Focus is a pretty vague term. It feels like Jobs had a talent for recognizing and promoting good product ideas and for promoting talented people to management p

Focus is a pretty vague term. It feels like Jobs had a talent for recognizing and promoting good product ideas and for promoting talented people to management positions. The technical leadership hierarchy at Apple also never felt extremely deep, whereas at today’s Google nobody seems to know who makes product decisions, and there’s very little unified technical direction. (Or rather, this is what I’ve heard from multiple current and former Google folks.)