It's important to know what a person admires, and why, and how fully they appreciate the strengths and flaws of those whom they admire. Any kind of blind admira

It's important to know what a person admires, and why, and how fully they appreciate the strengths and flaws of those whom they admire. Any kind of blind admiration is not a good sign. Certainly ascribing all of Jobs's ideas to other people from whom he copied them is a pretty good heuristic for ignoring people too. That said: I suspect Jobs's view of the anti-solicitation deal was not that he was lowering compensation (although no doubt it had this effect) but keeping employees focused on his projects. After all, being chased by headhunters is very distracting, and if the net effect is you get a great offer, a better counter-offer, and stay, as far as Jobs is concerned you've just wasted a bunch of his time.