The Best Product? A Great Team
An exploration of the key elements and attributes necessary for constructing and sustaining high-performing teams, drawing insights from Steve Jobs, ARPA, and Xerox PARC.
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The Best Product? A Great Team
- The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying ot... See more
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
- But even though Jobs’s style could be demoralizing, it could also be oddly inspiring. It infused Apple employees with an abiding passion to create groundbreaking products and a belief that they could accomplish what seemed impossible. They had T-shirts made that read “90 hours a week and loving it!” Out of a fear of Jobs mixed with an incredibly st... See more
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