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That’s one of … 10 million CEOs? The vast majority of CEOs are not capable of this, Steve Jobs undoubtedly had lieutenants and plain engineers who did brilliant

by lumost 3y ago

That’s one of … 10 million CEOs? The vast majority of CEOs are not capable of this, Steve Jobs undoubtedly had lieutenants and plain engineers who did brilliant work under him. A long winded way to say that you are probably not working with Steve Jobs and regardless you need great employees to make a Steve Jobs successful.

WalterBright 3y ago
> regardless you need great employees to make a Steve Jobs successful A great CEO knows who to hire. > Steve Jobs undoubtedly had lieutenants and plain engineers who did brilliant work under him That didn't happen at random. Jobs also set them to work on the right things. When he took over Apple, he went through everything the company was doing and reoriented it all. Jobs saw opportunities that everyone else missed.
- klyrs 3y ago
  Similarly, Terrence Tao was taking university-level mathematics courses at age 9. Does that justify teaching all 9-year olds mathematics at that level?
  - sokoloff 3y ago
    No, but it does justify not legislating away the possibility to teach any of them at that level.
    - klyrs 3y ago
      That's stretching the analogy a bit; in today's economy, a great number of CEOs think that they deserve to be paid as if their impact was on par with Steve Jobs. If there were legislation to prevent a large Gini index at companies, Steve Jobs could have still been paid exorbitantly, if only his employee's compensation increased proportionally. And that's fair, because Steve Jobs wouldn't have gotten anywhere without excellent people to execute on his dreams.
      - sokoloff 3y ago
        I don’t think it’s particularly stretching the analogy, unless you think it would be appropriate that Terrence Tao could only be taught as he was if the lowest 9th grader would be taught Algebra II.
        klyrs 3y ago
        I'm having trouble making sense of what you're trying to say but note that Tao was 9 years old and not grade 9. Even I knew a kid in high school who was taking university classes.

by lumost 3y ago

WalterBright 3y ago

> regardless you need great employees to make a Steve Jobs successful A great CEO knows who to hire. > Steve Jobs undoubtedly had lieutenants and plain engineers who did brilliant work under him That didn't happen at random. Jobs also set them to work on the right things. When he took over Apple, he went through everything the company was doing and reoriented it all. Jobs saw opportunities that everyone else missed.

klyrs 3y ago
Similarly, Terrence Tao was taking university-level mathematics courses at age 9. Does that justify teaching all 9-year olds mathematics at that level?
- sokoloff 3y ago
  No, but it does justify not legislating away the possibility to teach any of them at that level.
  - klyrs 3y ago
    That's stretching the analogy a bit; in today's economy, a great number of CEOs think that they deserve to be paid as if their impact was on par with Steve Jobs. If there were legislation to prevent a large Gini index at companies, Steve Jobs could have still been paid exorbitantly, if only his employee's compensation increased proportionally. And that's fair, because Steve Jobs wouldn't have gotten anywhere without excellent people to execute on his dreams.
    - sokoloff 3y ago
      I don’t think it’s particularly stretching the analogy, unless you think it would be appropriate that Terrence Tao could only be taught as he was if the lowest 9th grader would be taught Algebra II.
      - klyrs 3y ago
        I'm having trouble making sense of what you're trying to say but note that Tao was 9 years old and not grade 9. Even I knew a kid in high school who was taking university classes.