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Steve Jobs?

• at-fates-hands 12y ago
  I was thinking him or Gates. Gates was famous for flogging his engineers in front of other staff members in meetings and telling them they didn't know what they were doing. Hard to say the constant questioning of ideas didn't make either company incredibly successful.
  • wavefunction 12y ago
    That's poor management technique. You flog someone in private and praise them in public.
  • bigtunacan 12y ago
    While Jobs is famed for his scathing treatment of employees in general, from everything I have seen Bill Gates was extremely technical and known for drilling employees on the technical issues in scheduled meetings that they knew to expect and prepare for. This is entirely different. There is a good recounting of just such an instance from Joel Spolsky here. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html