Thanks Sandeep. Completely agree with you. It'...

2011-11-11T06:37:16.131-05:00

Thanks Sandeep. Completely agree with you. It's difficult to keep the hype away.

I was getting ready for a showdown with you (when ...

2011-11-09T21:54:26.205-05:00

I was getting ready for a showdown with you (when we exchanged smses last night and you indicated that you were writing something on Steve) expecting you to write in support of Steve... As usual, I was wrong... and was happy that once again we were on the same page.

I finished reading his well-publicized biography last night... I concluded that he was just a mortal like you and me and not what people have made him out to be. Looking at his success over the last 25 years, he failed constantly with some bips of success but the packaging of successes were so great that we all were in awe of this man. You did point out in your post that he used to present others' ideas as his own but never allowed (and in most of the cases publicly humiliated) others for taking a leaf from his 'proprietary' ideas. One of his favorites was Bill Gates who actually saved him from extinction when he was on the brink of disappearance by investing in his company. In Bill Gates words, he was a 'super salesman' and nothing more. Towards the end of his life, he told one of his associates that he wanted to destroy Google and he would do that even if it costs him $ 60 billion because they copied his App Store idea. He took everything personally.

What I really liked about his working style, which his competitors, in the hindsight, also accept as a fair personal strategy, was 'Reality distortion field'. He used to force his team to believe that things can be done in a way he perceives and in the time frame he dictated. His team delivered most of the times. One takeaway from this is that if one has the will-power, anything is achievable.

As for his personality, well, I would never work for such a person. I am more like Steve Wozniak, his partner and the real brain behind Apple I and II, who is more 'child-like', clean at heart, does not bother about who gets the credit, and has his own sweet world to live in.

I just hope leaders don't learn anything wrong from Jobs although it looks quite tempting. He could carry it well (he did not even spare Obama and screwed him over a couple of meetings according to his Biographer)but I am not sure of the rest of us lesser mortals!

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Thanks Sandeep. Completely agree with you. It'...

I was getting ready for a showdown with you (when ...