joke.
- approxim8ion 6y agoIt's well-written, but reads like fan fiction. Isaacson seems to be unable to separate himself from the "reality distortion field" he describes Jobs having.
- als0 6y agoSeemed to work well in the 2000s...
- thesausageking 6y agoTesla and SpaceX seem to be doing ok.