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Title: Steve Jobs right up there with Edison and Ford
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URL Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo ... dison-and-ford/article2142673/
Published: Aug 27, 2011
Author: david ebner
Post Date: 2011-08-27 04:50:58 by Tatarewicz
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In January, 2007, while unveiling the iPhone, Steve Jobs encapsulated how he ran Apple Inc. “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love,” Mr. Jobs told the assembled faithful at the annual Macworld gathering in San Francisco. “ ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple, since the very, very beginning. And we always will.” Mr. Jobs is the great industrialist of the modern era, whose 3 1/2 decades in the computing business has placed him in a pantheon of ambitious innovators. The celebrations of his career, as he retires as Apple CEO this week because of deteriorating health, put him in the ranks of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney, individuals driven by a singular conviction in their own vision. That doesn’t make him the most fun boss to work for, however. “Steve Jobs’s management style is not likely to be touted in most leadership books,” noted Stanford University business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer in January. Mr. Jobs never considered himself a mere manager, though, but a leader. Worst boss ever I’m Steve Jobs and you’re not Tales of Mr. Jobs’s tantrums are legendary. Detailed-orientated and micromanaging do not even begin to describe his style. His conviction in himself is perhaps best illustrated in fiction. The main character in A Regular Guy, the third novel from Mona Simpson, the biological younger sister of Mr. Jobs (who was given up for adoption when he was born), is a millionaire entrepreneur. Ms. Simpson’s main character – highlighted in an Esquire profile last year – is a man with “this inability, not just to pander, but to see any need to pander to the wishes and whims of other people.” ‘Being Steved’ Mr. Pfeffer, in his January piece for Harvard Business Review, related the story of an Apple manager who had been temporarily fired, “being Steved” as it’s known at the company. The executive was cleaning out his office when Mr. Jobs came by and wondered what was happening. He took it all back: “I didn’t really mean it,” Mr. Jobs told the man. “I was just upset. You’re rehired.” Best boss ever Shades of yellow Steve Jobs cares. Even as he is slagged for being a micromanager, he is praised for the passion that underpins his eye for even the tiniest fragment of a much-bigger picture. Vic Gundotra, a senior Google engineer, remembered a call from Mr. Jobs one Sunday. The Google logo was coming up funny on the iPhone and Mr. Jobs wanted it fixed, telling Mr. Gundotra: “The second O in Google doesn’t have the right yellow gradient.” Mr. Gundotra smiled at the memory in a Google+ post on Wednesday night. “It was a lesson I’ll never forget. CEOs should care about details. Even shades of yellow. On a Sunday.” Shades of green In the calculus of capitalism, the best boss award goes to the person with the most money. And Apple is a money-printing machine. It booked a $7.3-billion (U.S.) profit in the April, May and June quarter. Profits have grown rapidly under Mr. Jobs’s watch, results that make him “the best CEO of this generation,” according to The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal. Who are you? Mr. Jobs didn’t always hit home runs. After being ousted from Apple in the mid-1980s, he struggled with various efforts – NeXT Computer was aimed at big business. The key lesson Mr. Jobs learned was that he was a consumer products guy, according to Jay Elliot, an Apple executive in the 1980s whose book The Steve Jobs Way came out this year. “It’s all about the product, down to how it looks when you open the box,” said Mr. Elliot in an interview on Thursday. Gut instincts and stoking argument Mr. Jobs has hired more than 5,000 people in his time, assembling an all-star team at Apple HQ, including the likes of Jonathan Ive, the company’s brilliant lead industrial designer. Mr. Jobs, in a February, 2008, interview with Fortune magazine while on holiday in Hawaii, said the key to hires is that they love the company, devote themselves to it – but he also noted that hiring is art, not science. “In the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut,” Mr. Jobs said. And the man does believe in collaboration. “When a good idea comes,” he told Fortune, “part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it ... and, you know, just explore things.”
