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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by mentat on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:06PM (#17102528)
Can you clarify your point here? That Jobs shouldn't have listened to John?
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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by m0skit0 on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:10PM (#17102575)
Jobs could have made his point without shouting, i.e. being an asshole.
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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by ShabbosGoy on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:38PM (#17105465)
That’s not really as effective though. Sometimes you need to be an asshole to get your point across. Civility will make you look like a weakling and you will be continually passed on promotions.
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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by PhasmaFelis on Friday May 18, 2018 @11:16PM (#17106455)
> Sometimes you need to be an asshole to get your point across.

That's certainly what all the assholes claim.

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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by duncan_bayne on Saturday May 19, 2018 @07:08AM (#17107371)
They're right, too.

... if the people you're trying to make a point to are also all assholes, because the assholes are in charge, and have exclusively promoted assholes to leadership roles.

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