#299 Steve Jobs
The less-famous history of an ultra-famous icon captures one person’s evolution toward this balance. During Steve Jobs’s first stint at Apple, he called his loonshot group working on the Mac “pirates” or “artists” (he saw himself, of course, as the ultimate pirate-artist). Jobs dismissed the group working on the Apple II franchise as “regular Navy.
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Steve Jobs is great at criticism. Arrogant and smart, he cuts to the heart of an issue with no wasted effort. In 1997, we used Apple as the “living case” in the UCLA Anderson MBA strategy course. I and several other faculty members met with Jobs to discuss Apple’s future prospects. “I know Stanford,” he said, “but I am not all that familiar with UC
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Having learned early in life that reality was falsely hemmed in by rules and compromises that people had been taught as children, Jobs had a much more aggressive idea of what was or wasn’t possible. To him, when you factored in vision and work ethic, much of life was malleable.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
