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This article reads as if its from someone who has never worked for someone like Steve Jobs. I have once, and I worked with another for a long time. People are
by ethank 15y ago
This article reads as if its from someone who has never worked for someone like Steve Jobs. I have once, and I worked with another for a long time.
People are speaking as if Jobs was alone in his truculent and persnickety management style, and alone in using that to extract good things from the people around him while simultaneously pissing others off.
My view is that you need a balance of Jobs and Cooks to run a company. I've been very fortunate to work for one place that had this, and while difficult, it made me better.
EDIT: That being said, I worked for 30 year industry veterans in their fields and they were demanding but fair and well earned their ability to inspire through demand. I loathe to think of how many Steve Job's "taught me the ways" middle managers we'll see justifying being dicks because of honoring a legacy.
- pagekalisedown 15y agoEveryone SHOULD be concerned that a lot of Jobs wannabes will come out of all this idolatry. Instead of merely working for incompetents, our managers will also be dicks.
- badclient 15y agoMost people who seem to think there will be a lot of DICK Jobs wannabes are people focusing on Jobs' being a dick. There is a lot more to Jobs than his dickish personality. If you can't see beyond it and wanna fearmonger, you should take your own advise. As for non-dick SJ wannabes, hey why not? We're all wannabes to some extent.
- arctangent 15y agoI think they're suggesting that other managers shouldn't try to imitate him because more than likely they'll be unable to do it successfully. FTA: "It would be unfortunate if the remembrance of Jobs spawns a legion of Steve wannabes. Jobs, in geekspeak, was an 'N of 1.'"