a true leader
Steve Jobs developed his leadership skills after being fired from Apple. He became a successful leader after realizing his failures. In 1997, after returning to Apple, he became CEO and made Apple into a collaborative company. He led Apple as the biggest start-up. He was assertive but valued consensus. For three hours every week his team would talk about everything that they did on the project they were working on.
Jobs trusted that his employees would work hard and come through with their parts.
Jobs trusted that his employees would work hard and come through with their parts.
Walter Isaacson on steve jobs
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Lessons in Leadership from Steve Jobs. By Walter Isaacson, 2011.
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“He was a person of huge vision. But he was also a person that believed in the precise detail of every step. He was methodical and careful about everything - a perfectionist to the end.”
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walter isaacson on steve jobs
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high expectations
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Lessons in Leadership from Steve Jobs. By Walter Isaacson, 2011.
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"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be."
-Steve Jobs |
walter isaacson on steve jobs
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thought differently
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Lessons in Leadership from Steve Jobs. By Walter Isaacson, 2011.
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“When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
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steve jobs in 1994, Silicon valley historical society
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ask! and be willing to fail
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Steve Jobs Interview. Silicon Valley Historical Association, 1994.
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“The great Steve Jobs that we know today as maybe the world’s greatest CEO, certainly of our era, he learned a lot in those years in the wilderness.”
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steve jobs at d8: all things digital conference
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run by ideas
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D8: Steve Jobs Wall Street Journal Video. June 7, 2010.
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“He always looked at things from the perspective of what was the user’s experience going to be? But unlike a lot of people in product marketing in those days, who would go out and do consumer testing, asking people, 'What did they want?' Steve didn’t believe in that.”
-John Sculley "On the day Jobs unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Sciences asked him what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, ‘Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?' " -Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs |
steve jobs at d8: all things digital conference
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collaborative
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D8: Steve Jobs Wall Street Journal Video. June 7, 2010.
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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
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