Wired cover story highlights Steve Jobs' effect on tech leaders
Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the topic of Wired's August cover story as the popular publication investigates how the tech guru's management style affects industry leaders.
The story, titled "Am I Steve Jobs," offers lessons to be learned from the late Apple CEO's management style and samples heavily from Walter Isaacson's official biography "Steve Jobs," peppering in interviews with technology entrepreneurs and CEOs, reports Business Insider.
Despite having lost a long battle with pancreatic cancer in October of 2011, Jobs' legacy is still felt in the tech community as his innovative and sometimes aggressive leadership tactics continue to spark discussion.
In a recent interview, Isaacson noted that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg modeled his early management style after Jobs, an anecdote that is also seen in the author's biography. Zuckerberg reportedly looked up to Jobs and had a number of both professional and private interactions with him as Facebook began to morph into the de facto standard in social media.
Cover of Wired's August 2012 issue. | Source: Wired
The story, titled "Am I Steve Jobs," offers lessons to be learned from the late Apple CEO's management style and samples heavily from Walter Isaacson's official biography "Steve Jobs," peppering in interviews with technology entrepreneurs and CEOs, reports Business Insider.
Despite having lost a long battle with pancreatic cancer in October of 2011, Jobs' legacy is still felt in the tech community as his innovative and sometimes aggressive leadership tactics continue to spark discussion.
In a recent interview, Isaacson noted that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg modeled his early management style after Jobs, an anecdote that is also seen in the author's biography. Zuckerberg reportedly looked up to Jobs and had a number of both professional and private interactions with him as Facebook began to morph into the de facto standard in social media.
Cover of Wired's August 2012 issue. | Source: Wired
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He wasn't a jerk he always got what he wanted, no matter the consequences.
I'm sort of tired of the "look how bad Steve Jobs was" angle that ignores everything else.
Yeah, I saw that on the newsstand and thought about reading it. Has anyone read it?
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Yeah, I saw that on the newsstand and thought about reading it. Has anyone read it?
Just finished it. It's basically more Issacson stuff but with further anecdotes from other tech industry leaders and how Jobs shaped their thinking.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
I'm sort of tired of the "look how bad Steve Jobs was" angle that ignores everything else.
Yeah, he was mean at times but he was always right and everything he did was either perfect, or perfected later down the line.
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Originally Posted by logandigges
…he was always right…
Er…
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…everything he did was either perfect, or perfected later down the line.
I'll grant you that for the Cube/Mini, but there're quite a few other things he was dead wrong on.
Really. There are others out there. For some reason Steve is thought of as a total one of a kind person. Yet I believe there are others out there.
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[...] began to morph into the de facto social media network it is today.
somebody needs to look up 'de facto'.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Er…
I'll grant you that for the Cube/Mini, but there're quite a few other things he was dead wrong on.
At least his successes outweighed his failures when it was all said and done. Look at Ballmer for comparison.
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He wasn't a jerk he always got what he wanted, no matter the consequences.
Yeah, he was mean at times but he was always right and everything he did was either perfect, or perfected later down the line.
Methinks one should lighten up a bit.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
I'm sort of tired of the "look how bad Steve Jobs was" angle that ignores everything else.
Really????
You did notice the comments on the left side in yellow??? (uh, and the halo?)
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Originally Posted by logandigges
He wasn't a jerk he always got what he wanted, no matter the consequences.
... he wasn't a jerk, from some peoples point of view
and i would say most people would view him as a jerk after reading his biography
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and i would say most people would view him as a jerk after reading his biography
No matter what anyone says, the guy knew how to turn a buck.
Way over my head on the correct answer, was Steve a jerk or just ruthless/perfectionist?
It seems(just my opinion, no facts)... Ruthless seems to be a factor/characteristic for these top dog players. It's business, not personal.
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somebody needs to look up 'de facto'.
Perhaps you are the one that needs to look up the meaning of de facto. The AI article I read says: "...as Facebook began to morph into the de facto standard in social media," which sounds quite appropriate, and rather different from your quoted snippet.
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Really. There are others out there. For some reason Steve is thought of as a total one of a kind person. Yet I believe there are others out there.
So what's the big holdup?
Still waiting . . . since about 1977.
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Way over my head on the correct answer, was Steve a jerk or just ruthless/perfectionist?
Why not both. Not that it matters. He got the RESULTS.
I'm more than willing to give someone like that a pass. Easily. If only the industry were full of those like him. Imagine how much further evolved tech would be.
But instead we're cursed with clowns like Ballmer, whats-his-name running RIM, Elop, and that guy from Acer, among others.
Which is fine, because all you need to do is look toward Cupertino for that tall glass of ice-water in all this hell.
Meanwhile Ballmer simply outweighs .....