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At the end of the quarter, a lone HR person ran around like a Jack Russell, nipping at managers’ heels to get updated numbers before the board meeting.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Steve Jobs was a merely competent technician and, though highly intelligent, not a particularly original thinker. What made him exceptional were a ferocious will to succeed and a burning sense of epistemic curiosity. Jobs was interested in everything: the Bauhaus movement, the poetry of the beats, Eastern philosophy, the workings of business, the
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Morten T. Hansen, Joel M. Podolny • How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
At the time, Jobs owned 6.5 million shares of Apple stock, 11% of the company, worth more than $100 million. He began to sell his shares, and within five months had dumped them all, retaining only one share so he could attend shareholder meetings if he wanted. He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he
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is no one who admires your brilliance and vision more than I do,” Sculley began. He had uttered such flatteries before, but this time it was clear that there would be a brutal “but” punctuating the thought. And there was. “But this is really not going to work,” he declared. The flatteries punctured by “buts” continued. “We have developed a great
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Em 1995, quando Steve Jobs estava tentando nos convencer de que devíamos abrir nosso capital, um dos seus principais argumentos era que um dia faríamos um filme que seria um fracasso de bilheteria e precisávamos estar financeiramente preparados para esse dia. A abertura do capital nos daria recursos para financiar nossos projetos e para ter mais
... See moreEd Catmull • Criatividade S.A.: Superando as forças invisíveis que ficam no caminho da verdadeira inspiração (Portuguese Edition)
Macintosh had been an under-resourced research project, a prototype with no clear path to shipping. Steve saw it had a chance to be the future of the personal computer industry.
Max Chafkin • Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple
In order to institutionalize the lessons that he and his team were learning, Jobs started an in-house center called Apple University. He hired Joel Podolny, who was dean of the Yale School of Management, to compile a series of case studies analyzing important decisions the company had made, including the switch to the Intel microprocessor and the
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