Insightful but sadly likely true for all of us cartoon: www1.chinadaily.com.cn/op...8/27/content_13201937.htm
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Machinations Steve Jobs definitely does not deserve to be compared to Edison or Ford. First, Edison was a thief. Most of his advances were Tesla's ideas. Second, Jobs never actually *invented* anything. The thing Jobs should be known for is how to completely enrapture the media so that they ignore all the negative points about your overpriced products, instead focusing on 'cool and sexy'. Cool and sexy, IT is not. iCrap is going to make ZERO inroads into corporate departments, and a lot of so-called 'tech' analysts should be ashamed of themselves. RobM7 10:43 AM on August 26, 2011 What are you talking about? The online content distribution business model was made possible by SJ. No one else could have made it work. Anyone else who tried just got dogpiled like napster. But it's not over. SJ thinks long term and this is just the beginning. The future apple business model will have at it's core: 1) massive vertical integration, from hardware design to the retail outlet, better than walmart's 2) a cloud based framework that is basically a second internet just for apple's use. 3) exclusive content deals you "just can't refuse" 4) a first class interface ubiquitous across different platforms and devices 5) a gated user experience providing unparalleled quality control and consistency In a lesser company this would just be marks on a checklist but with apple you know they will use this to make something that's MUCH MORE that the sum of it's parts. Once the pieces are all assembled it will make the invention of mass production seem parochial and short sighted. It will be a monster. AF514 Moron, Steve Jobs and Wozniak invented the pc and the mouse! Many of you keep conflicting Microsoft with the PC....Microsoft make the software...Jobs pioneered the hardware... James123 Edison and Ford were part of the second wave (industrial revolution) following the first (agricultural). Jobs and Gates are part of the third wave (technological revolution) ...and yes Apple was the first PC...only reason everything is IBM compatible than Apple compatible today is due to Apple's protectionism in the past that also allowed MicroSoft to emerge. Af514, Maybe you are just too young to remember it, but there was PC's look before Apple, what do you think Gates used to learn how to write software. And it was Wozniak who invented the parts, to enhance and make a consumer product from a computer he was given, because his employer saw no future in it. Steve Jobs was the marketing man, and just like today where he has the media praising him like a god, that is what he has always done. UsetobeAMatssFan The first mouse and graphical UIs were invented at Xerox Park, not by Jobs/Wozniak and at the time thought to be useless toys by the major IT players. Jobs/Woz were smart enough to exploit it. Jobs is an amazing magician and spin master, that he has made so many fanboys who are absolutely locked into his products, software, business and revenue stream, with no options whatsoever. That... is his legacy folks! RobM7, I think you nailed on the head, what we are seeing is just the beginning. While the PC and Blackberry fanboys and girls belittle what Jobs did over the years, Apple products have set the standard. I made the switch to Mac after being fed of being Microsoft's unpaid beta tester and using cheaply constructed computers. What Jobs really cared about was design and that goes for all the products, business strategies and even the launches. It does not hit the shelves until it's perfect credo should be adapted by more companies, RIM comes to mind with that with Playbook. Falstaff Out of my comfort zone when it comes to these tech discussions. What I do know is that it seems to me every time Apple comes out with a new product or business model (even if it existed in some form already), they redefine it. And then EVERY other company in the game fall over themselves to duplicate it. We won't know for some time what history thinks of Steve Jobs. The posters claiming he's just a glorified salesman do seem naive; he's more than that, methinks, but we'll see. Ibrahim Khider Umm, you mean Steve Wozniak, and the other engineers and product development people who made/invented the product. Jobs is the smooth operator, but it's the Woz and crew who made the stuff. Not to mention the people behind BSD and GNU/Linux, which is what the Apple OS is based on. See Pirates of Silicon Valley, "good artists copy, great artists steal." The real product at Apple is not the computers though, it is the marketing. Per Arvidson A brilliant amalgamater. Without Wozniak he couldn't have enjoyed so much success. But his prime skill to me is all about his uncanny eye for picking out the bright ones and the bright ideas, so there you go. A genius for the ages without a doubt in my mind.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955 - will he see 2012 ? He probably will be right there with Edison and Ford - sooner than later.
When the SHTF my prayer will go something like: "give us this day our daily fed" --
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Pancreatic cancer and a liver replacement a couple years ago. It's remarkable he's still alive.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Jobs might not have gotten into this pickle if he or others with his genius and determination were working in the field of cancer cause and treatment.
Such a horrible statement of fact considering who Edison the thief and Ford the slave driver were. Not exactly men of merit... Although if you took a poker to me I'd rather be compared to Ford then Edison.
Once everyone finds out that iPhones and iPads are killing them just like they are killing Jobs, no one will think of him as a genius anymore.
God is always good!
This ain't the 80s dude. Technology evolves.
Exactly what did your statement have to do with my comment?
God is always good!
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Seems to me this has more to do with the content of the curriculum and how the material is presented. If you were presented with an explanation of how the thought/sight of a sexy female releases a molecule from the brain's pituitary causing a hormonal cascade that rushes blood to the penis...I don't think you'd find that boring.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Studies indicate they do. But stupid me just can't seem to put my iPhone down! I am addicted to the dang thing. Some iPads can use 3G even Wifi isn't that healthy for you.
God is always good!
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Slick Willie has a case of the Skinnies too.
I saw an article where he said he went veggie ! EDIT: Maybe if Clinton gets to do a little time - Some other guy named Bubba can put some meat in his diet !
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#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
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Steve Jobs right up there with Edison and Ford
#3. To: noone222 (#2)
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#4. To: Eric Stratton (#3)
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
#6. To: Dakmar (#4)
#7. To: Eric Stratton (#6)
#8. To: Tatarewicz (#1)
Steve Jobs right up there with Edison and Ford
#9. To: Dakmar (#4)
Pancreatic cancer and a liver replacement a couple years ago. It's remarkable he's still alive.
#10. To: RickyJ (#9)
Once everyone finds out that iPhones and iPads are killing them just like they are killing Jobs, no one will think of him as a genius anymore.
#11. To: titorite (#10)
This ain't the 80s dude. Technology evolves.
#12. To: Tatarewicz (#7)
#13. To: titorite (#8)
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#14. To: RickyJ (#9)
#15. To: Eric Stratton (#12)
Biology was my worst subject in high school,
#16. To: Tatarewicz (#15)
#17. To: Tatarewicz (#15)
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#18. To: Eric Stratton (#14)
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Not sure what to believe on cell phones causing cancer.
#19. To: RickyJ (#18)
#20. To: noone222, 4 (#2)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/good_buy_hamptons_EgIwkZMIpgKJseWgfCSi9J
#21. To: Jethro Tull (#20)
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