Tony Corneto and the irony of the Steve Jobs-laden slide deck
“Well, as Steve Jobs said…,” execs barking, and tales of workplace woe Continue Reading
Steve Jobs
Stop deifying Steve Jobs and other assholes. It clouds the picture of leadership.
You can be a good person and still scale a business. Thousands have done it. Maybe we should write more stories about them. Continue Reading
Senior management: Values the same, personalities different
Since almost the dawn of time, people have been trying to figure out the exact right combination of leaders/managers to make a company or idea successful. Extroverts? Introverts? Hard-chargers? Listeners? Etc. For almost the same amount of time, people have been breathlessly trying… Continue Reading
Why is it so fucking complicated for people to understand Apple’s success?
This is a weird little personal statistic, but I’ve been in about 20 conversations over the last six months where someone mentioned Apple (the company) and tried to explain their success, and basically got some of it right, but otherwise… Continue Reading
Here’s something that could kill the tech industry
We know two things somewhat conclusively in this argument: There are many people who believe San Francisco will someday become what Detroit has become (and is recovering from). 89 percent of the initial Fortune 500 doesn’t exist anymore. To quote Varsity Blues: “Things… Continue Reading
Start quoting Tim Cook in your presentations, ya prick
Tim Cook has apparently created as much value as Steve Jobs did since becoming Apple CEO — and of course, Cook did it while also dropping some less-than-secret personal contexts that make him stand out in the tech industry. In… Continue Reading