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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
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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?
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.
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.
...he was always right...
Er...
Quote:
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.
[...] began to morph into the de facto social media network it is today.
somebody needs to look up 'de facto'.
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. ;)
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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He wasn't a jerk he always got what he wanted, no matter the consequences.