Does Tim Cook Maintain The RDF™ skill?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014


Based on his interview at All Things D, do you think Tim Cook maintains The Reality Distortion Field™ skill that Steve Jobs created?


 


[EDIT] Could a moderator please correct the spelling of Tim? One to many espressos this morning!

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    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member


    Hope they get the video up so I can answer this.




    He has a passion for Apple, and you can see it in earlier public offerings of his, but I don't know about RDF.

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    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,309moderator
    feynman wrote:
    Based on his interview at All Things D, do you think Tim Cook maintains The Reality Distortion Field™ skill that Steve Jobs created?

    He lives up to my expectation, so no. Thing is, at the conference he was almost being asked 'Tim, do you think you are a visionary?' by the dimwitted Kara (honestly, every year people ask that she's not involved and she still shows up) and I expect him to answer the same way any reasonably intelligent person would in that they can't answer the question. It shows through your work and your conversation.

    From his conversation, I see Tim as someone who understands and appreciates the way Apple works and being an operations guy has a motivation to make it happen efficiently. The fact that he doesn't override the quality in order to cut costs and ease manufacturing suggests that he has a respect for Apple's core values but I don't think he could have set that company up. He worked at IBM for 12 years on their personal computers and that made zero impact.

    I don't see this as a problem behind closed doors as the core team can easily push their technology forward. I do see it as an issue on the presentation side. Cook has a very strange way of wording things. In one presentation he said to a group, 'I'd like to welcome you to this room' and in the All Things D talk he said about not being able to describe what Steve taught him in 'a day, a week, maybe a month'. He spoke about Apple being his oxygen.

    It's all just really strange and his words are a little empty in a way that Steve's rarely were. Tim is not quote-worthy but you could take a phrase from pretty much any individual presentation of Steve's and it had merit on its own. The word that I rarey hear used about Steve is 'wise'. There are many people in history you could point to whose words were full of reasoning; reasoning that led to conclusions that made sense and were presented concisely. Steve was one of them.

    I think Tim is honest, sensible and has good values and that already places him above the vast majority of CEOs but if he stands up in front of a worldwide audience selling a new TV set that falls even a ball-hair short of awesome, I don't think it will fly. Distort reality he cannot.

    In all fairness, Steve lost this a little in recent years as the technology just started being incremental. There are fewer and fewer places left to go when you get a quad-core in your pants. There is less need for reality distortion and more need for delivery.
    feynman wrote:
    [EDIT] Could a moderator please correct the spelling of Tim? One to many espressos this morning!

    It doesn't have an edit function on the poll so Tiim it will have to be. You spelled 'to' wrong too btw.
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