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Steve Jobs Named ‘CEO of the Decade’
- rooshdi 17y agoI agree, nobody has orchestrated the development of products people want this decade more than Steve. He deserves the praise as well as all those working for Apple.
- socratees 17y agoHe's one hell of a visionary, and he rightly deserves the praise.
- tvon 17y agoThe actual story: http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_de...
- hop 17y agoStarts here - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/steve_jobs/2009/index.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/steve_jobs/2009/index...
- tybris 17y agoThat seems fair, but I wonder whether in the long run the cult of personality surrounding him is good for Apple. His ultimate achievement as a CEO would be if he can translate his efforts into continuity.
- peoplerock 17y agoAs has been argued around the business web, Jobs' absence/incapacity for better part of a year - while Apple continued to develop dramatically better than the rest of the industry - may have been helpful as a demonstration of what the organization can do on its own.
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- oyving 17y agoMaybe, but one year you might not need the kind of complete change of direction that he managed to pull off earlier and which made the company what it is today. While Apple could probably be very successful with their current direction for quite some time, if the market changes under them the lack of Jobs might become more apparent.
- xal 17y agoSure, that requires Jobs. However, Apple has a pretty clear direction that Jobs established and If all that Apple does from now on is to keep the direction calibrated and keep the pace that he set then Apple will do very very well in the long run.
- 10ren 17y agoAnother data point is Jobs' absence from 1985 to 1997. The stock rose incredibly for 2 years ($2 to $14), then flat for 6 years, then fell for 4 years (to $3.4). It's utterly ridiculous to extrapolate from this, because so many other factors influence stock price and business performance - but it's more or less what you would expect of an organization supporting a brilliant leader, and is a tantalizingly similar data point with respect to Jobs presence. Note that it wasn't entirely plain sailing after the return of Jobs. http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=Logarithmic&chdeh=0&chdet=1257491171042&chddm=2926244&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:AAPL&ntsp=0 http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&... This has surely been discussed endlessly elsewhere, but I think it's impossible for an autocrat to cultivate an autocratic successor - why would Jobs put up with another autocrat (and why would the autocratic successor put up with him?) I think this is a slightly different angle from the "cult of personality" aspect.
- elblanco 17y agoHopefully the last example of his leaving is an aberration due to the circumstances. On top of that we have some lessons learned from the executives brought in post-Steve. e.g. the people who run a company should have some kind of understanding of the vertical. Looking at this recent absence, it looks like Apple and Steve has done the kind of continuity planning we'd all like to see.
- jasonwong 17y agoIsn't the question really, that if Steve's gone, will there be another breakout hit, like the iPod / iPhone, or will you just see more evolutionary products, like Microsoft does?
- elblanco 17y agoGood point. Apple's demonstrating that can continue to operate at a high level, but innovation like the iPod/Phone usually relies on one or two people in an entire organization.
- padmanabhan01 17y agoI don't think anyone else even comes close.
- motters 17y agoCEO of the century? CEO of the anthropocene? CEO of the universe?
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- watt 17y ago... of all Time! Of All Time!
- omouse 17y agoIt looks like eye-candy excuses tyranny...