> Just imagine Apple without Steve Jobs Ironically, Steve Jobs is the best counterexample, IMHO. He took a failing company and propelled it to market leader, l

> Just imagine Apple without Steve Jobs Ironically, Steve Jobs is the best counterexample, IMHO. He took a failing company and propelled it to market leader, launching several great products (the iPod, iPhone, iPad; disclaimer: I'm not a particular Apple fan and don't own any of these devices, but I have to give credit where it's due). We'll see where Apple is going from now on, but my bet is they're never going to have huge hits like the iPhone again; instead, they'll just keep doing incremental updates of their current products. Another good example is Bill Gates. Regardless of the man's moral qualities (or lack thereof), he was great at running Microsoft. After Gates left, Ballmer has only been dropping the ball on everything except consoles. Apple and Google are slowly but surely taking Microsoft down (how many people own Windows Phones, versus Android or iPhones?). It may seem easy to keep a profitable company going as usual, but it's really hard to take a failing one or a startup and make it succeed.