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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in , was ousted in , returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in , and by the time he died, in October , had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.
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A version of this article appeared in the April issue of Harvard Business Review.
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The Key Leadership Skill that Steve Jobs and Ben Franklin Share
Look at your iPhone and imagine your apps are gone. Facebook, Uber, the Weather Channel, the Huffington Post, Scrabble, Google Maps, Kindle, Instagram, LinkedIn, White Noise, Bitmoji…. Apps you use all the time with barely a thought. If Steve Jobs had his way, they wouldn’t have existed.
This is according to Walter Isaacson, author of the biography Steve Jobs, speaking at the recent launch of the Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton. He said that Jobs had a powerful need to maintain end-to-end control, and when the iPhone came out, he wouldn’t allow any third-party apps. He viewed them as “polluting his product.”
The Apple management team kept standing up to him, according to Isaacson, saying “‘You’ve got to let people build apps on top of this.’ And finally he responded, ‘OK, you a-holes, if you think you’re so smart, so go ahead and do it.’”
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Lessons from Steve Jobs’ Biography: HCP or Collaborative Leader?
© By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
“Plays well with others,” would not be an expression that applied to Steve Jobs at any age. Yet he was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Computers, which has become the world’s most valuable company today. He was the driving force behind the world’s first widely successful anställda computer in the ’s (the Macintosh), as well as the iMac, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone and the iPad. And don’t forget that he was also the CEO of Pixar, the computer animation company that brought us Toy Story and many other great cartoon feature films, saving Disney and becoming its largest shareholder in the process.
In his best-selling biography, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson describes many of his unique qualities. But he also describes a man who was a real jerk – someone who might fit all the characteristics of a “high conflict person” (an HCP): an unchanging pattern of blaming others, all-or-nothing thinking,