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I remember at the peak of the Steve Jobs dynasty, I noticed several classmates who would try and act just like him while speaking in front of people (black swea
by TallGuyShort 12y ago
I remember at the peak of the Steve Jobs dynasty, I noticed several classmates who would try and act just like him while speaking in front of people (black sweaters and all), and they started being complete jerks to people who didn't have the same perceived creativity or vision that they had. They thought if they acted in the ways Jobs was famour for, maybe they'd inherit his brilliance...
- adwn 12y agoSounds like a cargo cult (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult).
- kstrauser 12y agoExactly this. I had a boss who read "Steve Jobs" and took away from it that treating employees like lazy, passive aggressive assholes was a good recipe for motivating them to make great things. Within a space of a particular month, the entire engineering team quit. The real lesson should've been that Jobs was brilliant to the point that people bought into his vision enough to put up with his bullshit. He succeeded in spite of his attitude, not because of it.