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Two things that stood-out: >"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M" and >"We would "throw them into the cauldron", and stir it, and
by kristopher 14y ago
Two things that stood-out:
>"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M"
and
>"We would "throw them into the cauldron", and stir it, and soon nobody remembered exactly whose ideas were which. This let us make a great soup, a great potion, without worrying about who had what idea. This was critically important, in retrospect, to decouple the CEO from the ideas."
- ErikAugust 14y ago"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M" Very interesting way to look at it.
- ricardobeat 14y agoThis second quote is part of what is now called design thinking and the "ideation" process. Take all input - no criticism allowed at this point - put everything on the table, and discuss as a group. It's very effective, generates more diverse ideas and prevents people from clinging to their own (I plead guilty).
- venus 14y ago> critically important, in retrospect, to decouple the CEO from the ideas And I wonder how critically important it was, also, that the mixing pot be attended in person, with spoken words the only ingredients allowed? If it's done by email, no-one forgets which idea was the CEO's.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI found the second one strange since I'd also read this, with my empasis added: "Well, just because he tells you that something is awful or great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow. You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually likes it, exactly one week later, __he'll come back to you and propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it.__" I thought Bud was surely exaggerating, until I observed Steve in action over the next few weeks. The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand. If one line of argument failed to persuade, he would deftly switch to another. Sometimes, he would throw you off balance by suddenly adopting your position as his own, without acknowledging that he ever thought differently. from: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distortion_Field.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Reality_Distortion_Fi...